[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143750] Missing or extra parentheses and/or quotation marks function no longer works in version 7.2.0.2.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143750

--- Comment #2 from Eek! A Bug. Kill it! <tarotfied at protonmail.com> ---
I did some more experimenting after reading your comments and discovered
something very interesting, if not downright odd.

I now realize that this issue is, at least in part, due to my unchecking the
“Check spelling as you type” option in: 

Tools > Options… > Language Settings > Writing Aids > Options.

NOTE: The same thing can be accomplished by simply turning off the “Toggle
Automatic Spell Checking (Shift+F7)” feature in the Standard Menu Bar. (So, why
have a duplicate feature with a different, albeit similar, name?)

I did this because of the nagging issue LO Writer has of auto-correcting text
that is in fact correct as typed; for example, computer code that is not
capitalized. Now, one would NOT think that this setting, the “Check spelling as
you type” setting, would have anything to do with the issue this bug report was
referring to, which is the “Check grammar as you type” setting, but I have just
tried numerous times and the grammar (e.g., incorrect capitalization,
missing/unpaired quotation marks, and the missing/unpaired parentheses)
functions do NOT work unless you also have the “Check spelling as you type”
setting checked. That is counterintuitive behavior because spelling and grammar
are two completely different subjects, which is why they presumably have two
separate check-boxes. Additionally, it makes little sense because there is only
a red squiggly underline associated with the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking”
icon in the Standard Menu Bar—not a blue squiggly underline paired with it. 

Example: I wrote the two sentences below with an extra, or missing, punctuation
mark. Note: I had both “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” and “Check spelling as
you type” turned off and the “Check grammar as you type” turned on. LO Writer
did NOT detect either grammatical error – not what one would expect after
turning the grammar checker on.

“Now is the time for all “good men and women” to come to the aid of their
country.

“Now is the time for all good men (and women)) to come to the aid of their
country.”

I then clicked the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” on the Standard Menu Bar
to turn it on and it then instantly detected the missing quotation mark in the
first sentence but failed to detect the extra, or unpaired, closing parentheses
in the second sentence. That is bizarre because both grammar checking functions
use the same checkbox (Parentheses) to invoke both functions (parentheses and
quotation marks). On the other hand, if you then turn “Check grammar as you
type” off, it does not detect either punctuation error – as expected.

The following is a related side note. If you try to check the checkbox for
“Check spelling as you type” when the “Toggle Automatic Spell Checking” is NOT
selected in the Standard Tool Bar, then when you press “Apply”, the Standard
Tool Bar will automatically switch to being selected – but the checkbox for
“Check spelling as you type” you just checked will flip back to being
unchecked. If you then either close the window, click the “Apply” button a
second time, or press “OK”, the two settings will sync back up together. This
rather odd behavior is counter-intuitive and unexpected.

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