Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 93747
Spellcheck: quotes with brackets
Last modified: 2014-03-15 19:23:28 UTC
Spellchecks of quotations present special problems, such as the internal bracketing of edits to ensure accuracy. When Spellchecking inside quotations, if one of these pass the check, all should: "wintergreen" "[w]intergreen" "wi[nte]rgreen" The following from the above should be bypassed by the Spellcheck and should not invite the Spellcheck's Ignore Once or Ignore All commands: w (unless all single letters are considered as spelled correctly) intergreen wi nte rgreen Note the intentional lack of spacing inside the word. These forms occur frequently in scholarly documents. For example, if an old book says "Wintergreen is okay." and the new author wants to include it inside a sentence, decapitalizing it as "She said, 'wintergreen is okay.'" would be wrong; the proper way is "She said, '[w]intergreen is okay.'" Or, if an old book had defective printing and certain letters didn't print fully, so that the new author had to insert missing letters _nte_ based on other authority, the proper way would be, "She said, 'wi[nte]rgreen is okay.'" Brackets are standard for the purpose in English. Other languages, for all I know, may use other character pairs for the purpose, or other conventions. This could be set within a fuzzy spellcheck option, operational only when selected by a user. A fuzzy option could include many options, of which the above might be one. I'm using OOo Writer 2.4.0 without Java Runtime Environment on Linux Fedora Core 4 with Gnome 2.10.0 desktop on a Pentium 4 laptop. I didn't see these features. Thank you. -- Nick
Reassigned to SBA.
Please provide a reference / example to the behavior given in description.
In a spellcheck inside quotations, if one of these pass the check, all of them should: "wintergreen" "[w]intergreen" "wi[nte]rgreen"
This is not the case in Word 2010.
That's okay. This is intended as an enhancement. Being ahead of Microsoft provides a competitive advantage. I hope we're not limiting ourselves to what's already available from other suppliers or there won't be much reason for customers to go to the trouble of learning a different product (this software).
Thank you Nick.