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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 30 02:50:53 -0800 
2006 -------
discoleo->fme

[QUOTE]
> One question: I had a first glance at your spec draft
> and saw that e.g., 'word start' and 'sentence start'
> should be user-definable. Why don't we just use the
> functionality provided by our i18n module, there are
> already functions like 'isBeginWord' and 'startOfSentence'.
> I guess this would work fine in most cases.

While this is true in many cases, there are two (common) situation, where this
will probably fail.

1. Some users may wish to case some text containing abbreviations, e.g.:
   - "This is e.g. an abbr. text" => we don't want the "an" and "text" to behave
like starting a new sentence
2. In some languages, a new sentence may start with a more specialized syntax:
   - dialogues in Romanian: "- This is a dialogue."
   - questions in Spanish: "?Should that be an inverted questionmark?"

There might be other situations where a user wishes that the sentence markers
are interpreted differently in his text and this customizing ability gives the
greatest flexibility. Everything is about having different choices for greatest
flexibility. But again, if there is no time to implement this, than I can live
with the provided functions (although with my solution, the code would be only
minimally more complex).

The second important point, I am NOT a programmer, it only happens that I know
some C++. And my problem is, that I have absolute no idea of OOo internals and
no time to learn it (by the way, I am also involved with 3 non-writer projects).
BUT issue 1601 is 5 years old and I would be very grateful if a developer takes
one or two afternoons and implements this. There were 15 votes for the issue
(and a number of dupes).

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