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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Be nice to have the ability to exclude paragraphs too - to avoid checking quotes in the original vernacular - eg Chaucer, Shakespeare etc 
BR |
Just thinking laterally on this - if you consider the paragraphs as being in a "foreign" language for which there is no dictionary would this do the trick ?
So you would need to set the paragraph to have a style where the language code was say "en-oe" (for Old English). The trouble here would be that doing may be more effort than the benefit. It would mean wrapping the portion of text in a <div lang="en-oe"> or using CSS styling to achieve the same effect.
If Calibre interpreted "en-oe" as English it might need a dummy language code.
HOWEVER a quick check seems to indicate that the Editor will treat any declared language code for which it doesn't have a dictionary as that of the main file declaration or in the absence of a language declaration in the header as English (at least on my machine).
So a workaround would appear to be to install a dictionary with no words in common with English (Klingon ?) and declare the undesired paragraphs as that language.
Of course if there was actually a "en-oe" dictionary that would be great.
EDIT - given the context Middle English might have been a better suggestion, however it's the general principle I was trying to illustrate.
BobC