Re: [users] metrology

2007-05-02 Thread Howard Coles Jr.
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 04:31:07 pm M Henri Day wrote: I activated the OOo 2.2 spellchecker for English (UK), and also got that wavy red line for the term «metrology». But after right-clicking the word and clicking «add», I was then able to compose the following sentence without receiving an

[users] metrology

2007-05-01 Thread goodman
Please add the word metrology (the science that deals with measurement) to your spell checker. I recently downloaded a list of Nobel Prize laureates that someone had compiled and found Albert Michelson listed for precision meteorology. I chuckled at this and mentioned the error at a

Re: [users] metrology

2007-05-01 Thread James Knott
goodman wrote: Please add the word metrology (the science that deals with measurement) to your spell checker. I recently downloaded a list of Nobel Prize laureates that someone had compiled and found Albert Michelson listed for precision meteorology. I chuckled at this and mentioned the

Re: [users] metrology

2007-05-01 Thread M Henri Day
Does the OOo spell checker really change the orthography of incoming documents ? Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Entering a word like «metrology» in a document in Writer will, as Mr Goodman has seen, give rise to a query if the the dictionary is enabled and the word entered is not listed therein,

Re: [users] metrology

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Detwiler
M Henri Day wrote: Does the OOo spell checker really change the orthography of incoming documents ? Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Entering a word like «metrology» in a document in Writer will, as Mr Goodman has seen, give rise to a query if the the dictionary is enabled and the word entered

Re: [users] metrology

2007-05-01 Thread M Henri Day
I activated the OOo 2.2 spellchecker for English (UK), and also got that wavy red line for the term «metrology». But after right-clicking the word and clicking «add», I was then able to compose the following sentence without receiving an error message : «Metrology is not quite the same thing as