Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 1:44:54 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote: > 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.)
So, as someone has pointed out to me in private, according to Fowler's Modern English the comma is not always required in such situations, and furthermore sometimes it shouldn't be there, depending on the meaning of the sentence. That is, the above workaround is not good. At least as a quick primitive solution, the spell checker should recognize the common abbreviations (like e.g., i.e., etc.), and not treat the dot after them as sentence ending. >> Martin Goik -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
