Issue 21126 - Spell Check Grossly inefficiant
Summary: Spell Check Grossly inefficiant
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Infrastructure
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Website general issues (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: issues@lingucomponent
QA Contact: issues@lingucomponent
URL:
Keywords: needmoreinfo, oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-10-13 17:02 UTC by sohmc
Modified: 2013-02-24 20:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description sohmc 2003-10-13 17:02:19 UTC 
Hello.  I'm not sure if this is my problem or just a problem with the code but I
have not had much success with the spell check that is included with OOo.  I
frequently have to have m-w.com open so I can check my spelling there.

If it's something I'm doing wrong, can you please direct me to how to fix it?  I
have not been successful in my searches on line.

Have you guys considered applying the aspell code?

thanks!
Comment 1 tamblyne 2003-10-14 02:51:19 UTC 
Hi, Sohmc:  

I'm afraid the description of the problem you are having doesn't help
find a way to solve it.  Please provide more information -- are you
doing a spell check on the document but obviously misspelled words are
missed?  This could be related to your language settings.  

Also, you are using a very old version of OOo.  The latest is 1.1.  I
would suggest you upgrade.  

Please provide more information so we can get you set up properly.  

Thanks,  

Tam
Comment 2 khendricks 2003-10-14 21:28:44 UTC 
Hi,

Unfortunately aspell will not support manty langauges that need affix compression 
and it won't build cross-platform, and we evaluated it once and found it lacking (not 
thread safe, not cross-platform, overly complex for the job it had to do, and we could 
not license it under SISSL anyway.

Now that the spell checker has added replacement tables for common phonetic 
mistakes and n-gram based suggestions for very poorly spelled words (both present 
in OOo 1.1, you should see a huge improvement in the quality of suggestions, if that 
is your main complaint.

But in order to understand why you are unhappy I need to know a few things:

1.  What language are you spell checking in (en_US or something else)

2.  if not en_US did you install the extra dictionary properly?

3. What is the default and active language attribute of the text you are trying to 
spellcheck?

4.  Please descibe in more detail the problem you are seeing and how I go about 
recreating it on my own machine.

Thanks,

Kevin

lingucomponent project lead

ps. I am moving this issue to lingucomponent for tracking purposes.

Kevin
Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-10-14 21:35:28 UTC 
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Comment 4 tamblyne 2004-03-18 16:36:45 UTC 
Hi, Sohmc -- 

Please respond to Kevin's request for additional information.  Otherwise, we may
have to close this issue for lack of information.   

You might also want to take a look at the FAQ:  

http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s05.html#SPELLCHECKER

Tam
Comment 5 sjb90 2004-04-25 01:07:45 UTC 
Closing this issue as invalid for the time being, as we haven't heard anything
more from the original reporter for the past six months. sohmc -- if you are
still experiencing this difficulty do feel free to reopen this issue, and to
give us the extra information that Kevin has requested, as this should allow us
to help you most efficiently.

Thanks for supporting OpenOffice.org!
Stuart.
Comment 6 sjb90 2004-04-25 01:08:01 UTC 
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