Bug 185543

Summary: wish: change spellchecking strictness
Product: [Applications] parley Reporter: Jan Gerrit Marker <jangerrit>
Component: generalAssignee: Parley Developers <parley-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: ansa.ansa, gladhorn, inge
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jan Gerrit Marker 2009-02-25 17:35:35 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

If I type "esse ,sum ,fui ,-" instead of "esse, sum, fui, - " (have a look at the commas) then the vocable is wrong. Or if a " " isn't right it is wrong, too. Please add an option for disabling that strict spell checking.
Comment 1 Frederik Gladhorn 2009-03-07 18:05:21 UTC 
This is not really spell checking, but I agree with the wish, commas and spaces should be treated less strict.
Comment 2 Ansa 2014-04-04 20:21:53 UTC 
There is a duplicate of this wish: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331509
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2014-05-05 09:26:09 UTC 
*** Bug 331509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Inge Wallin 2015-02-14 13:57:04 UTC 
We are adding an option "ignore punctuation" which will be similar to "ignore capitalization".  This will probably give you what you are after, right?
Comment 5 Jan Gerrit Marker 2015-02-14 14:00:07 UTC 
Yes, exactly, thanks :-)
Comment 6 Ansa 2015-02-14 19:43:17 UTC 
Could you also add "ignore whitespace"?
And thanks for the punctuation. I can't wait to use that option :-)
Comment 7 Inge Wallin 2015-02-14 19:49:15 UTC 
I don't think we need an "ignore whitespace" option.  Whitespace differences should always be ignored. I will treat that as a bug if it doesn't.
Comment 8 Ansa 2015-02-14 21:28:31 UTC 
Whitespace differences are not ignored at the moment. Should I file a separate bug?

I assume you are talking about differences in the amount of whitespace + ignoring all whitespace at the beginning and the end of the string. I completely agree that that should be done automatically.

But what about the change between there being some whitespace and there not being any? Possible uses for ignoring it:
- learners of English: make "spell checker" and "spellchecker" equivalent (with the danger that all kinds of runtogether words will also be accepted as correct),
- to quote Jan's example from above, make "esse ,sum ,fui ,-" equivalent to "esse,sum,fui,-" without any spaces.
Comment 9 Inge Wallin 2015-02-14 22:29:14 UTC 
yes, that's what I'm talking about.  I also think that punctuation == whitespace if it's ignored, and that whitespace/no whitespace is significant.

So 'esse ,sum' = 'esse, sum' and 'esse    sum' = 'esse sum' but 'esse sum' != 'essesum'