Misspellings are marked in read. Is there a way to automatically go to each one so I can fix them manually and not waste time finding them?
Misspellings are marked in read. Is there a way to automatically go to each one so I can fix them manually and not waste time finding them?
When writing emails etc on this website.
There is a Chrome Extension, LanguageTool that will do this. Grammarly can do it as well. And there are others.
most if not all current desktop publishing apps, MS Word, Libre Writer etc have a system for doing this semi-manually. look for things like F7 - spelling and the find - replace wizard
Kind of obvious, but please note that these answers are for correcting spelling in YOUR documents, NOT correcting words in the stories that you are reading on this site
But after you download and edit a story, it becomes your document. You are editing it on your computer, not on the website.
Oh, I am aware that what I do is fine. I was more questioning whether the editing the original was a moot point anyway as that should not be possible, by anyone other than the author.
What jim2q said.
You can correct pretty much anything, but only for you alone.
Also, as Freyrs_stories has commented, some of those misteaks, mistrakes, misstakes... screwups, were on purpose. Your computer probably won't manage to CORRECT ALL, while NOT correcting the intentionally wrong
Case in point, .
Automiscorrect REPEATEDLY changed this phrase:
some of those misteaks, mistrakes, misstakes...
to this phrase:
some of those mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
if we're talking 'client end' corrections from a 'server hosted document' then this is extremely complicated and I'm not currently aware of any system that could begin to approach this type of functionality without heavy AI implementation and even then I don't know how it could differentiate between a genuine published mistake and an intentional one where for example the author is using a non-standard spelling to emphasise a particular enunciation or exaggeration of a common word. and this is way before you consider local differences. how man times have you seen a word in 'Engish' become unintelligible when alternating between British and American 'standards'. Even words with identical spelling and pronunciation can have opposite meanings. the phrase 'to table something' has reversed implications between UK and USA usage.
Now, it is relatively straight forward to 'see' an error especially one compared to a 'local list' or 'dictionary'. For any implementation of an actual user end or custom correction, as you are implying simply does not exist on the internet as it currently stands. if one were to look at a problem of similar complexity then the file table as a database concept which prevented the deployment of 'Longhorn' before it was eventually abandoned by Microsoft gives an idea where this would go. Microsoft a truly massive company with effectively unlimited resources could not solve this 'simple' problem internally.
to explain why I say they are similar a file table, traditionally stored as an array, works very similarly to a spreadsheet (excel), and a database (access) is a series of joined spreadsheets. on the surface this would not seem a massive jump but it is many orders of exponent higher than just joining a few arrays together. computers are very fast, they are however very stupid too and such a programmatical undertaking is beyond any current system let alone a single web master.
the only way forward I could hope to see this idea having any chance would be via a local AI system which would be responsible for interpreting every line of text you receive on your screen and I can't see many people accepting that type of intrusion regardless of the source or intent of whomever wrote / trained such an AI.
I am not trying to be rude or terse, just trying to state explicitly why this is easily possible in a locally edited document but functionally impossible on a hosted one. even this response would totally confuse any current AI, before you try and accommodate any typos. as you did not clearly state in your original posting that you referred to an online document and I feel confident that most people who read the post assumed local you can start to see just how hard this problem is to solve.
I was asking for a search fiction that would visit each error in a document so I could correct them.
That's your own app or word processor. You'd make all corrections (or add/ignore) at your end before uploading the text to SOL.