Dan Lewis wrote: > On Sunday April 23 2006 01:52 pm, Jon Williams wrote: >> Hi OpenOffice.org, my name is Jon and I'm concerned with the accuracy, >> flexability, and vailidity of the OpenOffice 2.0 spell checking and >> dictionary system. I am a high school student and am constantly at work >> on OpenOffice.org 2.0 doing projects, essays, reports, the works. From >> all of them I have done, it seems there are very many errors and >> mis-identifications in your dictionary and spell check system. I don't >> recall the word, but I remeber one time OpenOffice told me a word was >> wrong (I think it was "neighborhood"?) and I had the spelling in a book >> right in front of me. Additionally, there is also a lack of support for >> scientific words, names of organisms, especially in Biology (one of my >> classes). Next, there also seems to be VERY many errors with the plurals >> and one-worded words which OpenOffice.org 2.0 wants to tell me are >> supposed to be two-worded words. >> >> I'd like to know, will this dictionary and spell check system by >> revised, corrected, and worked on at all? I'm very concerned because >> it's one of the two problems I have with OpenOffice.org (the other isn't >> too big of a problem so nevermind that). So far, I absolutely love >> OpenOffice 2.0 and see it as a full replacement to Microsoft Office >> applications, keep up the great work! >> >> Thank you for reading. > > Actually, what OOo (OpenOffice.org) 2.0 contains is a basic > dictionary. Yet is it very versatile as you can add many additional > user-defined dictionaries. For example, you can create a dictionary just > for your Biology terms. > A quick way of accessing the Spellcheck window is to open a new > document in OOo and type a misspelled word. Use the F7 key to open the > Spellcheck window. Click the "Options" button at the bottom left of this > window. > This opens a second window for Writing aids. The top list contains the > User-defined dictionaries, and the bottom list contains the options. To > the right of the User-defined dictionaries are three buttons which are > related to these dictionaries: New, Edit, Delete. > The New button allows you to add another dictionary with the > properties you select. You might want to play around with this to see what > is possible. > > Dan
If I can just put in a comment The "user" dictionary does not cope with spellings other than the _exact_ one added to the dictionary. In other words, capitals and plurals are not automatically recognised. These dictionaries also have a size limit (I think 2500 words), although there is a work-around for that. There is also a bug in the Linux version with 2.0.2 that words with apostrophes are still labelled as misspelt even though they have been added to a dictionary or an "Ignore all" list. (See http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62226) It looks as though this may be fixed in the development build HTH Russell Please reply _only_ to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
