https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160929
Bug ID: 160929
Summary: Per-document spelling dictionary/ignore list
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Feature request: an option to add words to be ignored by AutoSpellCheck (like
adding to the dictionary list) but are saved on a per-document basis.
The reason why: sometimes there are words that should be ignored by the
autospellcheck, but are used in special cases and thus shouldn't be added to
the system-wide dictionary. It becomes a hassle to the user to have to select
these words and specify "ignore all" every time the user opens the document.
Often times a user just ignores the auto-spell-check themselves, which leads to
other words getting ignored, misspellings of that same word getting missed, and
more.
Enabling an ignore list to be embedded into the file itself ensures that these
odd-cases are not permanently added to the standard dictionary file, but
enables the benefits of doing such for just that one document without impacting
all documents that a user handles.
Some realistic cases where this would be helpful:
-Writing fiction, especially for Fantasy and Sci-Fi. Such stories frequently
use character names and other elements that a user wouldn't consider "real" and
thus wouldn't want to add to the standard dictionary, but would show up
frequently within that one document.
-Writing about new products. New products often have unique names to make them
trademarkable, but it is not always in the interest of a company to add that
name permanently into their database of ignored words, such as when comparing
to other products or for companies that write reviews.
-Foreign names. Sometimes a foreign surname appears frequently within a single
document. The name may be close to another word, which makes it subject to
appearing as a typo. Or it may be a rarely used name that wouldn't be used
outside that document. Or it might be too foreign for a user to be certain
that the name is the "universally correct version," and does not want to risk
confusing the name with other variants in the future.
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