Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 93584
Spell Check & Find: ligatures & diacriticals: accommodate
Last modified: 2009-12-01 06:51:55 UTC
Spell checks and Find should accommodate ligatures (single characters each representing "ae", "oe", "th", "ff", "fi", etc.), which are sometimes used in traditional Latin-alphabet typesetting, to save a little space and for style, and in quotations, and they should accommodate diacriticals either present or absent (e.g., a search for Francoise should find Francoise with a cedilla in either string but not the other). This for a spelling check only requires that the internal dictionaries be searched for character strings that correspond to ligatures and logically expanded to include the resulting additional forms. An alternative method is for the search function to convert entered substrings into or from ligatures before comparing to dictionaries. The latter method is also applicable to Find. The latter method is also adaptable for diacriticals. Users should be able to turn such a default off and thus apply literalness. As an extra enhancement, a checkboxed list of all known ligatures should be offered, so that a user can search and replace in favor of all of them in one sweep without having to remember and type each one separately into a search box or create and store a complex regex. Multiligature search would be more useful if it turns out that a desired font has only a subset of ligatures in its glyph set or if some are especially unattractive and to be avoided. I'm using OOo Writer 2.4.0 without Java Runtime Environment on Linux Fedora Core 4 with Gnome 2.10.0 desktop on a Pentium 4 laptop. I didn't see this feature. Thank you. -- Nick
I think it is a duplicate of http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4638
It's pretty close to the other issue, so I'm marking this as a duplicate. Thanks.
I give up. Could someone else please mark this as a duplicate? My efforts to do that failed. Thanks.
done *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4638 ***
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