Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 26467
RFE: Provide option to exclude abbreviations, non-words from spellcheck
Last modified: 2013-02-24 20:43:20 UTC
Informal, and even many formal, documents include abbreviations -- such as "I.R.S." on a U.S.A. Tax spreadsheet. Having these spellchecked seems pointless. Request the classes of "words" that the user may opt to exclude from checking be expanded by the inclusion of words with embedded punctuation (non-alpha characters). ALL-CAPS and FY2004 (numbers) are already options.
TL->BH: Seems to be a reasonable request. But having such an option will also prevent abbreviations like "e.g.", "i.e.",... from being spelled. Thus maybe one only wants to exclude those words with embedded "." characters AND using capitalized only letters. If this is what is wanted it looks to me as if the option that excludes all-uppercase words from spelling should be extended to do so even if the word includes "." characters.
The AutoCorrect file lists the accepted abbreviations in order to prevent first following letter from being capitalized. The spellcheck routine could borrow from this list and exclude listed abbrevations from spell checking and spellcheck as you type (the red underline).
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".