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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Feb 21 17:44:01 +0000 2009 ------- I began to read through my submitted spelling dictionary and noticed a couple of omissions. The words "antiquark" and "antilepton" both lack a plural entry. This is easily solved by adding /S to their entry in the word list. I am prepared to spend 7-10 days going through the word list, looking for such omissions, but wasn't sure what the status of the word list is. Is this something you intend to use, and if so, how much proofreading and checking is being done by others? If most of it isn't being used, then there is no rush for me to do anything. Second, I wanted to mention that the spelling checker can be enhanced by the Auto Correction feature in Open Office writer. It is very important for a published writer not to make mistakes. I read the "Wasteland" series by Stephen King, and in the third book he uses "for awhile" five times on facing pages. This is the sort of thing that makes one sit up. I can remember nothing else that was on those two pages, but years later still remember those five errors. "Awhile" is an adverb, so it cannot be the object of a preposition. Also "awhile" means "for a time" so saying "for awhile" is equivalent to saying "for for a time." The correct usage is the noun form, which is two words "a while," hence "for a while." Such mistakes are easily caught using Open Office Auto Correction, entry and replacement: "for awhile" "for a while" "after awhile" "after a while" "pointblank" "point-blank" "antisemitism" "anti-Semitism" This helps, since otherwise students may think that the omission of "pointblank" and "antisemitism" is a mistake. Note that Microsoft uses these two wrong entries, and Word Net usually goes along with Microsoft. This is typical Microsoft disregard of language, and professional writers do not endorse this. There are many other hyphenated words that can be included in the Auto Correction feature. I was often frustrated by not being able to include hyphenated words in the word list (though there are entries for "AK-47" and for "al-Qaeda"). Also I noticed that Hunspell does not catch very short accented words, such as "eclair" or "elan," which have acute accents over the E. The correctly accented word is in the dictionary, but Hunspell does not give it as a spelling suggestion. So use Auto Correction to make sure that such short accented words will be handled correctly. And have an entry for "deja vu" with all its accents. As it is, the Auto Correction feature is wasted. It functions exactly as in Microsoft Word, catching a few misspelled words, and this is better left to the spelling dictionary. Instead, the Auto Correction feature could become quite useful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
