Bug 91031 - Writer: spellcheck to include brackets
Summary: Writer: spellcheck to include brackets
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linguistic (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.8.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Spell-Checking
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Reported: 2015-05-02 23:23 UTC by Nick Levinson
Modified: 2024-08-26 15:51 UTC (History)
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Description Nick Levinson 2015-05-02 23:23:25 UTC
In scholarly, legal, and college student writing, a word may be partly wrapped in brackets without spaces, usually because it's in a quotation. Example: "[a]nother". Spellchecking usually shows this as wrong when, to a human, it's obviously right. A spellchecker should be able to ignore brackets if at least one is not spaced on either side from adjacent strings.

If a newer version of Writer has this, that's good enough. The version I'm reporting on has still been getting updated even after reputedly being at EOL.

I guessed my hardware.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2015-05-06 14:49:03 UTC
This behavior is not yet in a recent version.
I'll set to NEW.

Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit 
Version: 4.4.2.2
Build ID: 40m0(Build:2)
Locale: en_US
Comment 2 kristenramirez 2020-08-18 09:21:49 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 3 Jason Boo 2021-03-24 13:45:29 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 4 bojo1991jon 2021-06-09 13:46:50 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 5 László Németh 2024-08-26 15:51:56 UTC
Adding the line

IGNORE ()]


to the .aff file of the Hunspell dictionary may solve the problem for that language, removing in-word parenthesis and starting bracket. It's possible, that it needs to extend the ICU word-breaking rules, too.

It was solved for Hungarian in Bug 116072, so it's worth to extend for other languages, too.