Bug 46549

Summary:	Libreoffice Grammar Check returns, "bad article," incorrectly
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	jacobwwood
Component:	Linguistic	Assignee:	László Németh <nemeth>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	low	CC:	bugs, jacobwwood
Version:	3.5.0 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	target:3.6.2 target:3.5.7
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description jacobwwood 2012-02-23 18:07:10 UTC

In the following sentence...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines virtue as “an habitual and firm disposition to do the good… he pursues the good and chooses it in concrete actions (CCC 1804).”

...Libreoffice Grammar Check (English USA) returned "bad article" for "an habitual" and suggested "a habitual." However, English usage allows "an" before a word beginning with "h", even though the "h" be hard, as in "an historical occasion".

Comment 1 Roman Eisele 2012-05-24 02:55:36 UTC

REPRODUCIBLE with LibreOffice 3.5.4.1 (Build-ID: 7306755-f4f605c-738527d-1cf4bc1-9930dc8) on MacOS X 10.6.8.

Therefore changed Status to NEW and Platform to All (not Linux only).

NB: I can reproduce the problem only with "... an habitual ...", not with "... an historian ...": the 2nd example mentioned is not marked as wrong. So "historian" seems to be included within some exceptions list, but "habitual" not.

This is a Grammer checker issue, therefore changed the Component field accordingly to "Linguistic".

Comment 2 László Németh 2012-08-23 14:33:06 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. It will be fixed soon.

Comment 3 Not Assigned 2012-08-27 05:58:50 UTC

Laszlo Nemeth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/commit/?id=ac9de2e7157d7c1c30df5d6b91e1281ca182bc0d&g=libreoffice-3-6

fdo#46549 indefinite article "an" is allowed before word "habitual"


It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.2.

Comment 4 Not Assigned 2012-08-27 06:05:16 UTC

Laszlo Nemeth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-5":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/commit/?id=4a225496039498a65233bd841900907401e0561c&g=libreoffice-3-5

fdo#46549 indefinite article "an" is allowed before word "habitual"


It will be available in LibreOffice 3.5.7.

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