e-Book Tools - a Word add-in

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Its the changes MS make to Windows or more likely Word.

I had a horror stretch with Dialogue Checking for a while, Word would wedge half way though and other programs (Firefox, Chrome, Sigil, Audacity, Shotcut... ) would just die while it was doing its thing - always when it was searching upwards - and it Besodded Windows once or twice.

Seems to have settled down over the last few weeks - tree hug

BR

Yes, they make undocumented changes all the time. Especially the Search and Replace functions are changed a lot, causing all kinds of issue. It makes beta testing also really hard... It seems to slow down indeed.

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Nope, not even near. Sigil is not a word processor. Some functionality could be build into Sigil, but not all. Different use-case.

Yeah, I agree. I was thinking of the "check" things; sorry I wasn't clear about that.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by lumpynose

Yeah, I agree. I was thinking of the "check" things; sorry I wasn't clear about that.

Yeah, no--that's why I use this first. I prefer to put my stuff into Sigil already cleaned, using Sigil as the last step, which saves me all the brain-damage of building an OPF, NCX/Landmarks, breaking it into chapters/HTML files, etc. And packaging, of course.

Hitch

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Yeah, no--that's why I use this first. I prefer to put my stuff into Sigil already cleaned, using Sigil as the last step, which saves me all the brain-damage of building an OPF, NCX/Landmarks, breaking it into chapters/HTML files, etc. And packaging, of course.

Hitch

If I had Word I would but I haven't installed it in decades. I haven't had any need for it and it's (or was) so invasive installing all sorts of crap. (Remember Clippy, Cortana's ancestor?)

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by lumpynose

If I had Word I would but I haven't installed it in decades. I haven't had any need for it and it's (or was) so invasive installing all sorts of crap. (Remember Clippy, Cortana's ancestor?)

Oh, well. I've never had any problems with Word installing "all sorts of crap," myself ...Cortana and Clippy have nothing to do with Word, really; they have to do with MS Windows.

But, that's your call--to each their own. You can use clips in Sigil or any other decent HTML editor to do the same thing--I used to do mine in NoteTAB Pro, (which has a fantastic clip functionality and library) before Toxaris came up with his splended Word plugin.

Hitch

[BetterRed]

Suggestion : incorporate the proselint writing style checker ==>> proselint, in a similar manner as Doitsu has it in his Sigil plugin.

It overlaps with Word's Style checking rules, but its list presentation and hints are a significant improvement over what Word provides.

added: And on large documents I am getting Dialogue Check glitches - as reported previously by myself, Tex2002ans, and others - damn you MS.

BR

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Suggestion : incorporate the proselint writing style checker ==>> proselint, in a similar manner as Doitsu has it in his Sigil plugin.

It overlaps with Word's Style checking rules, but its list presentation and hints are a significant improvement over what Word provides.

added: And on large documents I am getting Dialogue Check glitches - as reported previously by myself, Tex2002ans, and others - damn you MS.

BR

BTW, Tox:

I meant to add, you know that weirdness I have with the settings box being completely blank? So too does Tex2002ans. It's not just me.

Hitch

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Hitch

BTW, Tox:

I meant to add, you know that weirdness I have with the settings box being completely blank? So too does Tex2002ans. It's not just me.

Hitch

Never seen that one - which version of Word are you guys on, I skipped some?

psst: In Word, have you ever tried click'n File->Feedback->Send a Suggestion, here it starts Notepad++, ditto Excel, but not Outlook - go figure

BR

[droopy]

Tox,
do you have your Epub Tools in a portable format? My school's computers restrict installing of your MSI file, but it lets me install stuff I find in PortableApps.com or lets me install Gimp, if I choose to install just for myself.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by droopy

Tox,
do you have your Epub Tools in a portable format? My school's computers restrict installing of your MSI file, but it lets me install stuff I find in PortableApps.com or lets me install Gimp, if I choose to install just for myself.

See post 41

Short answer No.

BR

[BetterRed]

Good news, I think, for me at least.

Over the past several days I've used the Dialogue Checker on several books - the previously reported performance issues appear to have gone.

Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (16.0.13231.20250) 64-bit

BR