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------- Additional comments from mb2...@openoffice.org Thu Oct 14 18:24:54 +0000 2010 ------- @paddylandau: You're right that the procedure suggested by me is too restrictive, but I still prefer some false positives to false negatives (I'm also editing - false positives at least call for my attention, whereas I might fail to spot a misspelled word that is not underlined). So I would rather accept false positives such as words in headings, poems and the like than allow arbitrary capitalization in mid-sentence. Regarding names (of either persons or companies) I would think that they need to be included explicitly in the dictionary (in uppercase) because otherwise you might as well stop spellchecking completely (almost any combination of letters makes a name in some language - I'm just thinking of Mr. Ng and Mr. Lv, whom I encountered today ...). In German, for example, there are many words that can be both noun and adjective/adverb with identical spelling except for the capitalization of the noun. I would nevertheless prefer to enter these manually in both spellings rather than allow every possible lowercase word also to be uppercase in mid-sentence (and I don't think this is already in the realm of a grammar checker!). In my opinion, a list of punctuation marks should be defined (definitely ".?!" and paragraph marks, maybe also ";:"") after which capitalization in generally allowed (or enforced?) for words that are normally lowercase. This is what even simple text editors do and with what I was always happy. Anyway, no spellchecker will ever be perfect; it's just a matter of finding a viable 99% solution - at present it's more like 90%, which I find too low. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
