Next Misspelled Word

[TheRealSteve]

I have discovered a problem with the Next Misspelled Word function of Sigil, but I don't know what's causing it.

I am trying to clean up the Google-Books epub of Henry Adams's History of the United States to eliminate some distractions. Mainly these are spelling mistakes, scan errors, or words split in two. The split is only visible in Sigil in Code View, or in my Reader when the first part of the split comes at the end of a line. For example, here the word "learning" is split by code whose function, as a beginner, I don't understand:

On learn<a id="GBS.PA58.w.1.0.0"></a><span class="gtxt_body" id="para.70.1.0.box.248.234.1006.310.q.60">ing the sale of Louisiana [etc.]

To find these errors, I have been using Sigil's "Next Misspelled Word"-function, which generally works as I would expect. However, a few times now I have found that it will skip from one section to the next, even though there are still misspelled words farther down in the first section. Say that I am checking for errors in content-0020.xml, it will skip to content-0021.xml, even though there are still plenty of words underlined in red in content-0020.xml. Here's an example of where that happens:

<p class="gtxt_footnote" id="para.367.2.0.box.242.1770.999.79.q.40" style="text-indent:1em;">¹ Mémoire, etc., lu à l'Institut National le 15 Germinal, An v. (April 4, 1797).</p>


In section content-0020.xml the words "Mémoire, etc., lu à l'Institut" and "le" are all underlined in red. Clicking on the Next Misspelled Word button highlights each of them, one after the other, in blue - up to and including the word "à". If I click on the Next Misspelled Word button again, the spelling check skips to section content-0021.xml, ignoring "l'Institut" and "le", and a bunch of other red-underlined words farther down the page. If I insert the cursor after "l'Institut," the spelling check continues in content-0020.xml, instead of skipping to the next section - until, that is, I reach this line:

<p class="gtxt_footnote" id="para.384.2.0.box.226.1767.1003.72.q.50" style="text-indent:1em;">¹ Rapport à l'Empereur, 28 Brumaire, An xiii. (Nov. 19,1804); Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS.</p>

The words "à l'Empereur" are underlined in red. As before, "à" gets highlighted in blue, but when I click on the Next Misspelled Word button again, it skips to content-0021.xml, even though it hasn't reached the bottom of content-0020.xml yet. Again, if I insert the cursor after "l'Empereur," the spelling check continues in content-0020.xml, instead of skipping to the next section.

[theducks]

<a id="GBS.PA58.w.1.0.0"></a><span class="gtxt_body" id="para.70.1.0.box.248.234.1006.310.q.60"> (and it is missing the closing </span> )

That is an anchor(point) FROM the footnote/Index to allow a return to the middle of the word?
While HTML visually correct, I would never expect a spell check to wade through such odd usage

[meme]

Well that is pretty heavily tagged text, but the issue is also shown by just

<p>test à this wrd</p>

It finds à as misspelled but then won't move forward.

[kiwidude]

Fixed for 0.6.1.

The issue is any time it reaches a 1-character misspelled word it will not jump to any other misspelled words further on the page for the next check. And as stated the workaround for now is placing the cursor several characters after that 1-character misspelled word.

[TheRealSteve]

Originally Posted by theducks

<a id="GBS.PA58.w.1.0.0"></a><span class="gtxt_body" id="para.70.1.0.box.248.234.1006.310.q.60"> (and it is missing the closing </span> )

I just didn't quote enough to include it.

That is an anchor(point) FROM the footnote/Index to allow a return to the middle of the word?

Thanks for the explanation.

While HTML visually correct, I would never expect a spell check to wade through such odd usage

Here's a simpler example of this word-splitting. The word "strip" is split:

forest covered every portion, except here and there a str<a id="GBS.PA1.w.0.1.0.1"></a>ip of cultivated soil

[TheRealSteve]

Thanks meme and kiwidude.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by TheRealSteve

Here's a simpler example of this word-splitting. The word "strip" is split:

forest covered every portion, except here and there a str<a id="GBS.PA1.w.0.1.0.1"></a>ip of cultivated soil

That is one INSANE book designer

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by TheRealSteve

I just didn't quote enough to include it.



Thanks for the explanation.



Here's a simpler example of this word-splitting. The word "strip" is split:

forest covered every portion, except here and there a str<a id="GBS.PA1.w.0.1.0.1"></a>ip of cultivated soil

If the eBook reader supports searching or dictionaries it will never work on these kinds of entry. The id should never split a word.

Dale