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Old 03-09-2010, 02:58 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
No reason except that you and I and pdurrant and Jellby recognize that these are trivial errors. Most people don't.
But you also said that epubcheck is doing "more harm than good". I strongly disagree with that.

Epubcheck is like a spell checker. It will catch things like "teh" instead of "the", but not "they're" instead of "their", or the more serious grammatical errors. But even within its limited capabilities, a spell checker is extremely useful. Sure, there are those (misguided) people who think that just because their document passes a spell checker it is error-free, but that's not the spell checker's fault.

It's the fault of the bozos who don't know better.

And bashing a spell checker because someone else is a bozo is IMO silly.

Last edited by Valloric; 03-09-2010 at 04:49 PM. Reason: typo... oh the irony
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