https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146415
Bug ID: 146415
Summary: Allow Basic + "Extended" Dictionaries
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Enhancement Request - Multiple Dictionaries
As an author, I would like to be able to use Writer to produce works of
fiction. This typically involves the inclusion of names (individuals, places)
technologies or artefacts (genres include science fiction and fantasy) that are
fanciful and/or imaginary.
However, when working with longer pieces - chapters spanning tens of pages - it
can be frustrating to try and maintain spelling for these synthetic names
across multiple documents.
A perfect solution for this would be a feature in which Writer could be
configured to allow a third type of dictionary (after "default" and "user"),
along the lines of "project".
So if I wanted to write a book, "The Adventures of Bod", then all the unique
names and places created for that book could be placed in a custom dictionary
called "Bod".
This feature would require a slight modification to the "Spelling" window, in
that the current version has a single "Add to Dictionary" button and will add
the word to the *user* dictionary. This would have to be amended to detect if a
"Project" dictionary had been associated with the file; and if this were the
case, there would need to be two options on the Spelling window: "Add to User
Dictionary" and "Add to Project Dictionary".
Implemented, this solution would permit a user to curate individual custom
dictionaries for discrete projects. This might be particularly relevant given
close similarities of some names. Consider:-
Clare
Claire
Antony
Anthony
A writer may wish to use different (but similar) versions of names, localised
to different works of art. However, if that author had added "Clare" to a
dictionary for one book, and then added a new character, "Claire" in a
different piece of writing, a mis-spelling to "Clare" in the second work would
not flag as an error if the author has to rely on a single User dictionary.
I do appreciate that this is a 99th percentile requirement, but I can also see
all sorts of different applications where this sort of capability would be very
useful.
Thanks for your consideration.
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