Hi;
I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell, OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong. For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write. The same for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' words to a list as my habits change.
As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack??
I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell, OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong. For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write. The same for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' words to a list as my habits change.
As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack??
You are not talking of spell checking but grammar checking. OpenOffice itself does not have a grammar check. However, there are extensions to it that provide some functionality.
One of several google hits turned up this:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000060
I am sure there are others....but you can take on that task.
Hi Ed and Mathew;
Looked at both your recommended sites. I find grammar checkers, at lest the M$ variety, annoying.
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 12:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: [snip]
I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' words to a list as my habits change.
As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack??
I was just thinking, when I wrote the original post, that for what I need, since my spellchecker is always automatically on, that the spellchecker might be able to always mark certain 'trouble' words as misspelled. The usual spell check options of ignore and change would be sufficient to remind me to double check my sentence.
I wanted something that I could use to break me of some bad typing habits -- the grammar I already know.
Well, it was late night wishful thinking, so I'll drop the subject.
You are not talking of spell checking but grammar checking. OpenOffice itself does not have a grammar check. However, there are extensions to it that provide some functionality.
One of several google hits turned up this:
-- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. -- Burt Bacharach
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:02:21PM -0400, William Case wrote:
Looked at both your recommended sites. I find grammar checkers, at lest the M$ variety, annoying.
Theoretically, you should be able to turn off all of the features *except* flagging what you term "problem words".
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, William Case wrote:
I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell, OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong. For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write. The same for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
This is the job of a grammar checker. In progress for OpenOffice.org: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html. And that page has some links to other open source projects.
On 08/04/07, William Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
Hi;
I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell, OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong. For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write. The same for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' words to a list as my habits change.
As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack??
Regards Bill
Maybe you could just remove those words from the aspell dictionary.
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/5/445/sepultura/schizophrenia.html http://microvell.org
Thanks Dotan;
That's a great idea. ...
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:33 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 08/04/07, William Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
Hi;
I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell, OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong. For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write. The same for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' words to a list as my habits change.
As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack??
Regards Bill
Maybe you could just remove those words from the aspell dictionary.
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/5/445/sepultura/schizophrenia.html http://microvell.org
I am going to see if I can build a little zenity script that adds and removes 'trouble' words from and/or back into the aspell dictionary.
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