Thank you Malcolm. I think the problem is in this case "u" is not a word, but a letter, whereas "I" is a word. Perhaps it is not worth the coding effort to only parse the single letters that are really words such as "a" and "I".
I read so many reviews which state that the spell checker in StarOffice is "better" than the one in OO. I don't really have the linquistic background to evaluate these two spell checkers. Is it your opinion that the OO spell checker is equal to or better than the StarOffice version. I read in a forum that StarOffice just switched to Franklin for the Spell Checker in version 8. If that is so, why didn't Sun use Myspell? Are they trying to create some perceived added "value" by having a "professional" checker? Did they find some limitation in Myspell used in OO? "Malcolm Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:40 am, elgimpo wrote: >> Malcolm, >> >> Sorry, if you took it the wrong way. I'm not meaning to >> denigrate anything, least of all the spell checker. I'm just >> trying to understand why the checker suggests " u necessary" >> as a replacement word. To the best of my knowledge, " u >> necessary" is not a word. The OpenOffice.org spell checker >> suggests " u necessary" as a replacement for the mispelling " >> unecessary" for unnecessary. IMO this is not a valid >> replacement suggestion. Can you clarify this for me? >> > Within the context of spell checking "u" is a valid word and so > is "necessary". Thus the spell checker is suggesting that you > might have omitted the space between these two valid words. > > This means that the spell checker looks at the possibility that > you have accidently concatenated words; as in the suggestion of > "that that" in place of "thatthat". > > It is perhaps arguable that the special case of one of the > concatenated words being a single letter should be excluded, but > are you surprised by "I think" being suggested in place of > "Ithink". > > Malcolm Kay > >> "Malcolm Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:09 am, elgimpo wrote: >> >> I've noticed that the spell checker in OpenOffice will >> >> often suggest words that are not words. For example: >> >> >> >> u nessary >> > >> > Are you sure? >> > Mine suggests "u necessary"; and whether this is a valid >> > response is matter of opinion. >> > All single letter words are considered valid (by most spell >> > checkers) and "necessary" is a standard word so it seems to >> > me the suggestion is proper even if somewhat startling. >> > >> > By all means use a different checker if you don't like this; >> > but please don't use this example to denigrate the checker. >> > >> > Malcolm >> > >> >> will be suggested for a mispelling of "unecessary". These >> >> type of "nonwords" are never suggested in the StarOffice 8 >> >> spell checker. This kind of "funkiness" leads me to suspect >> >> that the spell checker in StarOffice might be better at >> >> identifying and correcting mispelled words. Is that true? >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >>------- 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]
