Spell Checking 'trouble' words??
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Apr 8 04:02:33 UTC 2007
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.
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