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Old 04-01-2018, 12:18 AM   #9
Steven Karp
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Okay, I've spent some time poking around in the Sigil forum.

As I understand it, the major concern seems to be, in essence, "where do you put the cursor" relative to the actual HTML markup that's not visible when looking at a WYSIWYG view.

I see the relevance.

BUT.

In the form I've described the functionality I'd like, I think it's nearly a non-issue. As a general rule, you don't get tags in mid-word. So if the "Typo Corrector" is only available when the user selects a single word (i.e. a string of printable characters bounded by whitespace (or possibly an HTML tag), and you only allow limited space for entry, the chances of screwing up your document are somewhere between slim and infinitesimal.

Really, it's more of a "search and replace" without the "search" than an actual editor.

Does that simplify the problem space enough to make it feasible?

And again, am I the only person obsessive enough to want to fix typos but not obsessive enough to launch the editor?
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