https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56307
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 56307
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Grammar checker insists on em dash, inconsistent with
Auto-correct
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 3.6.2.2 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
LibreOffice Writer Auto-correct replaces [space][-][-][space] with
[space][en-dash][space].
However, the Grammar Checker underlines this in blue and offers replacement
with [em-dash] (no spaces).
This is a matter of style preference, but is inconsistent between two parts of
LibreOffice. What Auto-correct offers is actually for many people the
preferable style, but then the Grammar Checker marks it as wrong!
To quote Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash
"Various style guides and national varieties of languages prescribe different
guidance on dashes. Dashes have been cited as being treated differently in the
US and the UK, with the former preferring the use of an em-dash with no
additional spacing, and the latter preferring a spaced en-dash. As an example
of the US style, The Chicago Manual of Style still recommends unspaced
em-dashes. Style guides outside of the US are more variable. For example, the
Canadian The Elements of Typographic Style recommends the spaced en-dash – like
so – and argues that the length and visual magnitude of an em dash 'belongs to
the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.'" (There is more).
Ideally, there would be an *option* in the Grammar Checker to set the preferred
style. Could this be integrated across Auto-correct and Grammar Checker so that
the option is set once? This latter is less important, so long as there is a
way to avoid the Grammar Checker trying to enforce a style preference which is
not universally accepted, and many regard as outdated.
A user should not have to change their typographical style to avoid irritating
blue marks everywhere.
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