[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Mbear

High has anyone noticed that spellcheck in Sigil picks up words like the name of a person such as Clayton at the end of a sentence and includes the full stop and shows both Clayton and Clayton., as being incorrect. This behavior appears to be a recent event.

This change occurred in March 2022, Sigil 1.9.1.

The changelog said:

• Extend spellcheck suggestions to properly handle end of sentence vs abbreviations

Originally Posted by elibrarian

So I found out that in the danish hunspell .aff-file of 2022 there is a line starting with

REP $_ ._

and if I comment that out (putting a # before REP $_ ._ ), the spell checker in Sigil reverts to the old behavior.

[...]

I can't find that line in the english hunspell .aff files, and haven't checked other languages. But maybe this can help someone, somewhere

Fantastic. Thank you for that info.

Originally Posted by elibrarian

(And of course, if the dog in reality lies buried somewhere else in the spellchecker, it would be nice to know the correct way of toggling it.)

Yeah, I spoke about this in private to KevinH when it was implemented, and STRONGLY recommended against it.

The amount of acronym-periods vs. sentence-ending-periods are astronomical.

And to heavily weigh Spellcheck Lists:

• Correct acroynms vs. Wrong sentence-enders (Sigil 1.9.1+)
  
  • "F.B.I." vs. "Clayton."
    
• vs. "Wrong" acroynms vs. Correct sentence-enders (<=Sigil 1.9.0)
  
  • "F.B.I" vs. "Clayton"
    

It also completely distorts the sortability/skimmability of lists + accuracy of word counts + makes it more annoying to "Ignore" all cases of a misspelled word.

There just isn't any comparison in my mind.

The amount of correct acronyms would be heavily outweighed by "wrong" spelling (red squigglies) on every single book's usage of sentence-ending periods.

Originally Posted by KevinH

If you want to revert to the earlier behaviour, install an older hunspell dictionary into your Sigil Preferences and it will disable that new feature as the dictionary itself has to be designed to support proper spellchecking of abbreviations.

This is A solution, but I still don't think it's a user-friendly one.

I'll continue being grumpy about this change... but great work on the rest of Sigil's enhancements though! Still my favorite EPUB editor ever!