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[kovidgoyal]

@jbacelar: Yeah that is a harmless error I forgot to catch, just ignore it, your words will still be imported.

[Divingduck]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There are already buttons to add and remove words. If you wish to edit, remove and then re-add the changed word.

Kovid,
I just recognize there is a wrong translation for delete words. It say delete books. I have change the translation now (with some other adustmenst and additional translations for this new functions).

[Divingduck]

Kovid,
I had an error warning too with the first import because Calibre was busy with fetching news. I did it once more and then it works w/o any problems. Only as info.

[BetterRed]

The context menu on error list words is excellent, especially having the list of suggested words available.

I would like to request an additional item, copy word to clipboard. I have several on board commercial dictionaries and I often want to look up a misspelt word on the web for etymology etc, having the word in the clipboard would make that easier.

[kovidgoyal]

Doesn't Ctrl+C work?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Doesn't Ctrl+C work?

Of course it does

BR

[Divingduck]

Kovid,
Is there a way I can identify ignored words in the listing? Maybe it is possible to show them with something like "i" for ignored under misspelled. I have recognized you gave them a not shown identifier, because there are listed together when I am sorting the listing. By the way, where do you store this information?

[kovidgoyal]

The list of ignored words is temporary and per session. It is not stored anywhere. Note that when you select any individual word, if it is ignored the button on the right changes its text to "Unignore"

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Doesn't Ctrl+C work?

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Of course it does

BR

Well sort of - problem is that the Word cell is not always the current cell in the list, sometimes I'll get the Count value, and other times I'll get Language value in the clipboard. I see no visual indication that Count or Language is the current cell and even if I could I don't think I can back tab to the Word cell.

Another annoyance is that sometimes I'll inadvertently hit alt/c rather than ctrl/c, that fires the Change selected word too button (quite rightly so) and the I'm left with - what the hell, where did my word go - Undo and Refresh will recover it, but...

For me at least, both issues could be solved by having a Copy Word to clipboard item in the context menu. I doubt there's any purpose in being able to copy the Count or Language cells, but if there was then it can still be done via ctrl/c on the Count or Language cells as I am not suggesting that the current functionality of ctrl/c be changed in any way.

Aside : given everything in the right panel can now be done from the context menu, then in the interests of freeing up screen space the presence of that panel could be configurable via a preference check box setting.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

Kovid,
Is there a way I can identify ignored words in the listing? Maybe it is possible to show them with something like "i" for ignored under misspelled. I have recognized you gave them a not shown identifier, because there are listed together when I am sorting the listing. By the way, where do you store this information?

if Unignore can be written on the button then it should be possible show a value in the list - either in the Misspelled or in a separate Ignored column. Then one could sort on it and see them all at a glance, and Unignore them en-masse.

BR

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Well sort of - problem is that the Word cell is not always the current cell in the list, sometimes I'll get the Count value, and other times I'll get Language value in the clipboard. I see no visual indication that Count or Language is the current cell and even if I could I don't think I can back tab to the Word cell...

I am hoping that I am interpreting you correctly for the following:

The selected cell has a light red small dotted border around it; perhaps hard to see without knowing.

However, whether the following is an issue or just that I haven't worked out the interface I don't know, but if one clicks on a cell, say in the Word column, the red border appears. If one then clicks on another cell in the same row but in another column, say Count, then the red border doesn't necessarily extinguish on the previously clicked cell and so on if one then clicks the Language cell, say. But a further click on a cell may (I think maybe always does) extinguish the previous red borders on the other cells.

However, that said, my experience is that the last left clicked cell is the one that will go to the clipboard with CTRL-C (and, for myself anyway, I never want to copy the language or count cells).

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by AnotherCat

I am hoping that I am interpreting you correctly for the following:

The selected cell has a light red small dotted border around it; perhaps hard to see without knowing.

However, whether the following is an issue or just that I haven't worked out the interface I don't know, but if one clicks on a cell, say in the Word column, the red border appears. If one then clicks on another cell in the same row but in another column, say Count, then the red border doesn't necessarily extinguish on the previously clicked cell and so on if one then clicks the Language cell, say. But a further click on a cell may (I think maybe always does) extinguish the previous red borders on the other cells.

However, that said, my experience is that the last left clicked cell is the one that will go to the clipboard with CTRL-C (and, for myself anyway, I never want to copy the language or count cells).

@AnotherCat - as you say 'hard to see without knowing', I had to use a magnifying glass to see it, so do I set my screen res to VGA, or tie a magnifying glass to the monitor and leave it set at WQXGA

The reason Count and Language get to be the current cell is: if I go to the editing window to do something, or I look a word up in a dictionary or thesaurus (local or online) I will eventually want to return focus to word list - when I'm apt to aim the pointer at the current highlighted line, rather than the Word cell. I guess now I know I'll aim the pointer more carefully.

But I'd rather not use ctrl/c, I'd rather have Copy Word to clipboard in the Context menu then I can do all my bread-and-butter spell checking operations via the context menu. I'm mouse shy because of a physical incapacity due to injury, hence I'm a big user of context menus... via context menu key.

My understanding is that a lot of calibre's UI annoyances are due to Qt library limitations. Kovid has mentioned that working on integrating Qt version 5 into calibre (currently Qt4.?) so...

BR

[AnotherCat]

Yes, it is indeed hard to see, especially as it appears to be overlaid on the cell's normal black border.

The following just as general information to make my case (and show-off ) in case it is easy to change the highlighting:

I have some experience here in another field . As BR may know from boating days a number of underwater offshore installations such as pipelines and submarine cables are shown on charts in magenta; well supposedly magenta as it depends a bit on ones monitor or the temperature of the light if using a paper chart. Some of these features, especially submarine cables which are a thin wavy line, can be easily missed (just like the Calibre cell border highlight) if the line is thin and pale, as it can be on some raster charts.

How red (magenta) came to be used for those charting purposes I don't know but possibly it was decided before it was well known that the sensitivity of human eye photoreceptors is very low for red and so a lot of red is needed for good visibility (green-yellow e.g. like lime, is said to be the best for emergency vehicles and is used here in NZ to some extent or another for ambulances, fire engines and police vehicles; also for high visibility vests). Furthermore, as light levels decrease, red turns to black.

So, it seems to me that two things come out of that with respect to the spell checker cell highlighting. If red is to be used it needs to be bold; so thin and dotted lines should be avoided. And it should not be overlaid over black as in lower light conditions the red will appear as just being part of the black line and so disappear.

The latter point seems to me to be so even with backlit displays (e.g. LCD) as, for example, with the Calibre dotted cell highlighting I can make it turn towards black just by throwing a heavy shadow over that part of the monitor in an otherwise day-lit room (but probably not so with emissive displays e.g. AMOLED).

[BetterRed]

@AnotherCat - I hope your not suggesting replacing the near invisible red dots with lime green dots.

If the current cell in the spell check word list is to be differentiated, then I suggest it be done in the same way that the current cell in the calibre book list is differentiated - make the background colour of the current cell the same darker blue. A means to move the current cell from the keyboard is also needed - maybe the arrow keys could be used, just as they can be used in the book list.

BR

[AnotherCat]

Yep, fluorescent lime would do it (a bit like that smiley, in fact!).

But back to the point, I too would appreciate it being better highlighted, if not very hard to do, for the similar reasons of ease of pasting it into a dictionary. In my case, for example, old books checking spelling and hyphening options against the etymology in the OED.