I would suggest that it work something like this:

In the Map Editor, or in the Project View, select a new command: Check Spelling

If you were in Map Editor, it would start going through all the topic files referenced by topicref
If you were in Project View, it would go through all the files currently visible in the filter, or currently selected

It would scan each file for spelling problems.

If it doesn't find any (in any of the files), it would report that.
But if it does find any errors, it would open that topic file in the editor, and then kick off the normal file-based spell checker.

When that file-based process is done, ideally it would continue with the map/project-based process.
But even if it stopped after checking all the errors in that single file, and you had to manually re-start the map/project spell check, it would be a lot easier than what we have now.

So, this might be easier than what you describe. I don't think it's necessary to generate a report in the error panel at the bottom of the screen, as for error checking. That would be cool, but not necessary. All it would really need to do is find each file, open it in the background, run a check; if spelling errors found, open the file, and start the usual spell-check process; if not, close the file and move on to the next.

What do you think?

Thanks!
Seraphim

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Sorin Ristache <sorin@oxygenxml.com> wrote:

Hello,

Now spell checking is applied only to the current file opened in an editor panel and the errors are corrected in interactive mode: mark an unknown word by selecting it in the editor panel and ignore or replace it with a suggestion from the spell dictionary, mark the next unknown word, etc. Running the spell checker in non-interactive mode (on a set of files specified in a project or a DITA map) implies a change in the mechanism for reporting and correcting the errors (for example to display a list with all errors in a panel at the bottom of the Oxygen window as in the case of the Find/Replace dialog vs. the Find All action) and also implies adapting the spell checking implementation to files not opened in an editor panel which is not trivial. Anyway we will consider your request for a future version of Oxygen.

Thank you,
Sorin

Seraphim Larsen wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to submit a feature request. Currently, it appears you can run Spell Checker on only one file at a time.

It would be nice to be able to run Spell Checker on multiple files in one operation:

* Run Spell Checker on all files found inside a DITA Map
* Run Spell Checker on all files in a Project

Thanks very much!
Seraphim

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