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Old 03-24-2020, 05:06 PM   #185
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Originally Posted by Greg Anos View Post
I think you are missing my concern.

I have an epub ebook. It has typos in it. If I load it onto a word processor, and spellcheck, it will find every incident of control information and highlight those as well as the actual typos.

I'm not starting with a word processor file. Most word processors accept many different control element structures (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, ect.) DO any accept Epub constructs?
No. I do not know of any word processors that accept ePUB format. Sigil or Calibre are the only two immediate options, WITH spellcheckers, that jump to mind. I don't think that anything else, other than Blue Griffon, does and I can't in good conscience recommend BG for the stated purpose. I see that it is STILL 195EU, which to my mind, is horribly overpriced, compared to something like Sigil, which is FREE FREE FREE. (I'm truly not pimping for Sigil here, although I think it's pretty fantastic, but BG doesn't really do much that you need for a book.)

AWP (Atlantis Word Processor) is pretty spiffy for a DIYer author, but no, it cannot intake ePUB format. I don't recollect about Jutoh--anybody remember? Oh, wait, Jutoh plus. Jutoh Plus can use scripting, but my inference here is that you don't want to mess with that, is that right?

So...no. Calibre and Sigil, only, I am reasonably certain. Word-processing formatting elemeents are, largely, unsupported in eBooks and vice-versa, so..Sigil or Calibre would be my recommendation for Spellcheck.

But of course, nothing is perfect. I'm not sure that I'm truly answering what you've asked but if you elaborate, I'm sure everyone here will cheerfully jump in.

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