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Originally Posted by nexo
I am a litte surprised about the question, why I would need spell checking in book view.
As an author, the only reason for me to use an Epub editor like Sigil is to write a book directly within the Epub editor without the need of a word processor like Word. For the writing process, I naturally use book view, not code view. Code view is required only for formatting purposes.
I do not know whom Sigil sees as their target user group. If it is book authors, all functionality like spell checking and find & replace should be targeted at book view.
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I can't and won't speak for the maintainers, but in the 7-8 years that I've used and been involved with Sigil, it's never--
never--been thought of, or promoted as, a word-processor or word-processor replacement.
Nor was ever targeted at authors. It's always been an XHTML editor for the creation of ePUBs, targeted at users who are already familiar with (or willing to learn) the ins and outs of XHTML and CSS. It's the step you use after you've finished your manuscript in a proper word-processor--not the replacement for Word, et al.
You might try something like AWP (Atlantis Word Processor), if you don't want to use Word. Or OO/LO.
If you're interested, do some searching here on the forum. I believe you'll see the same answer, about Sigil very specifically not being a WP replacement, for pretty much always.
Hitch