Perry Spiller wrote:


An interesting quirk I noticed while reading some
of the chapters. It seems that "tool bar" has been
almost universally concatenated to "toolbar."

OO Writer dictionary regards "toolbar" as an invalid
word. I say that's the grammatically correct position
to take.

However, either the manuals should use "tool bar" or
the Writer dictionary should, by default, accept "toolbar."

The (English) "Style Guide for the OOo 2.0 User Guide" (see http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/resources/style_guide_v2.0.sxw/file_view) specifies "toolbar", which is likely why it's used that way consistently in OOoAuthors chapters. That form is also recognized by various "real" dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster, American Heritage, and Compact Oxford.

You could submit an issue to have this word added to the spelling dictionary (http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html). As a workaround, you could add "toolbar" to your local dictionary.

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Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com

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