On Tuesday 06 March 2007 23:45, Lars Aronsson wrote: > For example, after the 1996 spelling reform, a German > writer can prefer to adopt the new spelling Fotografie (with F, > rather than Ph), while declining to abandon ß.
"Daß" doesn't exist anymore in the new German spelling. Of course nobody can force you to use "dass", but mixing old and new spelling this way is unfortunate. Your point is valid though, as there are several words that have more than one correct spelling (e.g. Fotografie, Photografie, as you mentioned). The best way to control these spellings is probably using a grammar checker that can also return a useful description of the problem. Using e.g. LanguageTool (http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/) you could write an XML rule that complains about "Photo" and suggests "Foto". A grammar checker is also appropriate as many of the new spellings change whether a phrase if written as one or two words and this cannot be controlled by the spell checker. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
