Sugg: "Reported Typos" visual filter

Ward Walker

It would be nice to be able to turn on a visual filter in L4 that would indicate what words folks have already reported as typos--especially when I'm offline, since it is a huge hassle to remember to report them once I'm re-connected to the Internet.  Perhaps something subtle like a light gray shading/light red outline behind/around the text.

P.S.  Why not cache the "Report Typos" when not connected?  Instead, the feature just disappears. [:(]

Rosie Perera

I've created a Reported Typo highlighting style which I apply to the selection after reporting a typo:

Here's the style definition:

I assign that to T as a keyboard shortcut to make it easy to apply as soon as I've reported the typo:

And here's what it looks like in the text:

(The purple text is the prefix added by the highlighting style, the yellow highlighted text is the actual typo -- only a coincidence that both words say "typo" -- the latter was supposed to be "type").

EDIT: Incidentally, that only shows me what I've reported as a typo already. It would indeed be very nice to see what other folks have already reported. I'm not sure that would be so easy for Logos to do, since essentially they'd have to have us download patches to each of the resources that have had typos reported in order for the resources to be able to show highlighting on the reported typos, and at that point they might as well fix them. I don't want to have to download a patch once every time a typo is reported and then again when the typo is fixed. If they can come up with some other way to implement your request without doing patches, I'd be all for it.

As for the hassle of remembering to report typos once I'm reconnected to the Internet, I keep a Notes file called Typos to Report; then if I find a typo when I'm offline, instead of reporting it as I would normally do, I right click on it and add a note to that Notes file with the correction text. That way the note keeps track of the link to where in what resource the typo is, as well as the corrected text. So it's a relatively easy process once I'm back online to go through that Notes file, and for each typo to report, copy the correction text, click on the link to jump to the place in a resource where the typo was, right click to report it, paste in the correction text. But I also agree that having Report Typo available when we're offline, and just have it cache all the typo reports to send next time we're online would be a good improvement. Others have requested this as well.