[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Hank Lambert]

You bring up a good point, which is something I have been wanting to 
look into, spell check. I use micro$oft office applications at work, and 
use Open Office, Thunderbird, and Opera at home. I am a two-finger 
typist, and fat-finger some of my typing to boot. So when I am writing 
an e-mail or letter, I have a Christmas display of colors when I am done 
with all of the typos and "fragments". The ms office suite has spell 
check and grammar check built in, and both do a really good job or 
offering suggestions for my bad typing and spelling. I would give it a 
99% accuracy in detecting mis-spelled words and offered solutions.

Using Open Office and Thunderbird, I have found it has about a 50% 
accuracy rating for the same mistakes. When I fat-finger a word, or 
simply misspell it, the list of words it offers as corrections are not 
even close, and I am not trying to spell anything advanced, simple basic 
English words. Does anyone know if there is a better dictionary to use 
with these apps, or is there something to help it learn? I not 
interested as much in the grammar checker as I am the spell checker.

--Hank

Damien McKenna wrote:
> No offense, but you might want to start spelling "advocacy" correctly, 
> some people get turned off by typos.
>
> On May 6, 2008, at 10:11 AM, patrick wrote:
>> Tons of new folks are attending install fests after some horrific
>> experiences with Microsoft, bad things like not knowing they need to
>> defrag often, fully format and re-install at least 3 times each year,
>> and the constant barrage of adware bots, exploits, trojans, worms.
>
> I tend to reinstall my wife's machine every 18 months, it just gets 
> too gunked up with the different software I test out on it, not too 
> bad really.  And we don't have problems with adware, exploits, trojans 
> or worms either.
>