spell check preferences ignored

[mmcrae]

I'm running oXygen 16.1 and using Hunspell / English U.S.

I have checked the following options in the preferences panel:
Ignore mixed case words
Ignore URL

When running spell check on a document (Edit -> Check Spelling), it continues to stop at proper names as well as certain words and segments within URL paths.

The preferences are stored as global options.

[adrian]

Hello,

Could you please provide an example in context where you obtain this (especially for URL)?

Also, note that Ignore mixed case words does not ignore proper names (capitalized words). The help/documentation mentions that

Ignore mixed case words - When selected, the spell checker does not check words containing mixed case characters, for example, SpellChecker.

Unfortunately there is no spell checking option in Oxygen to ignore capitalized words. However, if they are a few that repeat frequently, you could use the 'Learn Word' action to add each of them to the dictionary.

Regards,
Adrian

[mmcrae]

Thanks Adrian.

I'm checking some research reports, so there are hundreds of citations and thousands of names.

Here's one of the URL examples I've just hit:
Given: <ext-link
ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="http://www. womenforsobriety.org">http://www. womenforsobriety.org</ext-link>

The spell-checker stopped on womenforsobriety.org

And now that I see it pasted here I see that there's a space where there shouldn't be!

Is there a log kept somewhere or some hidden markup that I can search for since I'm now concerned that errors I told the spell checker to ignore are indeed incorrect?

[mmcrae]

Here's another URL I just ran into:

given: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws ... ta2010.pdf"
>http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws ... </ext-link>

The spell checker stopped on cblaws in the text (no space involved this time, thankfully!)

[adrian]

Hi,

Is there a log kept somewhere or some hidden markup that I can search for since I'm now concerned that errors I told the spell checker to ignore are indeed incorrect?

If you pressed the Ignore button in the Spelling dialog, then that is of no consequence. It just skips the word for that spell checking session. The next time you invoke the spell checker you will have to ignore it again.
If you used the Learn or Learn word actions, the words are added to a file from the Oxygen preferences folder. You can manage the learned words in Options > Preferences, Editor > Spell Check > Dictionaries, in the Learned words subsection press the Delete learned words... button. A dialog pops up with a list of the learned words for each language code and allows you to delete individual words.

Regarding the spell checking in URLs, the spell checker does have an issue when it encounters some specific characters in URLS. So far I've found '_', '?', '&' to break this. I've logged this to our issue tracking tool.

Regards,
Adrian

[Radu]

Hi,

Just to update this post, the issue should be fixed in Oxygen 17.

Regards,
Radu

[mmcrae]

Excellent! Thank you.