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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Oct 14 13:42:05 +0000 2010 ------- @mb2008: I would agree that this is more a level of a bug than an enhancement. It's more than a simple distraction; I edit a magazine, and the frequent false positives hinder my work flow. @mb2008: "A word added to a dictionary in lowercase should only be accepted as correct in lowercase EXCEPT at the beginning of a sentence/paragraph" That would make it difficult to use words that are capitalised for other reasons, e.g. the title of a book, in a heading, a company name, or a person's name (e.g. Grace is a common girl's name in various parts of the English-speaking world). Also, in English, words can be capitalised for several reasons, not just after a full stop (period) but also (for example) after a colon, a quotation mark, even a semi-colon, and of course on the start of every new line in a poem (frequently in the middle of a sentence). These days, there are also times when a sentence does *not* start with a capital letter, specifically funny proper nouns, e.g. "eBay made a profit in the first quarter." English is so flexible that you cannot make hard-and-fast rules. Putting in a rule to stop capitalisation in a sentence (or to force it at the start of a sentence) belongs to a grammar checker rather than a spell-checker. Which means we have to add a number 4: 4. Whenever you add a word with at least one lowercase letter, and at least one capital letter after the start, accept the word only exactly as typed unless subsequently added otherwise. E.g., eBay, CoL ("cost of living"). --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
