On Tuesday 09 January 2007 02:13, Kelvin Eldridge wrote: > Hi, > > I maintain the Australian English dictionary files, which are now used > across many projects. > > The Australian English dictionary file contains approximately 4,000 > hyphenated words. > > Recently as a result of this work I retested how OpenOffice.org handles > hyphenated words and found it doesn't work as I expected. > > For example, the term bric-a-brac is in the Australian English dictionary > for OpenOffice.org, is in the Macquarie dictionary, and recognised > correctly by Microsoft Word. It is not handled correctly in OpenOffice.org.
I can confirm this in the UK English dictionary too. My dictionaries are Collins English Dictionary (CED), Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (CH20) and the Oxford Etymological Dictionary (OxEt). The OOo (2.0.4) spell checker fails on bric-a-brac (CED), bricabrac (Ch20) and bric-à-brac (Ch20, OxEt). It also fails on spick-and-span (Ch20). And higgledy-piggledy is accepted as are the two separate parts, when in fact, neither (to my knowledge) should be allowed alone. > > OpenOffice.org appears to check each word as being correct and ignores the > hyphens. That's consistent with the above examples. > > I would like to raise an enhancement request for hyphenated words to be > handled correctly for Australian English. Or any language; please don't be so parochial :-) > > Could a second person using Australian English please confirm this is an > issue. > > I have checked Issuezilla and not found an appropriate issue. If someone > knows if an issue has been raised please let me know. If you raise one, please let us know. I'll comment on it, but I can see that it may not be so easy to fix, and there are more important things for the developers to do. It's quite difficult to find examples from one's own head, so it may not be very serious. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
