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Tex2002ans · 07-06-2014, 05:42 AM

Hmmm... so today I was fiddling around some more with the Calibre Spell Check tool, and I stumbled across this problem.

The hyphen '-' should be considered a legitimate character for a word. Example of how it currently works:

The word "non-fiction" is seen as two words, "non" and "fiction".
The word "micro-economics" is seen as two words, "micro" and "economics".
The word "anti-establishment" is seen as two words, "anti" and "establishment".

A few reasons why this fix would be extremely useful:

1. I use this ALL THE TIME in Sigil in order to catch usages of non-hyphenated and hyphenated versions of words. It is QUITE a common OCR error, where you might have mixes of "nonfiction" + "non-fiction", "co-operating" + "cooperating", "counter-clockwise" + "counterclockwise", "short-term" + "shortterm" in the same book. These typically then have to be made consistent/normalized throughout the book.

2. It makes it quite helpful to catch accidental hyphens in author's first/last names. For example, "Black-well" -> "Blackwell", "How-den" -> "Howden", "Lach-mann" -> "Lachmann", "Lee-son" -> "Leeson".

07-06-2014, 05:42 AM	#4
Tex2002ans Wizard Posts: 2,297 Karma: 12126329 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Forma, Nook	Hmmm... so today I was fiddling around some more with the Calibre Spell Check tool, and I stumbled across this problem. The hyphen '-' should be considered a legitimate character for a word. Example of how it currently works: The word "non-fiction" is seen as two words, "non" and "fiction". The word "micro-economics" is seen as two words, "micro" and "economics". The word "anti-establishment" is seen as two words, "anti" and "establishment". A few reasons why this fix would be extremely useful: 1. I use this ALL THE TIME in Sigil in order to catch usages of non-hyphenated and hyphenated versions of words. It is QUITE a common OCR error, where you might have mixes of "nonfiction" + "non-fiction", "co-operating" + "cooperating", "counter-clockwise" + "counterclockwise", "short-term" + "shortterm" in the same book. These typically then have to be made consistent/normalized throughout the book. 2. It makes it quite helpful to catch accidental hyphens in author's first/last names. For example, "Black-well" -> "Blackwell", "How-den" -> "Howden", "Lach-mann" -> "Lachmann", "Lee-son" -> "Leeson". Last edited by Tex2002ans; 07-06-2014 at 06:59 AM.