Spell Checking 'trouble' words??

[Ed Greshko]

> I would like to add somehow a list of words to my spellcheckers (aspell,
> OOo,in particular) such that the spellchecker would pause at or
> underline words that may not be misspelled but are nonetheless wrong.
> For example, I would like to check every instance of my use of 'were' so
> I can change it to 'where' if that is what I meant to write.  The same
> for words like 'to' for 'too' and 'there' for 'their'.
> 
> 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??

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

I am sure there are others....but you can take on that task.




-- 
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first
thought of.
		-- Burt Bacharach