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Feature Request: Multi-Language Spell Check

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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: Attachment 148897

Calibre: Attachment 148898

Basic Sample Code

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:

http://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). :)

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File Type: epub Spell Checking Languages - Bug Report.epub (1.8 KB)

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