Andrew said: 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.
elgimpo replied: A posting on the OOoForum says: OOo uses MySpell while SO8 uses the commerical Franklin Proximity (and can use the the MySpell spellcheck if needed). Personally I think Sun made a mistake shifting to FP from CorrectSpell which was used with Star Office products until SO8. elgimpo askes: So did Sun pass on OO0's MySpell (open source) implementation to provide a perceived "value added" feature or did they have something better? I don't know. My concern with the OOo Spell Checker is that when it provides an option for a word such a blogging it will suggest "b logging" or "u necessary." I can't imagine that either of these phrases would ever be used as a replacement word, since neither of these suggestions are words or valid phrases. When I first started using OOo Writer many years ago, these type of invalid suggestions gave me the impression that OOo was second class to StarOffice since it did not ever suggest items that weren't words. It seems that these type of non-word suggestions are the direct result of the code used to create spelling suggestions. Does anyone agree that these type of results appear non-professional? "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
