Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:09 am, elgimpo wrote:
I've noticed that the spell checker in OpenOffice will often
suggest words that are not words. For example:
u nessary
Are you sure?
Mine suggests "u necessary"; and whether this is a valid response
is matter of opinion.
All single letter words are considered valid (by most spell
checkers) and "necessary" is a standard word so it seems to me
the suggestion is proper even if somewhat startling.
By all means use a different checker if you don't like this; but
please don't use this example to denigrate the checker.
Malcolm
will be suggested for a mispelling of "unecessary". These type
of "nonwords" are never suggested in the StarOffice 8 spell
checker. This kind of "funkiness" leads me to suspect that the
spell checker in StarOffice might be better at identifying and
correcting mispelled words. Is that true?
Although I have no particular complaints with the spell check included
with OOo, it is a pretty good bet that Sun must consider the spell
checker included with StarOffice to be better if they are paying a third
party to provide it. In other words, they would not spend money unless
they perceived some benefit to the customer or unless they were
contractually obligated to do so.
I was not aware that StarOffice used a different spell checker. Makes me
wonder of StarOffice has adopted the regular expression support in OOo
or if they still use the third party solution.
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