Thread: e-Book Tools - a Word add-in
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Old 06-02-2015, 02:42 PM   #221
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
I have recently been working on a handful of books with lots of slang in it. The "Check Dialogue" is becoming nearly impossible to use because every other line is getting a hit:



Perhaps it might be helpful to have some sort of functionality where you could add a list of words that are "valid" apostrophes?
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
Yeah, I can imagine that this would a big nuisance since these are not 'normal' words. Let me think about it and how this would work.
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I run into this ALL THE TIME. I mean...jeeze, kids, put on your big-boy panties, wouldja? You have ANY idea how many modern books are written with "dialect," gods help us all? Here's the answer: A CRAPLOAD. And I find a LOT of mistaken stuff using Check Dialogue, that is simply wrong, not intentional. FWIW. A boatload more than I did before Tox gave us the Wonder Tool.



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