At 13:28 14/03/2009 -0500, Jonathan Graef wrote:
I noticed that the dictionary in openoffice is case-sensitive. This means that when a word is added to the dictionary in lower-case, and then capitalized, say, at the beginning of a sentence, it is marked as incorrect. I would like to suggest that when adding lowercase words to the dictionary from the right-click menu, the word be added in both lowercase and capitalized form, to prevent the user from having to add it more than once.
It's perhaps worth saying that having a case-sensitive dictionary can be useful - with proper names, for example. My OpenOffice English (UK) dictionary, for example, accepts "Jonathan" but rejects "jonathan" - which is helpful. (In typing this, I notice that my mail client's spelling checker does the same.)
But your point is different from this: that if you want a lower-case version included you are likely to want a initial-capitalised version of the same word accepted too. I'm guessing, but I imagine that default dictionaries include complex data indicating which words can appear in which inflected forms. And I'm also guessing that custom dictionaries could not do that unless the user were quizzed in detail about the particular properties of the word they were adding.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
