Re: [libreoffice-users] Dictionaries.

El lun, 15-07-2024 a las 20:23 +0100, Brian Barker escribió:
> At 13:57 15/07/2024 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > Right up front, this is a rant. I can't believe I'm the only one 
> > with it. I just had to tell LO Writer how to spell "disproven". 
> > Seriously people? Admittedly, I do tend to write technical. But
> > come 
> > on, "disproven"?
>
> I can't say I'm surprised. It doesn't appear in most dictionaries: 
> onelook.com , for example, finds "proven" in twenty dictionaries, but
> "disproven" in no regular dictionaries, only in two places:
> o Wordnik describes it as an "[a]lternative irregular form" of
> "disproved".
> o Wiktionary again says it is an "[a]lternative irregular form" of 
> "disproved" and suggests it is a synonym for the "archaic, Scots law"
> verdict of "not proven". (But that's wrong, surely?)
>
> Interestingly, OpenOffice's UK dictionary is happy with it, but my 
> mail client is objecting!

I'm glad Brian did the footwork as I was about to check myself. The
dictionaries may not include less-used alternatives. There is little
way around this. I have LanguageTool installed and, on the UK English
translations I do, it insists on telling me that Oxford now accepts
"organize" for "organise". Not helpful to say the least as my clients
DON't accept that. It also creates the problem, when correcting
technical papers for some clients that the presence of both the "ize"
and "ise" forms is not detected...
> > I have found, and added, a couple dictionaries, and lots of words.
>
> I'd counsel against that. The more words you include in your spelling
> dictionaries, the more chance there is of misspellings of some 
> ordinary words failing to be flagged because they happen to be 
> detected as correct spellings of obscure words that you are never 
> likely to use.
 <snip>
> As you increase its size, you 
> decrease the number of false positives whilst at the same time 
> increasing the number of false negatives. False positives are dealt 
> with by review, but false negatives will be left as errors.
Good advice from Brian, and nicely stated.

Good luck,
Roy

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