Re: [tdf-discuss] Need for more compound words for spellcheck dictionary.

RGB ES wrote:
> AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo.
> If you have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss,
> you can "import" (I mean, copy to the right location) that dictionary
> into LibO user profile. See here for more details about the user
> profile:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
>
> 2011/2/20 Robert Derman <robert.derman@pressenter.com>:
>   
> > One of the reasons, perhaps the main reason I have not upgraded to LO from
> > OpenOffice 3.1 yet is that I dread having to go through the process of
> > adding over a thousand compound words to the spellcheck dictionary.  This
> > dictionary has almost NO compound words in it!  Does anyone know if this
> > problem has been addressed with LO 3.3.  I am using the U.S. English
> > version.
> > If this severe shortcoming has not yet been addressed yet, I think we should
> > do so before version 3.4.
> >     
My question above appears to have been answered, which leads me to pose 
the following. 

I suspect that this may be one of the reasons that businesses continue 
to stick with MS Office and more particularly MS Word.  I have not used 
Word for quite a while, but from when I did, I remember it having a much 
better spellcheck dictionary.  This is one of the many places where LO 
needs to do a better job in order to:  A. distance itself from OOo, and 
B. appear to the people who make decisions in businesses as a serious 
professional grade product, and not just a hobby for software writers 
with time on their hands. 

Having a seriously inferior spellcheck dictionary costs time with office 
workers and thus is in many cases sufficient reason for companies to 
stay with a proprietary commercial product and shun open source.  It 
leads corporate buyers to believe in the  old adage, "You get what you 
pay for." 

I believe that this is a thing that non-programmers could work on with a 
little help and guidance from programmers/developers.  I don't know this 
for sure, but perhaps there is even an open source dictionary program or 
something, or a public domain word list or something that we could 
utilize that would be better than the very inadequate spelling check 
word list we borrowed from OOo.

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