Feature Request: Multi-Language Spell Check

[Tex2002ans]

Feature

One of the advantages of Calibre's Spell Check dialog compared to Sigil's is having a Language column along with the list of individual words (based on the EPUB's overall language + HTML lang + xml:lang).

Sigil:

Calibre:

Basic Sample Code

<p>This is an example Spanish sentence: <span xml:lang="es">No señora, no estoy borracho</span>.</p>

<p>This is an example English sentence: <span xml:lang="en">No Ma’am, I’m not drunk</span>.</p>

or attached EPUB.

Why It Is Important

Working with multi-language books, words may be correct in one language but wrong in another + quite often there are overlapping words ("No" in Spanish =/= "No" in English). Currently in Sigil, they appear in the list mashed together.

Helpful Side Functionality

It would be nice to be being able to double click on a word in a language and only jump to the position of the word in that specific language.

I submitted a Calibre Bug Report + details in this thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3323463

Side Note

Having Language in the Spell Check dialog was just one of those things that I previously thought was a teeny advantage in Calibre's favor, until I worked on a large book with thoroughly marked lang attributes.

I suspect this case is relatively rare, but Calibre's Spell Check was very beneficial compared to my preferred tool (Sigil).

[KevinH]

Sigil's interface to the hunspell Spellchecker is now limited to one dictionary at a time. This would take significant work to change this. I will think about this as it is not high priority at the moment given the many pieces of epub3 still yet to support.

That said, the spellcheck interface/hunspell is available to plugins and so someone might be able to pull together a multi-language spellcheck plugin if they were interested.

Thanks for the feature request.

KevinH

[brolny]

I have asked for this for about a year ago,
( https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=265354 )
but it seems to be very difficult to add multi-dictionaries support to the Sigil.

So maybe you can do it in another way?
And even may be really in a more interesting way.

For example, like this.
Add new feature to Sigil – a possibility to perform not “full”/“all-over” spell-check
(as Sigil make spell-check now – in the text inside every HTML tag),
but “specific”/“partial”/“targeted” check-spell – in some HTML tags.
Only in tags with attribute xml:lang with especial value.

According to the dictionary selected on Preferences, eg.
If the dictionary “en_US” is selected – do spell-check of text inside HTML tags with xml:lang="en_US" only etc.
Or do full spell-check, just like now...

What do you think about a feature like this?

[KevinH]

Actually, varlog is attempting to implement this feature and is using a Sigil forum thread to "blog" about his efforts. See the Spellsingers Blog thread.
KevinH