Hi Lars,

punctuation in most languages I know requires some grammar processing so it can be applied only by grammar checkers. For OpenOffice.org 2.x, you can try LanguageTool - there are some generic punctuation rules, and a good deal of Polish punctuation rules. Some English are there as well, and a serious package of Latvian rules is in preparation. If you'd like to help us with working on German, Swedish or English punctuation rules, we'd be happy :)

Best regards,
Marcin
PS. take a look at www.danielnaber.de/languagetool - but remember that the current version is in CVS.


Lars Aronsson napisał(a):
If I copy this( sentence )into OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 ,no errors are reported!!!!!!!!

I'd like to see red lines under the parentheses, comma and multiple exclamation marks. A more correct punctuation would be:

If I copy this (sentence) into OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, no errors are reported!!!

Are there any plans to include checking of whitespace and punctuation? Would that be part of spell checking, grammar checking, or something else? I have the default install, with no module for grammar checking included.

I have a secret theory that this could easily be included in a spell checker, but I have no running code to prove this. My experience is based only on English, German and Scandinavian languages, which all use the same rules for punctuation. I think French prefers whitespace before colon, and other languages probably have even more exotic rules. Somebody with a good overview of different languages should be able to design a general punctuation checker that can be configured for each language. This configuration could then be part of Hunspell's ".aff" file.



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