Re: [opendocument-users] ODF Dictionary?

This is an interesting idea.  I
wonder if the more natural place to hook this up would be to the "ignore"
option rather than "add to dictionary"?  Most word processors
already treat "ignore" like a per-document, or at least per-session,
override.

Another interesting integration point
would be copy & paste.  If you copy a selection from one document
and pasted into another, it should also bring along any per-document dictionary
entries that were used in that selection.  Of course, that is application
behavior, beyond what the ODF specification can enforce...

Regards,

-Rob

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"Benjamen R. Meyer" <>
wrote on 08/12/2007 08:54:40 PM:

> First, I know ODF is a zip-based format that could have a number of

> things built into it. What would be neat to see is to have ODF have
a

> built-in per file dictionary.

> 

> Concept of operation:

> 

> Applications load their own dictionaries. They usually have a "user"

> dictionary that allows the user to customize the dictionary to their
usages.

> 

> The "built-in per file dictionary" would be loaded after
the application

> & user dictionaries, and would be part of the file (e.g. dictionary.xml

> located within the 'zip' odf file - odt, ods, etc.).

> 

> When the user chooses to add a word to the dictionary, they are

> presented the option with adding it to the file or application's

> dictionary. (Default to the application's dictionary, which would
follow

> the rules as have been seen before.)

> 

> This would be neat to see supported by ODF as a standard, as it would

> then encourage vendors to provide such functionality. This would also
be

> a great feature as specialized documents would be able to come up
and

> show as not having any spelling issues for custom words/etc that are

> valid for that document, but not for a dictionary in general (e.g.
an

> alien race for an author writing a Sci-Fi book.) The cool aspect would

> come in where the author sends the file to someone else, who then
also

> does not see any spelling issues for words added to that document's

> built-in dictionary.

> 

> The dictionary should not be able to be extremely large. It may be

> necessary to relegate it in size to some percentage of the document

> size, but it could be (and would be) very helpful for those exchanging

> documents and working on documents that have custom words (e.g 'odf',

> "OpenDocument", etc.)

> 

> Why? Adding a word to my own dictionary does not affect another user.

> Adding it to the _document's_ dictionary can allow another user to
see

> that I said "yes, this word is spelled correctly". Software
could even

> be configured to distinguish between these kinds of words (say, a

> different kind of underlining).

> 

> Any how...it would be something very neat to see, and to see

> applications start supporting once standardized.

> 

> Sincerely,

> An ODF-User,

> 

> Benjamen R. Meyer

> 

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