02-14-2014, 02:40 AM | #16 |
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02-14-2014, 03:11 AM | #17 |
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02-14-2014, 04:38 AM | #18 |
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You will learn to appreciate them when you have lots of badly scanned/OCR-ed documents with ocean's of corrupted words and not having a Monks patience ...
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02-14-2014, 11:04 AM | #20 |
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I would rank macro's above spell check for similar reasons to elibrarian's.
optional PIs to convert Notepad's Clips, Word's WordBasic and OOo's StarBasic macros to whatever is used by this editor. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 02-14-2014 at 11:06 AM. |
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02-14-2014, 11:10 AM | #21 |
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I would put spell check down the list.
You should be able to spell check the in Sources in word/writer... That may leave the TOC (it not generated from headings) as unchecked. |
02-14-2014, 12:02 PM | #22 |
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The macro function which somewhat covers the clips function is what is more important, but for me, spell check would be second.
It depends on what you are starting with. If it is OCR then spelling is pretty important, but if it comes out of a word processor, the spelling recedes into the background pretty fast. |
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02-14-2014, 04:24 PM | #24 |
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I know one can never truly keep control of a thread once it's born, but...
I'm sure there's all kinds of feature request threads out there for calibre's editor, so I'm thinking a lot of these ideas might find a better home in one of them. Or maybe a plugin-wishlist thread is order. Rather than a "what kind of plugins do we want" kind of thing, I believe Kovid's at the earlier (and much more "meta") phase of "what do I make accessible (and how) so that plugin developers can do a variety of things that interest them?" Or at least thinking about that sort of stuff, anyway. For a future rainy day. This was only intended (on my part, anyway) to be sort of a "how best to present/expose stuff, so third parties can do stuff with that stuff" conversation. You know... meta-stuffs. |
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02-15-2014, 07:04 AM | #26 |
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Since few of us really understand which is best handled by what, it is not unhelpful to throw it all out there and let those who do know something sort it out.
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02-15-2014, 07:32 AM | #27 |
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Fair enough.
It just didn't seem likely to me that a spell-checker vs macro feature debate would be very helpful in this regard. In fact, it doesn't seem very likely to me that either would be very good candidates for what might easily be provided via whatever plugin functionality happens to evolve. They both sound more like core features to me. Could be wrong, though. Wouldn't mind a bit if I was. |
02-15-2014, 02:55 PM | #28 |
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As long as we're blue-skying here, I'd like to see a "pipe to" facility. It would work somewhat like the "open with" in the older, now abandoned editor (ONAE), but provide full-duplex I/O to any arbitrary executable you might like. The ONAE seemed to presume that just an editor was to be opened, all the input sent to it at once, the editor does its thing and then sends back all output at once. I couldn't get it to handle read-a-line, modify, write-a-line (RMW) interleaving. The more general pipe-to would allow you to write a batch (or shell) script to do most anything you want. With the RMW idea you could write a script to do most of what a plug-in would do and even more. The essential idea is that it turns search-replace on its head. With S/R, you apply one search pattern and one replace pattern to the entire file and then go on with the next S/R and start over with the top of the file. With the RMW idea, you apply all S/R patterns to a single line, write it out and then do the same thing to the next line. Everything is done in a single pass through the file. You should be able to pipe a set of html lines to the system sort program, for instance. Or pass a bunch of html through the C pre-processor or any other macro processor. Or copy the input to a disk file.
Another separate feature that would work well with this and the built-in S/R would be the ability to mark or highlight a set of code lines and restrict the S/R (or pipe-to) to just those lines. You wouldn't often want to sort an entire file of html code, but I often want to sort a list written in html. |
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Another separate feature that would work well with this and the built-in S/R would be the ability to mark or highlight a set of code lines and restrict the S/R (or pipe-to) to just those lines....
This function is already available by highlighting the text and right clicking mark selected text. |
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