Paul B. wrote: > It seems from the responses here that the idea to generally accept
abbreviations is not workable. I guess my request then atrophies down to the mere not including the period when flagging an error. IOW, when flagging 'Jn.', only 'Jn' should be underlined, contrary to what now is. That would be consistent with the logic everyone has put forth on this thread. So unless someone chimes in with a brilliant way to differentiate abbreviations, this boils down to a minor bug report.
Paul
A work around, if you are concerned about missing a period after Jn, would be to do a find and replace when you are down searching for "Jn" with match case and whole word on and replace with "Jn."
HTH,
Thanks. I'm not much concerned with the accuracy of the spelling, it's just that I don't want to have to log all the permutations of Biblical (and other) abbreviations into the custom dictionary. The problem compounds itself when one considers all the spell checks one uses, and the possibility of losing a dictionary, which I've done with some OOo upgrades.
I wonder how accurate an algorithm would be that would pass any word of four (or maybe better, three) letters or less followed by a period followed by a capitalized word. Seems to me that would get pretty much down to it. The setting would be a sticky one on the spell check popup dialog.
In Thunderbird, I would like an on-the-fly sticky setting that would ignore capitalization altogether, as I frequently write in all lowers, but that's not an issue with OOo.
Paul
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