[en] Cannot deactivate (turn off) the Java rule for compounds

[MikeUnwalla]

This problem is in the latest snapshot and earlier (2023-11-22 and possibly before that date).

Sample text for Text Language English (American).: ... into the tree of life's radiate rainbow colored leaves.

Neither the dropdown option 'Turn off Rule' nor 'deactivate' do anything. I cannot deactivate the rule.

Click 'More', then 'Rule details...' and I see the message No rule with id EN_COMPOUNDS_RAINBOW_COLORED, subId null:

BrE has a similar problem with 'rainbow coloured'.

[jaumeortola]

The real ID of the Java rule is EN_COMPOUNDS, but deactivating this ID will deactivate all matches for compounds in compounds.txt. EN_COMPOUNDS_RAINBOW_COLORED is a fake rule ID that we created for statistical purposes only.

If you really need to disable the rule for rainbow-colored, we would need to remove it from compounds.txt, and create a specific XML rule that can be disabled.

[MikeUnwalla]

@jaumeortola, thank you for your explanation.

The fact that EN_COMPOUNDS_RAINBOW_COLOREDis a fake ID is not important to the user. I think that the LT team should correct these errors:

• There is an option to deselect the rule. Make the option operate correctly, or remove the option.
• There is a link to the rule on the LT website, but when I click the link, I am told that the rule does not exist.
• False alarms. (If 'colored' is a verb, the hyphenation rule is not applicable.)

Please do not become too like Microsoft. You do not know the use cases of the users. I want to deselect the rule for compounds (not only 'rainbow colored') because the LT analysis hides other errors that my (style) rules find.

For example, think about this text: The rainbow colored the sky with beauty.

The LT analysis is not correct. 'colored' is a verb, and the tagger shows it as a verb. There must be no hyphen between 'rainbow' and 'colored'.

Because I cannot deselect the LT rule, the analysis for my rule about the word 'colored' is hidden below the analysis from the LT rule. With one sentence, the hiding is not a problem. With hundreds of sentences, it is not easy to see (in the top part of the GUI) the errors that my rules find.

[jaumeortola]

All expressions in compounds.txt should be unambiguous. If there are ambiguous sentences like this:

The rainbow colored the sky with beauty.

The right thing to do is to remove the line from compounds.txt and to write an XML rule that considers the context. @AzadehSafakish

The solution for selecting/deselecting the rules consistently won't be trivial. I don't know how it could be solved. @danielnaber