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Originally Posted by meme
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. |
Thanks, and thanks. I was one of the people (and still am, honestly) who was not thrilled with the idea of adding spell-check to Sigil, as it feels very "word-processor-ish" to me, which is not a direction I--personally--really want to see Sigil continue toward. However, as it's clearly here, and here to stay, then let's make it a bit more useful, as being 1) able to go to the next incidence, and b) some sort of temporary buffer for words that we don't want to add to our dictionaries permanently, but don't want to have to scroll through/leap to for every instance, like (heavens help us all) dialect, or NAMES, or god-knows-what. I did a book today with a spelling of "Victor" that was "Viktor," which I didn't want to add to my dictionary for obvious reasons, and I don't know how many times it appeared in this masterpiece, but, lemme tell ya: it was a blooody LOT.
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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...
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Well, what I mean by top of page links is actually misspeaking, BUT, when someone builds an index in Word (or Wordperfect, or INDD), the cross-referenced links actually TARGET the page number--the header at the top of the page (
actually...the
first position before the
first letter of the
first word of the
first line at the top of the page, to be technical). They're not links to the actual word, not when the html is exported. Thus, the links (and the "original" page numbers) are output to the html that we poor converters get to convert FROM. So you end up with someone clicking "page 53" for an indexed word, and sure enough, he's taken to what used to be the first line of what used to be page 53--which now has as much relevance to the word/phrase/concept being searched as my grannie's undies.
So, They Is Worthless. However, other than doing hand-linking to the actual word/phrase/concept itself, there's nothing better to be had.
So, yes, I'd think that a Concordancer that works very much as you've described, with a numbering scheme of 1, 2, 3 (or i, ii, iii--that part doesn't matter to me as much) would be pretty damned brilliant. I'd LOVE to be able to offer that to my clients in lieu of really aggravating indices that aren't worth a hoot, are frankly outmoded and are invariably a source of frustration. A concordanced index WOULD, for non-fiction and reference books, be fantastic (at least, for the ones I use, I'd love it.) I also use the search function(s) extensively, myself...but for those authors who can't let go of an index (and I can't quite blame them--I use Liz Castro's all the time), I'd like to be able to
affordably build an index that's worth a damn. And what you've described sounds really quite the thing.
(sorry to ramble--long few days and tired. Very trying books/clients lately.)
Hitch