[Wish] - Book specific user dictionary

[BetterRed]

What the title says, with an action to copy a Book dictionary to the clipboard, and another action to paste it as a user dictionary for use when editing other Books.

[DNSB]

I voted Don't care. I have no use for this feature and am not even certain what a book dictionary would consist of.

OTOH, I think that such a dictionary would be a very difficult item to create. Are you planning on giving most words in an ePub file links to a footnote that displays a definition of the word? Inflections are going to be a killer. Perhaps loading a mass of dictionaries onto the ereader to allow the user to select that dictionary similar to the Tolkien, WoT and Cosmere dictionaries? Not sure what the naming would look like since a Kobo wants a valid 2 character language code unless you want to see dicthtml-tolkien.zip

[BetterRed]

A calibre spellcheck user dictionary is a list of tokens with language tags in a json file… nothing to do with Kobo or any other e-reader. FTR: A sigil spellcheck user dictionary is less than that, just a list of tokens a file.

My wish stems from a task of copy editing 30+ rather poorly translated Russian long read essays full of domain specific terms that the author and translator hope to get published in an English language periodical.

BR

[DNSB]

Sorry but you mentioned copy/pasting into a book and as far as I am aware, calibre’s editor can add user dictionaries in LibreOffice’s OXT format. Are you checking the translation against the original Russian text? English grammar, sentence structure and word usage? Or are you simply generating a misspelled exception list to be used across multiple books.

[BetterRed]

I've clarified the opening post.

In essence they would be the converse of MS Word's exclusion dictionaries.

BR

[Quoth]

I do have book, series and subject domain custom dictionaries on LO Writer. I'd only occasionally use the spelling checker in Calibre Editor on ebooks that have been poorly proofed after OCR. If really bad, I'd export as a docx/rtf etc and edit in a word processor.

I found it pretty easy to adapt MS Word dictonaries simply by editing the header.

[BetterRed]

The calibre editor's list of misspelt words with its filter and sort features is better for some tasks that any word processor (including add-ons) I'm aware of - e.g. to help identify potential inconsistencies in proper nouns - Ashford v Ashwood.

I sometimes convert DOCX texts to EPUB for no other purpose than to use it's Spellcheck and Reports features.

BR

[JeanM]

J'aimerai assez avoir une extension permettant de récupérer le contenu d'un ou plusieurs dictionnaires utilisateur le sauvegarder dans le epub (dico.xml, par exemple) en vidant le fichier « ~/.config/calibre/dictionaries/prefs.json » et pouvoir recharger le contenu dans l'environnement de l'éditeur. Je sais que ce n'est pas prévu dans la norme mais ce serait particulièrement pratique.

I would quite like to have an extension allowing to retrieve the contents of one or more user dictionaries, save them in the epub (dico.xml, for example) by emptying the file "~/.config/calibre/dictionaries/prefs.json" and be able to reload the contents in the editor environment. I know that this is not provided for in the standard but it would be particularly practical.