To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93801 Issue #|93801 Summary|Find should find despite demarcated insertions Component|framework Version|OOo 2.4.0 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|tm Reported by|nicklevinson
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 12 03:54:07 +0000 2008 ------- For a Find, bracketed substrings and similarly-delimited substrings, when they're insertions, should be ignorable and interpretable to produce results. A user may search based on known original text without knowing about a subsequent insertion. It's standard practice in scholarly and legal quotations to insert text into quotations on good authority and bracket it. Journalists and popular writers often use parentheses the same way, and scholars may use parentheses for insertions into nonquoted strings. Thus, a search for "visit to the store" should also find "visit to the [grocery] store". Brackets are also used by lawyers and scholars to change case. For instance, suppose a judge said, "One person, one vote." Suppose a lawyer writes a brief to agree with it, and writes "We believe in the principle of '[o]ne person, one vote.'" Suppose a user searches for "One person, one vote" (without quote marks), but because the string is common the user narrows the search by specifying case-sensitivity. Use of these conventions shows the author of the brief was referring to a capital O but bracketed a lower-case o because it was midsentence. From the lawyer's brief, you would know that the judge's original statement began with a capital O. A similar problem could arise if a cookbook said "Begin with the ingredients". Someone writing about their experience might then write "Begin[ning] with the ingredients, I made a disaster." A search for "Begin with the ingredients" should find the latter, but should not find "Beginning with the ingredients", which is different and lacks the brackets. Not only should it be possible to return a result by eliding the brackets and bracketed content, but an adjacent space should also be elided because of what would have been in the original if no bracketed text had ever been inserted. But the algorithm can't always subtract a space; there might not have been one. To preserve literalness in Find, bracket-exclusion should be an option within a fuzzy search option. By checkmarking for fuzzy, a list of options might come up, all preselected but each user-deselectable. Bracket-exclusion could be one. This, I imagine, would put OOo ahead of major competitors like MS Office. I'm using OOo Writer 2.4.0 without Java Runtime Environment on Linux Fedora Core 4 with Gnome 2.10.0 desktop on a Pentium 4 laptop. I didn't see this feature. Thank you. -- Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
