01-07-2015, 09:05 AM | #1 |
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SpellCheck - Abbreviation(?) Apostrophes
Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed that will ignore words ending in ’s.
I have an instance...the word(s) "institute’s" is clearly short for "institute is/has" but the options I have are:
...but "There's" is not found wanting in the same fashion. They are both similarly constructed, but not differentiated. Do I have to handle these manually? |
01-07-2015, 10:00 AM | #2 |
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That's not a question of a setting, suggestions come from the installed dictionaries. In this case I assume you are using the builtin english dictionary, which in turn comes from LibreOffice. If you dont like the suggestions then you can either try installing a different dictionary or handle it manually.
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01-07-2015, 03:44 PM | #3 |
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Ah...I suspected that might be the case.
Thanks Kovid |
01-07-2015, 04:24 PM | #4 |
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how about having feature in the editor that allows user to have a list of words that are to be regarded as misspellings, even though they are in the dictionary. This is not an original idea - it's borrowed from MS Word.
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It's a valid 'word' just not one that it's not recognized by my current dictionary. A feature to add specific word/combo structures might be useful though. |
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You could also do this
My 'alarm' bells rang when I saw the "institutes's". I know the NYC and CMS et al, say ...s's is OK, but they didn't have Miss Pritchard rapping their knuckles with her ruler, or have their ears cauliflowered by Mr Kneller's blackboard duster BR |
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I was thinking the other way and adding a few definitive optional rules for words to ignore:
Ignore words in all CAPS - Y/N (FBI, FAA, UK, USA) Ignore words with numbers (1QT, ABC123) Only check base of possessives (cat's) (if ends in apostrophe+s, only check root word) |
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That would make no sense
would's is not correct spelling. |
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