https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89578
Bug ID: 89578
Summary: EDITING: spellcheck 2-word phrases where 1 word would
be wrong if found outside of the phrase
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.2.8.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Proposing an improvement to spellchecking: Legal and scholarly writing often
includes phrases in which one word is usually wrong unless paired with a
certain other word. The spell check should allow such phrases but not allow the
usually-wrong word if it's not in the phrase. Spaces could be hard or soft or
represented by line breaks. This is consistent with linguistics, which
recognizes that a word can have a space within it, because it is grammatically
treated like a word that has no internal space.
My hardware description is a guess.
Examples, some in U.S. law:
per se (but "se" alone would still be wrong)
voir dire (but "voir" alone would still be wrong)
stare decisis (but "decisis" alone would still be wrong)
inter alia (but "alia" alone would still be wrong)
Personal and two-word product names could be treated this way, too, especially
personal names (such as some in German and Dutch cultures) that include parts
with lower-case initials.
I think one approach to programming this would be to let spellchecking identify
a wrong word, then retest that word by pairing it with the preceding word to
see if it passes the two-word spell check, then, if that fails, retest that
wrong word by pairing it with the following word to see if it passes the
two-word spell check. Execution would be faster if, when a two-word phrase is
added to a dictionary, it's stored in a separate file; and that can be done
even though the two-word phrase would be added through the same user interface
as are single words. Another would be to include the likely-wrong word in the
standard dictionary but conditionally, by adding a flag or code to indicate
that it is correct only if a preceding word is also present and another flag to
indicate the same thing for a subsequent word.
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