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Originally Posted by KevinH
What is the use case that requires file by file spellchecking?
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It's a long book in German, hundreds of pages long, over 100 sections, that I'm trying to clean up as much as possible, bit by bit,
before actually reading it, so that I won't be so distracted by mistakes while reading. It's strenuous enough reading it without distractions! Some errors will remain, but at least there won't be so many. There are hundreds of misspelled words, or at least flagged as misspelled, either because OCR thought the letter c was an e, a lower case L was the digit 1, the letter t was a lower case L; because a period or some other mark was inserted in the middle of a word for no reason ("ei.ther"), etc.; because words have been split where they shouldn't have been (such as "rea ding" instead of "reading"); because the words are compounds that are actually correct; because a word is more dialect or slang ("nuthin doin"); or because the book uses traditional orthography instead of reformed orthography, and Sigil's built-in dictionary uses the reformed orthography.
It's easier to scroll down the list and wait for things to catch my eye, click on them and check whether within the context they're correct or not (it can vary, and many I have to confirm with the printed edition), than to go through one by one clicking "ignore," "ignore," "ignore," etc.
I have already caught most of the errors, I think, but up until today I never understood why the spelling checker started with certain words. I've never used Spellcheck before, certainly never with the German dictionary, but still, to my shame, I must admit that up to the time I posted my question, I didn't realize that it was starting in reverse alphabetical order (with words beginning with the letter ü), or that you could set the list to normal alphabetical order, which in itself makes things a lot easier, because I'll be able to note better where in the alphabet I left off.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question and propose possible solutions.