Hi Ed and Mathew; Looked at both your recommended sites. I find grammar checkers, at lest the M$ variety, annoying. On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 12:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: [snip] > > I am not a good typist and have fallen into bad habits -- so it would be > > nice to have a facility that would allow me to add and remove 'trouble' > > words to a list as my habits change. > > > > As anyone heard of such a program or fix or hack?? > I was just thinking, when I wrote the original post, that for what I need, since my spellchecker is always automatically on, that the spellchecker might be able to always mark certain 'trouble' words as misspelled. The usual spell check options of ignore and change would be sufficient to remind me to double check my sentence. I wanted something that I could use to break me of some bad typing habits -- the grammar I already know. Well, it was late night wishful thinking, so I'll drop the subject. > You are not talking of spell checking but grammar checking. OpenOffice > itself does not have a grammar check. However, there are extensions to it > that provide some functionality. > > One of several google hits turned up this: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000060 > -- > A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first > thought of. > -- Burt Bacharach > -- Regards Bill
