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Old 09-18-2015, 09:38 AM   #2
KevinH
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Hi,

Possibly. It depends... Loading Hunspell dictionaries can be a quite time consuming task for many languages which would greatly slow down the ability to do inline spell-checking while editing.

If a user actually has already installed all of the proper dictionaries, it would seem easy to keep of stack of xml:lang attributes from your span tags (pushing and popping off values when then appear and disappear) so that Sigil always knew the current language. So coding it is certainly possible.

But given our finite volunteer development time, I would put this feature request far down on the list after support for epub3 features.

That said, it would easy for someone to write a plugin that could do this once Sigil 0.8.900 is finally released (which should be soon but we are having trouble with compiler/dll hell (mixing) on Windows that we have to figure out first).

KevinH
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