Quote:
Originally Posted by mrmikel
That is why I requested the spellcheck to be able to ignore capitalized words.
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This is an OpenOffice method I did try two days ago and which maybe can be adapted to EPUB spell-checking.
I just did a successful try with
OpenOffice on a 1000 page book including a lot of proper names I had never met. The spell-checking was excruciatingly slow because of these proper names. OO proposals at times were quite funny, but frequently way off the mark.
The OO spell-checker has an option: "ignore all words fully in uppercase".
To perform a quicker spell-checking, I did this:
1. Transform all the words
beginning with a capital into words
fully in uppercase.
2. Spell-check the book with the option "ignore words fully in uppercase".
3. Convert back the words
fully in uppercase into words
beginning with a capital.
You take a small risk: you exclude words beginning with a capital. Among them are also some common words (the one which begin a sentence). This is your choice. Also, you may have to write down existing acronyms (CIA, KGB) to restore them later in their former glory. ;-)
Method
This method works with OO. I did not try to adapt it on EPUB.
1. Regex. Option to select: take the case into account.
Look for:
Code:
\<[:upper:]{1}[a-z]{1,}\>
All the concerned words are selected.
Then: Format: change the case: Word fully in capitals.
2. Spellcheck: Like usual but much much quicker.
3. Regex. Option to select: take the case into account.
Look for :
All the concerned words are selected.
Then: Format: change the case : Capital with each word
Result
Most of the words beginning with a capital were changed into words fully in uppercase. The ones which were not included accented lowercase (like Psamnétique), hyphens (SAINT-Césaire), and apostrophes (T'ang, L'Encyclopedia).
I did not try to perfect the first regex to get a 100% transform result because I was afraid I would lose some of them on the return process. Doing this I got back all of them. But of course, it's safer to save your file before...
This way, I was able to peruse the book much more quickly and managed to correct some common words which I would surely have left over not using this method. I believe it can be an acceptable solution for big books containing a lot of new proper names.