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Originally Posted by Hitch
(P.S. -- if we are indeed persisting in adding a spell-checker to Sigil, as I see we are, can we at least add finding the next instance of a purportedly misspelled word to it, so I don't have to sit here and scroll? I feel like I've flashed back in time 20 years. If we're going to have a wp-like feature, can we make it a skosh more usable? Thx. Sorry if I sound cranky.)
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@st_albert: I'm not actually known for a surfeit of patience. Being one of the naggers who asked for PCRE, I'm trying, I really am, to be patient. But the Dodo thing is rather vexing.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
And, while we're at it, if we're adding WP-like stuff, why not do something REALLY bloody useful for an ePUB, and add a Concordancer? I mean, seriously....as a pro, we get a bajillion books in here that have indices. I can't convince the authors to abandon the indices, naturally, no matter how many times I explain about "search." We are therefore left with either a solution in which the previously-linked (top-of-page) links no longer "find" the referenced word (naturally), or we have to do a concordance-like index by hand. Given the nature of ebooks, a concordance-like index would actually make sense (giving the publisher the choice of which to leave in and which to omit), if you could auto-build the links while you were at it, across Sigil.
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0.5.3 will fix the Find issue and shouldn't be too long now.
As for spell check, I think that's something a lot of people want - just a question of fitting it in with everything else
There's no actual issue opened for it so I'll open one.
As for a a Concordance, I do see issue 167 for that, so its been around a long time. How would you see this working - not that its at the top of the list
But actual details are worth documenting for when someone gets around to it. What do you mean by top-of-page links? Without having looked into indexes, I assume you're asking for Sigil to scan for every word in your document (or word pairs/word triplets...), allow you to select/unselect them in a list, and then generate a page listing them with links back to each occurrence - meaning every occurrence must have an id (well, everyone that's linked to). And since there aren't page numbers, what do you put in the index under "word" - 1.2.3.4, or chapter 5, chapter 5, chapter 7...