Is there a way to get AOO to accept real apostrophes (’) by default
instead of the straight single quote (') in words?
Sometimes the spellchecking just doesn’t work well. Sometimes I wind up
with nonsense words in the Suggestions list, usually with the most
likely candidates at the bottom. Sometimes the word will be in the user
dictionary, but for some reason still being flagged. Recently, I
remembered years ago in a program the spellchecker would have a list of
words and when none of them were correct, you typed in your word and it
was added to the top of the list. Or if the word was correct and already
in the dictionary but still being flagged, you had an option to mark the
word as being the correct word and continue the search. I tried
different strategies to fix this in the Exceptions dictionary, but it
either winds up making no difference or making it worse.
Sometimes punctuation at the end of the sentence is flagged. I can
understand when it is confused as to whether the period should be inside
or outside of a quote mark or parenthesis, but sometimes it flags
periods. Is there someway to add these punctuation markings permanently
to an Ignore list? Or just have them not flagged at all?
Also I just realized having foreign dictionaries installed doesn’t
really do anything to spellcheck foreign words and names in an English
language file. I use a lot of foreign words and names in my files and
stories. Could there be some way to make a document language neutral or
something so words from all languages are checked? Or possibly a way to
have a foreign language dictionary show up on the list of user dictionaries?
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Sincerely,
Rod Lockwood
