Issue 4163 - Spell check doesn't suggest contractions
Summary: Spell check doesn't suggest contractions
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: khendricks
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-04-22 01:50 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2008-05-17 23:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2002-04-22 01:50:35 UTC 
Using version 641d on Redhat 7.1.

It would probably be good if the spell check suggested contractions that look 
like a misspelled word, eg "don't" for "dont" and "isn't" for "isnt".  This 
isn't a huge deal as the spell check catches the words as wrong, but it should 
probably be added before the 1.0 release if it isn't too much work (or hasn't 
already been fixed).

Keep up the good work guys, it looks great.

Joseph
Comment 1 prgmgr 2002-09-09 02:37:48 UTC 
Joseph, thanks for taking the time to post this suggestion.

OOo 1.0.1 still does not suggest contractions.

I'm going to change this issue into a enhancement request.


Duplicated on Win NT 4.0 SP6a, OOo 1.0.1.


Thank you for using and support OOo.
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2002-09-18 17:35:59 UTC 
Reassigned to Michael.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2002-09-19 11:06:02 UTC 
MRU->TL: StarOffice's Lingu module is capable of this. Who would be
the right person to implement this into OO's Lingu module?
Comment 4 thomas.lange 2002-09-19 12:20:25 UTC 
TL->Kevin: Can you take of this?
Comment 5 khendricks 2002-10-05 15:06:06 UTC 
Hi, 
 
Somehow I must have missed this one earlier.  My apologies. 
 
There is no technical reason why MySpell can not suggest 
contractions.  All suggestions created by single character insertion 
are controlled by the "TRY" string in the affix file. 
 
So if you simply edit 
 
OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/dict/ooo/en_US.aff with any text editor 
and change the following line: 
 
TRY esianrtolcdugmphbyfvkwESIANRTOLCDUGMPHBYFVKW 
 
to add the single quote character like so 
 
TRY esianrtolcdugmphbyfvkwESIANRTOLCDUGMPHBYFVKW' 
 
It should now suggest contractions that exist in the dictionary. 
 
The "TRY" string lists potential characters to insert in the order 
of decreasing frequency of occurence in the dictionary (the "e" is 
found most often, etc). 
 
So please give this a try (no pun intended) to make sure it works 
properly for you and if so, I will add the ' to the TRY string for 
the next release after soon to be / just announced 643. 
 
Again, sorry for the delay in dealing with this, it simply fell 
through the cracks. 
 
Kevin
Comment 6 Unknown 2002-10-05 22:03:35 UTC 
Hello,

I made the change you suggested and it now works perfectly. 

No problem on the delay of getting this fixed, it really wasn't that big
of an issue for myself.  It was just something I noticed and thought you
guys might want to know about.  

Keep up the good work,

Joseph
Comment 7 khendricks 2002-10-07 15:24:25 UTC 
Hi, 
 
I have now included this in my 643 build and tested it and will 
commit it to the 643 tree. 
 
Thanks, 
 
Kevin
Comment 8 ace_dent 2008-05-17 21:16:03 UTC 
The Issue you raised has been marked as 'Resolved' and not updated within the
last 1 year+. I am therefore setting this issue to 'Verified' as the first step
towards Closing it. If you feel this is incorrect, please re-open the issue and
add any comments.

Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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Comment 9 ace_dent 2008-05-17 23:18:51 UTC 
As per previous posting: Verified -> Closed.
A Closed Issue is a Happy Issue (TM).

Regards,
Andrew