On Sunday April 23 2006 07:45 pm, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
This may show my ignorance, but where in the Writer's Guide are
there instructions on what can be done with the spellchecker? What are
the proper steps to create new user-defined dictionaries and edit the
dictionaries that already exist?
Hmm... I was sure this was in the Writer Guide, but I can't find
it either. I know I had written it up, because it's in my
O'Reilly book, but somehow it did not get into the Writer Guide.
This info should probably be put into either Ch 2 or Ch3, each of
which has some related information. Ch2 has setup info for the
spelling checker, so perhaps it would go best there, and be
cross-referenced from the part of Ch3 that talks about using the
spelling checker. Comments and opinions welcome as to the best
place for this info.
I think Rick answered your question about how to create
dictionaries. If not, I can post here a copy of what I have
written about creating, editing and using custom dictionaries,
including exception dictionaries (a very useful tool).
--Jean
I want to thank both you and Rick for your replies. I know how to add
user-defined dictionaries as I use three of them right now. One of them is
for terms for OOo, itself.
I looked in the Writer's Guide Chapters and did not find a good answer
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On Sunday April 23 2006 01:52 pm, Jon Williams wrote:
Hi OpenOffice.org, my name is Jon and I'm concerned with the accuracy,
flexability, and validity of the OpenOffice 2.0 spell checking and
dictionary system. I am a high school student and am constantly at work
on OpenOffice.org 2.0 doing projects, essays, reports, the works. From
all of them I have done, it seems there are very many errors and
mis-identifications in your dictionary and spell check system. I don't
recall the word, but I remember one time OpenOffice told me a word was
wrong (I think it was "neighborhood"?) and I had the spelling in a book
right in front of me. Additionally, there is also a lack of support for
scientific words, names of organisms, especially in Biology (one of my
classes). Next, there also seems to be VERY many errors with the plurals
and one-worded words which OpenOffice.org 2.0 wants to tell me are
supposed to be two-worded words.
I'd like to know, will this dictionary and spell check system by
revised, corrected, and worked on at all? I'm very concerned because
it's one of the two problems I have with OpenOffice.org (the other isn't
too big of a problem so nevermind that). So far, I absolutely love
OpenOffice 2.0 and see it as a full replacement to Microsoft Office
applications, keep up the great work!
Thank you for reading.
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