Does the OOo spell checker really change the orthography of incoming documents ? Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Entering a word like «metrology» in a document in Writer will, as Mr Goodman has seen, give rise to a query if the the dictionary is enabled and the word entered is not listed therein, and some editing programmes do allow automatic orthographical changes in documents being written, i e, «teh» --> «the» (is this the case for Writer in OOo 2.2 ?), but do they go so far as to change them in downloaded documents without asking first ?...
By the way, I agree with Mr Goodman : by all means do include «metrology» in the English-language dictionary for OOo ?... Henri 2007/4/30, goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Please add the word "metrology" (the science that deals with measurement) to your spell checker. I recently downloaded a list of Nobel Prize laureates that someone had compiled and found Albert Michelson listed for "precision meteorology." I chuckled at this and mentioned the error at a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Michelson's Nobel Prize. I thought this was simply a case of careless editing by the list compiler, but one of my colleagues suggested that "metrology" might have been changed by a spell-checker. I discounted this theory at first but I entered "metrology," in OpenOffice 2.0 and sure enough it got the red underline! The " montrose.net" spell checker has it right, by the way. "Michelson didn't invent doppler radar 100 years ago!" Charles Goodman email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (510) 548- 8860
