Re: [opendocument-users] ODF Dictionary?

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

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" <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
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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