Hi Nick, Nick Blanchet wrote:
> Hi, > > Love open office. > > I hope that you are the right person for this, if not please direct me to the > right person. I could not find a suggestion site to deposit this so.... > > When you use OO text spell check: > It would be great to just switch the order in which the suggestions come in. > If you make it so that the best suggestion comes first when you right click > then all people have to do is right-click -- enter-- to fill in the correct > word. > > Small thing but could save me a lot of time as I am a terrible speller. That's an understandable wish, and I'd really love something like that. But unfortunately that one is a wish of the kind tell-me-what-is-on-my-mind. And machines or programmed algorithms are bad with such things. I'm sure the spell checker does have good reason for the order it places the words in. Probably some algorithm that tries to measure how close those words are to the original but wrong one. No spell checker can simply tell you what word is the correct one, it can only provide you with a list of words that are not misspelled and (in some sense) close to the misspelled one. For example different means that could be applied are: - common known typos - the number of characters to change to obtain the new word - would it sound similar if spoken? ... And the spell checker does not even know the sentence the word is in. It just gets to see a single word and just by that it has to decide if it is correct or not, and to provide suggestions in the latter case. Simple example if you type 'xight' the spell checker could provide ypou with the following alternatives: right tight sight light might ... How should it know which of those is to use? Regards, Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
