263820 - Spell check options: check one letter words, capitals (enhancement)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 391672

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Berend Veldkamp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

It'd be nice to have options for spell checking such as
- Ignore one letter words (and yes, I already added those to my personal
dictionary, but it's a kludge)
- Ignore words in capitals
- more?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write an email containing a one letter word
2. Check spelling

Actual Results:  
one letter words are marked as misspelled

Expected Results:  
ignore one letter words

Comment 1

[Aaron Lawrence]

WFM-
Just tried with Mozilla 1.7.1 (20040707) on Win2K and entered a bunch of one
letter words, and spell check was quite happy with them. 
Try a newer version. You have a pretty old one.

Any objections to closing?

Comment 2

[Berend Veldkamp]

I tried with 1.7.3 now, and 'b' is still marked as misspelled. I must add though
that I'm using the Dutch dictionary, English is OK.

It seems the english dictionary contains one letter words, the dutch one
doesn't. So, should all letters be added to every dictionary, or should it be a
global option? I'm not sure what the implications are.

Also, my other point, to ignore words in capitals, still stands, or should I
file a separate enhancement request for this one?

Comment 3

[Aaron Lawrence]

I can easily imagine this is language dependent.

Comment 4

[Berend Veldkamp]

I guess so, but in that case I'd expect the English dictionary only to contain
'I' (not 'i'), 'A' and 'a' (maybe others as well, but not *all*). The Dutch
dictionary would have to contain 'u' and 'U'. 

The reason I would like this enhancement, is that most messages contain phrases
like: 'On 11 oct 2004, B. Veldkamp wrote:'. In this case 'B' is not language
dependent. So even if a dictionary contained all language dependent one letter
words, I'd still like to have an option to override it.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Berend Veldkamp]

It seems not a lot of people are bothered by this, so I guess this one can be
closed. The "spell-as-you-type" in TB 1.5 helps a bit since you don't have to
confirm each unknown word manually. Saves a few clicks.
I'd still appreciate some options similar to thise in MS Word, under "Tools |
Options | Spelling and Grammar". If someone has the time...

Comment 7

[Aaron Lawrence]

I think it's a reasonable enhancement and not infeasible, so confirming it.
Updated summary to be more obvious.

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 9

[Matt Caywood]

These suggestions are covered in bug 391672.