Suggesting always the assumed misspelled word in the spellchecker
Bug #1667914 reported by
Ómar S Harðarson
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
While I applaud the resolution to ticket 1664284, I often come across situations where a misspelled word cannot be found in the dictionary (e.g. misspelled words, or fantasy world words created by the author), but the spell checker suggests a lot of alternatives. I suggest that the assumed misspelled word should be one of the options by default, thus resolving ticket 1664284 and improve the functionality.
I'm using Calibre version 2.80.0, both 64 and 32 bit, running on Windows 10 in both cases.
Thank you ever so much for the product, it only gets better.
Ómar
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The problem with doing that is the question becomes, where to insert the
original word in the list? If you insert it at the top, it is
sub-optimal for words where the suggestions are useful, if you insert it
at the bottom, it becomes painful for the use case you describe -- of
the suggestions list having lots of incorrect entries.
Also, I'm not actually clear on the utility of this. For the use case
you describe -- using a spell checker in a book with lots of domain
special words -- wouldn't the most common operation be to add the word
to the ignored list or a user dictionary? This is not affected by the
suggestions list at all.