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Old 07-31-2011, 09:09 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I just don't see Sigil as a workhorse tool at this time; it's more of a finishing tool, IMHO. I don't care if someone's using it for one book or 100; my point about PCRE was about making it more of a workhorse and less of a finishing tool.
PCRE is being prioritized for 0.5.

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To me, adding a spellchecker in Sigil, and a hyperlink editor--both being freely and wonderfully well-done and available in html editors that run the gamut from free to cheap--seems like "another tool and complication in [our] workflow" that we certainly don't need.
How does adding a spell checker complicate your work flow? It's not a fundamental change. If you don't want to use Sigil for spell checking you don't have to.

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Would "spellcheck" be a nice addition? Sure. I think it sitting at the top of the next-in-line list is rather...frivolous, myself, but nobody asked me. Hyperlink editor? Again, handy, but...{shrug}.
On the bug tracker they are the the two highest voted (stared) items. Spell checking has more than 2x the amount of people wanting it than the third highest item. People overwhelmingly want these two features.
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