I agree with this kid, it seems the only way to complain about misspelled words or poor grammar in the online help is through Issuezilla. At least this leaves a trail. The Aspell dictionary used by Linux seems to work much better.
I've filed issues about problems with misspellings and vague help topics, but they seem to be a low priority. Recently I filed an issue on the Spellchecker's Undo button not working...it has gone unnoticed for weeks. (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64146) And, there seems to be no project or way for the average Joe to help with cleaning up the online docs. At least you can help with the dictionaries: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/dictionary.html Tell the kid to make up a "modified wordlist" and submit it to Issuezilla. Working with this project has made me more aware of these problems...so I just keep filing issues. BTW, the Thesaurus is pretty bad, too. On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 20:12 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: > 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 > to the following email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Regards, Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net View my OOo tutorials and other references at: http://www.nostabo.net/openoffice.php ******************************************************************* PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the contact details noted herein. This e-mail sent via Evolution 2.4.2 running on a Linux 2.6.16 64 bit kernel.
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