Exclude patterns from spellchecking

1

Hi,

I want to exclude certain patterns from spell checking. Especially things between square brackets. So I put this rule on top inside the rules tag of a grammar.xml:

<category id="BRACKETS" name="brackets">
    <rule id="IGNORE_BRACKETS" name="Ignore text in brackets">
        <pattern>
            <token regexp="yes">\[.*?\]</token>
        </pattern>
        <disambig action="immunize"/>
    </rule>
</category>

I also tried with:

<disambig action="ignore_spelling"/>

Both didn’t work.
I wrote some extra sentences in my test example to make sure the correct language is selected.
I didn’t put the rule inside grammar_custom.xml to reduce error possibilities.

Your help would be highly appreciated.
Best,
yellowblob

2

[ and ] are their own tokens, you can check that at Text Analysis - LanguageTool. So you’ll need three <token...> elements for that in your pattern. The action should also maybe be <disambig action="ignore_spelling"/> (if you really only want to exclude spell checking).

3

I did two mistakes. First was putting the snippet in org/languagetool/rules/xx/grammar.xml. It has to go in org/languagetool/resource/xx/disambiguation.xml Second as @dnaber pointed out it needs three tokens.

<rule id="IGNORE_BRACKETS" name="Ignore text in brackets">
    <pattern>
        <token>[</token>
        <token></token>
        <token>]</token>
    </pattern>
    <disambig action="ignore_spelling"/>
</rule>

One question for me remains: Is there a more suitable location for the rule to ensure it persists through updates?

4

We have that for some files, but I don’t think we have it for disambiguation.xml.