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Originally Posted by BobC
The excluding files actually highlights the point that the spelling checker only works on the entire book (unless someone knows different). I wonder if it would be possible to apply it one file at a time, handy for big books where it would reduce the "clutter" that needs inspection.
BobC
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In principle I think it makes sense to spell check the whole book, because the same errors often occur in multiple files, IMO better to knock 'em off once.
I also use spell check to checkout commonly misspelt words. I was cleaning up a paper from a law school (the one that begins with Y that had a student called Dubbya). Over 30 occurrences of breech that should have been breach and none that remained as breech
If the exclusion was done with exclude/include options on the file context menu then that should cater for my wish to exclude front/back matter files or yours to spell check chapter by chapter.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Same with coding a little program for yourself, sure, you might be the only one looking at it, but you never know what might happen in the future (or writing comments/clean code for your future "self" (many times you look back at old code and think "who wrote this crap?" or "What the hell was I thinking?")).
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No matter who wrote it and no matter how well, if its declarative code I always ask who 'who rote this crap'. What was wrong with Courier New on Gestetner stencils or the smell of hot metal anyway :lol: Just had a flashback to paper tape and Friden Flexowriters
BR