How to enable coumpound name check

[GDegrove]

Hello,

We are using typos for checking our documentations spellchecks. And TBH, it's awesome and we love it. However, we have some issues. We would like to never correct given names (or any names)

One of our collaborator name is Alst and obviously, it's being corrected to last. And this is a proper fix, for anything except if the previous words are his name.

So our question, would it be possible to have an exclusion list that works on the composition of several words. Example, Alst is correct if the previous word, actually the van. So van Alst can only be written van Alst not van alst but also never correct as van last.
It's the same for me, De Grove can only be written like that and never corrected differently.

[epage]

The current recommendations for this are

• Allow Alst, independent of context, as a valid identifier
• Use regex to ignore \bvan Alst\b

It works out in your situation that there is surrounding context to help catch these are names but a lot of times, that is not the case. I'm unsure if its worth making the spell checker contextual would be worth it in this case. The cost of allowing one off misspellings is relatively low, especially when allowed as an identifier where case has to match.