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Doitsu · 09-02-2013, 03:10 AM

Thanks for the developing this software. I gave it a spin yesterday and found the concept quite interesting, because none of the spell checkers that I know uses word frequencies to suggest spelling alternatives.

I'd be nice if you could make the types of warnings/errors being displayed user-selectable. For example, in my pdf, the Unneeded hyphen warning was 99% of the time wrong and I'd like to be able to hide those suggestions. Also the software often thought that uncommon plural forms ending in s where errors. Maybe you could add an additional check to your algorithm that will try to find the word without the final s in the dictionary, before flagging it as an error.

It'd also be nice to have an option to add document/font specific suggestions. For example, in the document that I'm working on "ll" was often incorrectly recognized as "U". If the spell checker "knew" that, it could make more meaningful suggestions.

And finally, it'd be nice if the text displayed in the KWIC window could be copied to the clipboard. (Currently it's read-only.)

09-02-2013, 03:10 AM	#2
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,737 Karma: 24031401 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	Thanks for the developing this software. I gave it a spin yesterday and found the concept quite interesting, because none of the spell checkers that I know uses word frequencies to suggest spelling alternatives. I'd be nice if you could make the types of warnings/errors being displayed user-selectable. For example, in my pdf, the Unneeded hyphen warning was 99% of the time wrong and I'd like to be able to hide those suggestions. Also the software often thought that uncommon plural forms ending in s where errors. Maybe you could add an additional check to your algorithm that will try to find the word without the final s in the dictionary, before flagging it as an error. It'd also be nice to have an option to add document/font specific suggestions. For example, in the document that I'm working on "ll" was often incorrectly recognized as "U". If the spell checker "knew" that, it could make more meaningful suggestions. And finally, it'd be nice if the text displayed in the KWIC window could be copied to the clipboard. (Currently it's read-only.)