Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 04:31:07 pm M Henri Day wrote:
I activated the OOo 2.2 spellchecker for English (UK), and also got that
wavy red line for the term «metrology». But after right-clicking the word
and clicking «add», I was then able to compose the following sentence
without receiving an error message : «Metrology is not quite the same thing
as meteorology» (now that is what I call deathless prose !). In any event
Mr Goodman is advised to do the same, in order to add the term to his own
OOo dictionary....
Henri
2007/5/1, Richard Detwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
M Henri Day wrote:
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
My question to this then would be about the limit of words in the custom
dictionary. At one time someone on the list ran into that limit with Legal
Terms, and Medical Terms. Is there still a limit with 2.2 on the number of
words in a custom dictionary, and if so, how would they go about adding
medical and/or legal terms to the standard dictionary?
Hi Howard
This comes up from time to time and I will quote a previous response:
There is a method for installing larger custom dictionaries described in
this report: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52103
There is also some discussion at
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=556981
It has limitations, as you can't add new words directly to that list,
but doesn't _seem_ to have a size limit. Also doesn't cope with plurals,
capitals, apostrophes.
I have been using this method now since quite early in the 1.1 series
and the same dictionary functions well on both Linux and Windows.
I then have a separate "user" dictionary to collect the new words, and
once a year or so add them to the original.
Let me know if it looks useful and you have problems setting it up.
HTH
Russell
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