Jomali wrote:
"Significant fault" - I don't think so. Perhaps nice to have, but the lack of the ability to specify a non-standard word separator does not affect functionality at all.
The “significant fault” is not that I can’t specify a word separator but that it should be necessary to consider such contrivances. And a dash is not a “non-standard” word separator but a very standard one for the last few hundred years. The spelling check correctly distinguishes words separated by a hyphen (like-this), an oblique stroke (like/this), and other punctuation marks. This should simply work (as it did until a week ago). It now doesn’t. That’s a fault. I notice that this feature is broken also now in connection with the en rule: the Paris–Rome express (assuming there is such a thing) is now a spelling mistake. Should I just “ignore it completely”? If I am editing a book containing possibly hundreds of dashes, each one will cause the spelling check to stop and require me to consider the options. One option that is not feasible is to add all legitimate occurrences to the user dictionary, because there is an infinite number of possible combinations of words on each side of the dashes. And it doubles, possibly, the time taken for a spelling check. That shouldn’t happen, and it didn’t happen until Openoffice 3.2. That‘s a significant fault. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
