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enuddleyarbl · 11-25-2022, 12:47 AM

I installed Calibre 6.9 this evening and it looks like it's very nicely sorting the user dictionaries alphabetically.

One thing I'll mention, though, is that the Default dictionary is no longer necessarily listed at the top of the list (it's alphabetical). Thus, I'm not sure if it can any longer be considered the "default" dictionary. I suppose it's "default" in the sense that it's the one that comes with Calibre and will be used if no other dictionaries are installed. But, if there ARE multiple user dictionaries, and any of those come before it alphabetically, then the first in that set will be the one that shows up by default in the list (and will be the one to which words are saved unless manually changed). I don't know if that's the intent. It works fine for me either way. But, I can see that it could be a possible issue with others.

Just thought I'd point it out.

Thanks, again, Kovid.

EDIT: It looks like the lump in the carpet has moved to a different spot now that the old spot has been suitably pummeled. If I right-click on a misspelled word in the text of the book (i.e., not from within the spellchecker tool) and hover over "Add this word to the dictionary," the list that comes up is the old list (sorted chronologically by creation date instead of alphabetically (and linking back to my comment, above, Default is at the top of that list

)). Since I almost never use this mode, I don't have a problem with it. But, for the sake of consistency, I suppose that list ought to look like the one in the spellchecker tool.

11-25-2022, 12:47 AM	#10
enuddleyarbl Guru Posts: 782 Karma: 1538394 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kobo Sage	I installed Calibre 6.9 this evening and it looks like it's very nicely sorting the user dictionaries alphabetically. One thing I'll mention, though, is that the Default dictionary is no longer necessarily listed at the top of the list (it's alphabetical). Thus, I'm not sure if it can any longer be considered the "default" dictionary. I suppose it's "default" in the sense that it's the one that comes with Calibre and will be used if no other dictionaries are installed. But, if there ARE multiple user dictionaries, and any of those come before it alphabetically, then the first in that set will be the one that shows up by default in the list (and will be the one to which words are saved unless manually changed). I don't know if that's the intent. It works fine for me either way. But, I can see that it could be a possible issue with others. Just thought I'd point it out. Thanks, again, Kovid. EDIT: It looks like the lump in the carpet has moved to a different spot now that the old spot has been suitably pummeled. If I right-click on a misspelled word in the text of the book (i.e., not from within the spellchecker tool) and hover over "Add this word to the dictionary," the list that comes up is the old list (sorted chronologically by creation date instead of alphabetically (and linking back to my comment, above, Default is at the top of that list )). Since I almost never use this mode, I don't have a problem with it. But, for the sake of consistency, I suppose that list ought to look like the one in the spellchecker tool. Last edited by enuddleyarbl; 11-25-2022 at 01:00 AM.