In news:[email protected],
Séamas Ó Brógáin <[email protected]> typed:
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.
I disagree, but it's a matter of use and taste. Just tell it to Ignore or
Change All, as the case may be, or even add it to your dictionary if you
want it to be part of the dictionary. Any of those ways will stop the
display of all those hundreds of places. There are also several different
kinds of dashes which might complicate the matter more.
Or, see what it was about 3.1 that worked for you and bring that into
3.2.
Actually it strikes me that you may prefer to use a dictionary other than
the one supplied with OO.o. There are a multitude of dictionaries available,
mostly free, that will work with OO.o by simply installing the add-on or
add-in. Check the out; there are a lot of them both around the 'net and many
right at OO.o's site.
IMO it's a negligible thing and not even an annoyance to this Technical
Writer. Especially since the user has control over the contents of their
dictionaries, default and personal alike, and the many ways they can be set
to allow or catch many different permutations of things. Perhaps this is a
demo of the reasons for having such functions; it allows the user fuller
control over the checks they perform.
HTH,
Twayne
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