Improve Spellcheck for Multiple Files
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:44 am
I've been launching "Check Spelling in Files" from the DITA Map Manager. It's a useful feature, but one thing about it is frustrating. The list of misspelled words is frozen in time, and you have to open the affected topics one at a time. This means that if there is a particular word that is flagged as misspelled in multiple topics, and you open the first topic and add that word to the dictionary, then the list of misspelled words in later topics continues to show all instances of that word. So you can end up opening topics where you have already added all the "misspelled" words while editing a previous topic.
It would be much easier if you could click Check Spelling for the currently opened file, and after checking the current file, it could offer to proceed to spell check the remaining topics in the order they appear in the ditamap. It should open the next topic that has a misspelled word. After you fix that topic, it should jump to the next topic with a misspelled word, and so forth. This is how spellcheck works in Author-it, for example.
Thanks for considering this suggestion.
It would be much easier if you could click Check Spelling for the currently opened file, and after checking the current file, it could offer to proceed to spell check the remaining topics in the order they appear in the ditamap. It should open the next topic that has a misspelled word. After you fix that topic, it should jump to the next topic with a misspelled word, and so forth. This is how spellcheck works in Author-it, for example.
Thanks for considering this suggestion.