RE: Ignore proper nouns

["Addictive Software" <address@hidden>]

This could be done, but it wouldn't really be that simple.

This suggestion would only work in dialog-based spelling checks (not
live-spell).

The primary problem is that Addict doesn't currently try to interpret where
sentence delimiters are.  If you can do this yourself, then this becomes
possible.

A suggested implementation would be to hook the OnWordCheck event.  If you
encounter a misspelled word that has initial caps, examine the text prior to
the word in quesiton (you can get this info with a little work and
understanding of the ControlParser APIs from the ControlParser property on
the component).

Thanks,

Michael Novak
Addictive Software
http://www.addictive-software.com
address@hidden  




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Wiersch [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:19 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Ignore proper nouns
> 
> 
> Is there an easy way to have Addict ignore proper nouns by looking at
> whether it is the first word in a sentence and the 
> capitalization or some
> other method?
> 
> A user suggested something like this:
> 
> If a word is not in the dictionaries then it is a possible spelling
> mistake... However looking at context... If the word starts 
> with a capital
> letter and it is not the first word of the sentence then it 
> is likely to be
> a proper noun. In this case see if the control flag has been 
> set to ignore
> proper nouns. If proper nouns are to be ignored then do not 
> flag this word
> as a spelling mistake.
> 
> --
> Albert Wiersch
> AI Internet Solutions
> address@hidden
> http://www.htmlvalidator.com/
> 
>