Am 24.04.2016 um 19:23 schrieb Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>: > > A while ago I asked why some words that were marked to be added to my > personal dictionary were not added, and were highlighted for correction each > time I ran the spelling checker. I've isolated the cases where this occurs. > > This happens with only collective possession terms; that is, those with > the possessive apostrophe to the right of the terminal 's.' > > For example, the LyX spell checker (perhaps a plug-in?) will accept > "community's" and "communities", but not "communities'" (the latter > referring to a trait found in all communities.) > > Perhaps this can lead to a fix for the next release.
Hi Rich, I’ve pasted your email into a new document and switched to Aspell as my current spell checker backend in LyX. As you’ve described it the "communities’" are marked as misspelled. Obviously the word „communities“ is a know one and the problem is the handling of the possessive apostrophe for plural words with terminal ‚s‘ - this is a problem in the Aspell dictionary or the Aspell code. I don’t know if Aspell is able to handle this correctly. (BTW, hunspell isn’t better on my system.) I don’t know how to fix it and I think it’s not a task for LyX development. But I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to fix this for words you’ve added to your personal word list. Why this? Because the management of word ends and suffixes is part of the dictionary files and has to be told to the spell checker engine explicitly. The mechanism of the personal word lists don’t provide any interface for these subtle details. The only solution I can think of is to ignore trailing apostrophes in general. Again I don’t know if this would be correct for english - I’m a native german speaker. Regards, Stephan
