Andrew, OOo uses MySpell while SO8 uses the commerical Franklin Proximity. Either they use it to provide a "perceived value" or they think what they have is better then OOo's MySpell. Some of the suggetions OOo can give one the impression that is is "funky" or less professional that the Word or SO spell checkers. Here's my concern. OOo sometimes provides "suggestions" that are not words. Here's an example:
"b logging" for "blogging" IMO "b logging" is not a word and therefore not a valid suggestion for relacement. StarOffice, only suggests valid words such as "logging" and "slogging" for "blogging." These is why I think that the StarOffice spell checker might be perceived as better. This difference may also provide an incentive for users to prefer StarOffice over OOo. And then sometimes an invalid word is not flagged. Example: "wifes" is not flagged in OOo but it is in SO. "Wives" is the plural of wife, not "wifes." SO provides "wives" as a suggested replacement for wifes. Any thoughts on this? "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Malcolm Kay wrote: > >>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? >>> > Although I have no particular complaints with the spell check included > with OOo, it is a pretty good bet that Sun must consider the spell checker > included with StarOffice to be better if they are paying a third party to > provide it. In other words, they would not spend money unless they > perceived some benefit to the customer or unless they were contractually > obligated to do so. > > I was not aware that StarOffice used a different spell checker. Makes me > wonder of StarOffice has adopted the regular expression support in OOo or > if they still use the third party solution. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
