Allow for Custom Pronouns in dictionary/grammar

[ak_hepcat]

One way LibreOffice could outshine every other suite is by allowing for the handling of custom pronouns.

It’s frustrating for users that try to use any pronouns outside of the generic pre-programmed ones.

For instance:
When trying to use the pronouns Xe/Xir, every correction is either “he x” or “She y”, or it tries to treat it like a place.

A user should be able add it to their dictionary as a pronoun, and click a few boxes to show how it conjugates.

Without this capability, LibreOffice thinks the grammar of “xe said” and “thought xir” are two different things it needs to correct the user on, and if told to ignore one because it’s correct, it cannot make the leap to ignoring the other two!

There are many other pronoun options beside xe/xir, and there are many in other languages as well that could benefit from this additional configuration option.

*edit - I use Linux, primarily, and then Android, i(pad)OS, and Windows; but obviously this should be agnostic to OS. I try to keep to the latest distribution-supported release, so roughly LO 7.1

[EarnestAl]

Feature requests should go directly to Bugzilla as Enhancements. Cheers, Al

[mikekaganski]

I believe that just marking one as “pronoun” wouldn’t be enough; there are more things to consider there (even if one forgets about different languages with different rules). It would be no easier (and practically more difficult for a general user) than simply adding several forms of the word.

[ajlittoz]

Are you talking about spellchecking or grammar check?

As far as I know, grammar check is an add-on developed by a third party. Consequently, any complaint about it should be forwarded to the developers, not to LO.

For spellcheck, you can add your own exception during a spellcheck pass. Of course, you’ll have to do so for every flexion of any word (singular/plural, masculine/feminine/neutral, cases if any, conjugates, …).

Edit your question (the “pencil” tool) to mention your OS (likely to be Windows as there is no default grammar check under other OS’s) and LO version.

[gabix]

If you use a Hunspell dictionary for your language, you can add words with whole paradigms to the dictionary and even add new paradigms to the respective affix file. However, LO’s Hunspell engine does not seem to support part-of-speech tagging (or does it?).