Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 12:13:36 PM, Martin Goik wrote:

> Consider the following docbook 5 text example:
>
> <para>This is true i.e. like in software development</para>
>
> Xmlmind's built in spell checker complains about "like". The reason is
> the preceding abbreviation "i.e.".The spell checker concludes the end of
> a sentence and expects "like" to start a new sentence and thus to begin
> with a capital letter. Any solution available apart from generally
> setting "ignore case" in Xmlmind's spell options?

I believe there is a spelling rule (independently of XXE) that says
that "i.e.", "e.g." and like must be followed by a comma, and that
also happens to stop XXE complaining. (I'm not a native so I'm not
100% sure.)

> Martin Goik

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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