[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 36695] [EasyHack] Request for a "smart" link between thesaurus and spell checking

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36695

--- Comment #1 from Jeff Aigner <jaigner at setnine.com> 2011-06-07 21:38:50 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Introduction: In LibreOffice spell checking and thesaurus are insufficiently
> linked, which leads to the perception that LibreOffice spell check is
> insufficient. This problem can be easily solved: Therefore, this bug is marked
> as [EasyHack]
> 
> Problem description:
> 1. Language dictionaries for spell checking generally contain official and
> not-very-colloquial words. That's okay, so far.
> 2. The thesaurus additionally also includes many words which are colloquial and
> non-official. That's okay, too.
> 3. However, if the user writes a colloquial word in a document (which is in the
> thesaurus), spell check will not find it and therefore will underline it in
> red. If the user then just performs a right mouse click on the word, he/she
> will usually get offered quite useless alternative words which do not really
> fit. The user does NOT see that the inbuilt thesaurus knows the word and could
> actually offer much better alternatives. The user just thinks that LibreOffice
> does not know this word, which is wrong.
> 
> Proposal: If the spell check does not know a particular word, but the thesaurus
> knows it, LibreOffice should include the note "The thesaurus offers
> alternatives to this word" as first entry of the proposed alternative words
> after performing a right mouse click on the red underlined word.

Do you have any examples of words for which this happens?

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