spell check flags space before a hyphen

[laurenkusa]

Hi,

we have a lot of text where we write use the -abcd argument and the spell check always flags the hyphen. Is there a way to tell Oxygen to ignore the white space before the hyphen?

We are using DITA with OXygen, in case that maters.

Thanks,

Lauren

[Radu]

Hi Lauren,

What version of Oxygen are you using?
Can you post a small sample XML fragment showing how that text is used in context? Maybe also tell us if you changed the Oxygen spell checking global settings in any way.

Regards,
Radu

[laurenkusa]

Hi Radu, I got super-busy and forgot to check the forum.

I will try to get back to this post in a couple of weeks.

Lauren

[chrispitude]

We have option names with leading hyphens in our content:

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<p>Use the <codeph>-verbose</codeph> option to...</p>

Oxygen's spell checker does not care about the leading hyphen. However, it will spell-check the word following the hyphen in the usual way:

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<p>Use the <codeph>-more_verbose</codeph> option to...</p>

Because "more_verbose" is not a word, the spell-checker will flag it.

We have many such tool-specific option names that are not words. But because we always wrap these in <codeph>, we use the "Ignore elements" feature of the Oxygen spell-checker to exclude <codeph> (and various other) elements from spell-checking:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... ts-section

This has worked great for us.