How best to handling spell checking? Is there a way to get spell check to work?

Neojonez

Hi All,

I'm new to Twine and am finding it to be an amazing tool. Creating an interactive story with Twine is a ton of fun.

Question...

What's the best way to handle spell checking? I'm typing directly into Twine, which is easier than writing in a separate doc and cutting and pasting. This method works great, but as I write fast and am not a great typist, I end up with a lot of spelling errors.

The usual in browser spelling check doesn't work. So, what's the best way to check spelling? Is there a way to turn on in-browser spell checking?

Thanks!

Aaron

greyelf

Unfortunately the CodeMirror text editor (which is used instead of a standard Text Field because it supports features like syntax highlighting) in the Passage Editor is not considered an editable control by web-browsers and this means that the web-browser's built-in spell checker does not work (without hacks). This is a known CodeMirror issue.

Claretta

I think it's generally good practice to write in a separate document first anyway, since that means you automatically have a backup of your work in a separate location.

rubereaglenest

But you can use "View copy for correction". There copy all your text, and paste it into a Google Docs or your preferred editor, and hunt for typos.

Alternatively, you can use Entweedle to export your game to Twee2 format.

http://www.maximumverbosity.net/twine/Entweedle/

Again, copy and paste all the generated script in your favourite editor and have fun spell checking!

greyelf

There are many ways to get access to the contents of a story's passages so that you can use a third-party spellchecker on it, the real issue is the effort required to get the corrections back into the original passages.

Neojonez

Got it. Thanks for the info!