Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 57505
words that are parsed as 2 words are allowed in the dictionary
Last modified: 2013-02-24 20:43:26 UTC
It shouldn't be possible to manually add words with hyphens or numbers or spaces in them to the dictionaries. They will never get used in ooo. Either it shouldn't allow it, or some sort of warning or error should come up. (If it does allow it, then perhaps those words should be highlighted to signify that there is something wrong with them.) An example word would be "pac-man". The hyphen makes it into 2 words when being typed into Writer, so the pac brings up a red line, and since pac isn't in the dictionary the word is considered to be mispelled.
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Confirmed with OOo 2.0.2RC3, Writer, WinXP. - Typed 'Pacman'. - Spell check; indicates 'Pacman' is wrong. - In the spell check window, correct to 'Pac-man'. - Add to dictionary. Ok. - Run spell check again. - Highlights 'Pac' as a mistake. I'm not sure whether it is acceptable to just prevent adding a hyphenated word to the dictionary- although this is easiest to implement. In some cases (such as 'Pac-man'), in semantic terms surely this counts as just one word. Regards, Andrew