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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Tex2002ans - I'd never looked at Sigil's spell checker until I thought of it as something that might help with OP's I-want-ems-not-hyphens problem.
I really like it, I recall seeing the presentation of misspellings in a similar list arrangement like Sigil's once before, in an add-in for Lotus Notes—loud groans are welcome—I find it much better than the more often used in line highlighting.
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I was the one that recommended it be added into Sigil!! And if I recall correctly, it was put in ASAP. It is/was incredible.
Before that, I was using the Index Tool to generate a word list, and using the filter in that to catch hyphenated words. Quite convoluted, but it worked better than anything else I had run across!
The Spell Check Word List was something I had in the back of my mind for YEARS as a very useful tool, but never saw it used anywhere in my life. It is also one of those "killer features" of Sigil that makes it indispensable for me.
It is the best tool for catching/fixing hyphens, and it is also useful having a "Word Count" of spellings. I can easily see the words and how many times they occur. It is fantastic for catching:
- Accented Words
- If the book flip flops between accented/unaccented versions, it is most likely a typo.
- 6 "regime" and 1 "régime"
- Mispelled Names
- An error in a name most likely occurs less than a handful of times (< 4). So you can just sort by frequency, and take a close look at all the words that occur less than 4 times.
- Hyphenated vs. unhyphenated words
- A hyphenated + unhyphenated version of a word doesn't occur too often in the same book. You either go with one or the other consistently throughout the work.
- "step-father" + "stepfather"
- "mis-information" + "misinformation"
- "business-man" + "businessman"
- "life-like" + "lifelike"
It also is extremely helpful that you can sort by Case Sensitive or Case Insensitive. And also extremely helpful that you can toggle just a list of Mispelled Words, OR, a list of all words.
There was also this EPUB Spell Checker tool that came out back in September 2013:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2667112
I recommended a few things in Post #9 + #10.
I also have my own ideas for my own custom tools... Although I have yet to get around to programming them (always getting delayed by other projects, and converting many more books).
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Sigil's spell check is very good, based on how I use it. It allows sweeping up many mistakes at once and also allows you to triage which to fix first based on how often it appears.
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