Re: [libreoffice-users] Specialty Dictionaries

On 06/07/12 05:26, nvrk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Simon Cropper <
> simoncropper@fossworkflowguides.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I have thought of both these things. Have hacked a standard file
> > before, particularly in MS Word. Easily done assuming it is a text file and
> > not a binary file.
> >
> > The problem is the binomial. I also thought of the concatenation string
> > but most of the single characters have been used for have special meanings
> > in various word processors. Hyphens for example are used in LO as hyphens
> > and so how would you know when removing the character at the end of your
> > report is complete, what is a concatenation character and what is a real
> > hyphen?
> >
> > In other situations I have used =!= as a joining string but as stated it
> > is messy and hard to read.
>
> An underscore works well.

Yeap, but an underscore gets used a lot in technical reports (e.g. in a 
URL). If you do a global search and replace to remove the character at 
the end of writing so the report looks "clean and well presented" you 
neuter the URL or "corrupt" the other text string that uses it.

As an alternative to "free form" typing of jargon or technical terms 
then running a spell checker, terms could be inserted from a list. This 
works OK but in the absence of LO integration you can't flag the 
inserted text as 'hey this is jargon, I just inserted it from a secure 
source, don't bother spell checking'. This can be done but requires you 
to manually apply language characteristics to hundreds or thousands of 
names, or alternatively hit "ignore" the same number of times with the 
spell checker. :(

Ideally you need a blank concatenation character that is recognizing by 
LO as linking two words (such as a non-breaking space already available 
in LO but does not necessarily have to physically bind the words 
together but would need to be seen by the spell checker as a joining 
character) AND IS RECOGNIZED by the spell checker, substituted with 
something like an underscore and compared to the lists in the dic files 
which would appear as "Eucalyptus_vulgaris". I just need someone in the 
know to be able to insert this functionality and these problems would be 
solved.

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