NAVIGATION: LT finds errors, but there’s no easy way to reach the errors. Either this is broken or it’s a requested feature. As an editor, I need to navigate large documents to find the spelling/grammar mistake in the document. It’s desired to click or link to something so I can reach the error.
SPELLING SUGGESTIONS: Although there are spelling suggestions, I must manually type them into the original Gdoc. I thought double clicking would automatically overwrite my typo, but nothing happens.
Once the analysis is done, you can click on any error message and the error in the text is selected. So it is very easy to reach the error. Isn’t it working for you? If your layout is complex (you have tables,etc.), it’s possible that it doesn’t work.
There is a limit for large documents, because of a server restriction. If your text is longer than 15000 characters, you need to select previously some part of the text.
Again, it should be very easy. If LanguageTool has a suggestion, just clicking on the suggestion (yellow buttons) should replace the error with the suggestion. Perhaps in documents with a complex layout it doesn’t work. Could you share some document with this problem?
Maybe we should add an icon for that? This feature is currently hidden and it’s also different from how the other add-ons work, so many users will probably not notice it.
I thought it was intuitive enough, but perhaps you are right. Any idea about what icon and where to place it? The interface is already a bit cluttered.
You can change the LT server in the options and use your own server. But it has to be an online server, not a local server, because a local server cannot be accessed from the Google servers where the add-on is executed.
To enable using a local LT server, the add-on should be re-written and some server-side code moved to client side.
Right! I’ve tested with another account and It works. Why doesn’t it work with my other account?
I’ve tested both accounts and it’s really strange that it works well with one and not another.
I clicked Allow in both accounts. I even tried to un-install and re-install clicking again Allow in the account that does not work.
Ok, thank you. It seems that the LanguageTool must access the doc text from the outside. I thought that the permissions given during the installation process were to avoid this “write access” thing