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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 17 10:07:40 +0000 2008 ------- In the French language, hyphens can be considered as word characters OR as words joints. === Hyphens as word characters examples === * afro-américain * piézo-électrique * anarcho-syndicaliste * Aix-en-Provence * etc. There is a lot of words with hyphens where parts of words are not valid words. So these words have to be considered as one whole. === Hyphens as words joints === 1. Almost all verbs at imperative mood: At imperative mood, we join direct and indirect object to the verb. * donne-le-moi (give it to me) * attends-moi (wait for me) * prends-le (take it) 2. All verbs at interrogative mood: In French, we join the subject with the verb at interrogative mood. * Attendez-vous ... ? (Do you wait for ... ?) * Attaqueras-tu ... ? (Will you attack ... ?) * Étaient-ils ... ? (Were they ... ?) 3. Designation cette chose-là (this thing) ces choses-là (these things) ces chiens-là (these dogs) ce cinglé-là (this crazy man) cette cinglée-là (this crazy woman) etc. All nouns can be used this way to point out specific things or persons. With words joints, there is millions of possibilities. ================================ The current behaviour (hyphen considered as a word separator) is not satisfying, for we need a support for words with hyphens as characters. But, for the French language, I am not sure what the best is. Solutions: 1. Always consider hyphens as a word characters, and generate all possible words with the dictionary, even when hyphens are words joints. I have already done it for interrogative mood, imperative mood. The problem is there is so many possibilities that it slows down the spellcheck processing, and it hard to create all possible combinations, especially for the imperative mood. 2. Consider hyphens as word characters, but check each parts of the word if the whole is not recognized. Probably the simpliest way, for the French language. 3. "Hunspell will split the words (...) at hyphens and support better suggestions for these multipard words" I assume that is quite similar to solution 2... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
