Re: irritation with spelling & URGENT new(?) bug


Subject: Re: irritation with spelling & URGENT new(?) bug
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 13:26:56 CDT


According to Patrick Lam <plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu>:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, F J Franklin wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to make the spell checker automatically accept "<word>'s"
> > if it recognizes "<word>"?
> >
> > The receptionist's grandchild is Ophelia's best friend.
>
> Similarly, when writing French, you often use l' and d'; these get flagged
> as spelling errors.

This is a matter of "slice" the sentence to words that can be taken
individually. I don't really who does it ie ispell or AbiWord, but whoever
does the problem is that it is specific to the language you are
spellchecking.

Hub



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