e-Book Tools - a Word add-in

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

No, the selected custom dictionary is used

...

my spelling procedure works differently, that is no need for a restart.

Fair enough - I'll leave the Spellchecker in abeyance until the next version and have another look.

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[Toxaris]

Version 1.20.0 is released.

Please check the changelog for all changes. Main changes are a new feature to mark text based on a XML list. This list can of course be edited. Please see documentation for the XML structure. The markings will be colorcoded if this option is selected in the settings for the preparation procedure. The color can be selected.
Also words can now be added to the main exclusion list.

[BetterRed]

Thanks for the Mark tool - essentially it goes a long way to fulfilling this wish:-

Originally Posted by BetterRed

do you happen to know of a Word add-in that extends and persists Word's Find and Replace history.

Suggested improvement - if nothing is entered in Settings->Mark tag do not insert empty tags (i.e. '[]' and '[/]') around the 'word'. For me the highlight is usually enough. When Whole Word is False the tags obfuscate and create 'spelling errors'



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[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Thanks for the Mark tool - essentially it goes a long way to fulfilling this wish:-



Suggested improvement - if nothing is entered in Settings->Mark tag do not insert empty tags (i.e. '[]' and '[/]') around the 'word'. For me the highlight is usually enough. When Whole Word is False the tags obfuscate and create 'spelling errors'



BR

No problem. The request sounds reasonable. I will incorporate it.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

No problem. The request sounds reasonable. I will incorporate it.

- does the tool to edit the table that Mark uses operate directly on the XML file. It feels a lot 'smoother' than the similar table used by S&R, which as I recall edits Word tables.

BR

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

- does the tool to edit the table that Mark uses operate directly on the XML file. It feels a lot 'smoother' than the similar table used by S&R, which as I recall edits Word tables.

BR

Yes and no. It does operate directly on the XML file, but it reads the XML file into a in-memory dataset. Actually, it works the same as the S&R editor. The core is identical. I changed the S&R editor some time ago to work internally with dataset and datatables instead on the Word file itself. That was around the time of the introduction of the XML S&R file. It also made the editor much faster.

[BetterRed]

Using version 1.20.1

If I 'clear' the Mark Tag it doesn't persist as 'cleared'. Next time I go into Settings->Mark either to select a different word list, or change the current one it reverts to 'ToxarisMark'.

The Up/Down 'hands' in the editor don't seem to function, I want to keep things in alphabetical order so I can see what's there in a glance.

BR

[Toxaris]

That is correct. In the old release it is not allowed to be empty. Also, if you would clear it manually, the marking would be [] and [/] as you noticed. This has been changed already a few days ago (but not yet released).

I will check the Up/Down button in the editor and will add a button to sort it alphabetically with taking cultural settings into account.

*Fix is released and the a sort button added*

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

That is correct. In the old release it is not allowed to be empty. Also, if you would clear it manually, the marking would be [] and [/] as you noticed. This has been changed already a few days ago (but not yet released).

I will check the Up/Down button in the editor and will add a button to sort it alphabetically with taking cultural settings into account.

*Fix is released and the a sort button added*

- empty tag is fixed.

Thanks for the sort button. Assuming Save button is used, then: the sorted list isn't saved, but a manually reordered list is. My preference would be that the list is also saved after sorting.

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[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

- empty tag is fixed.

Thanks for the sort button. Assuming Save button is used, then: the sorted list isn't saved, but a manually reordered list is. My preference would be that the list is also saved after sorting.

BR

After sorting you need to save the list yourself, that will not change. After all, there could be reasons you don't want to save the list after all. Either way, to leave the editor you either have to click 'Cancel' or 'Save', so saving it after sorting will not save you a click.

[elibrarian]

When using the spellchecker (version 1.20.x), I sometimes want to make changes in the suggestion in the "Manual correction" box. But whenever I write a letter in the box corresponding to one of the shortcut keys in the box, the letter is written in the first position of the box, and the shortcut fires simultaneously. Which behaviour makes the spellchecker unusable (this tool, by the way, is brillant - I use your spellchecker all the time instead of the crappy thing MS put into Word 2013).

I am using Word 2010/2013 (both 32-bit) on a 64-bit Windows 10 machine, if that's of any consequence (?). I don't recall this problem from pre-1.20 versions of ePub-tools.

Regards

Kim

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by elibrarian

When using the spellchecker (version 1.20.x), I sometimes want to make changes in the suggestion in the "Manual correction" box. But whenever I write a letter in the box corresponding to one of the shortcut keys in the box, the letter is written in the first position of the box, and the shortcut fires simultaneously. Which behaviour makes the spellchecker unusable (this tool, by the way, is brillant - I use your spellchecker all the time instead of the crappy thing MS put into Word 2013).

I am using Word 2010/2013 (both 32-bit) on a 64-bit Windows 10 machine, if that's of any consequence (?). I don't recall this problem from pre-1.20 versions of ePub-tools.

Regards

Kim

I knew there was a reason I didn't use hotkeys before in the spelling form... This is an unfortunate side effect. I will see if I can work around it.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

After sorting you need to save the list yourself, that will not change. After all, there could be reasons you don't want to save the list after all. Either way, to leave the editor you either have to click 'Cancel' or 'Save', so saving it after sorting will not save you a click.

In EpubTools->Settings->Mark->Edit Document I see an unsorted list, so I click the Sort button and the list is sorted on screen. I then click then Save & Close button, then I click on Exit with Save on Exit checked.

I go back into EpubTools->Settings->Mark->Edit Document and I see the same unsorted list.

When I look at the timestamps of C:\_Miscellaneous\myMarkRules.xml (the file I specified) and %APPDATA%\Toxaris\ePUBToolsMarkRules.xml they have been changed, but when I look at the contents of both files they are not sorted.

What am I doing wrong.

BR

[Toxaris]

No idea yet. I checked it a couple of times and the sorted list was stored and read.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

No idea yet. I checked it a couple of times and the sorted list was stored and read.

I betcha it's the XML file I created (myMarkRules). There's no apparent way to create a new Mark Rules list, and I couldn't find a sample - so I conjured up this as a starting point, it appears to work except for saving the list sorted

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<MarkRules>
  <Mark>
    <Wildcards>False</Wildcards>
    <CaseSensitive>False</CaseSensitive>
    <WholeWord>True</WholeWord>
    <Search>contingent</Search>
  </Mark>
   ...
   ...
   ...
</MarkRules>

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