Improve issue highlighting, remove redundant ampersand checks

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Chapka
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Re: Post-Processing Workbench

#1081 Post by Chapka » Tue Aug 12, 2025 1:49 am
I had a question/feature request related to pptext.

I'm running pptext from the workbench in a browser, and some/most of the checks highlight whatever it is the check has flagged--so scanno checks highlight the flagged term, character checks the character, mixed case checks the word with mixed case, etc.

But there are a few checks under "special situations" where there is no highlighting, including "ampersand character", "standalone 1", and the one that most often gets me, "punctuation error."

"Punctuation error" always gives me a lot of false positive results--one for every abbreviation followed by a period, like "viz.," and "Louis XIV.,"--but because there's no highlighting it takes longer to review the flagged lines than for most of the other checks. It's not a huge deal but if it's not too hard a fix I'd love to see a highlight added to this particular check.

As a side note: right now pptext runs the same check for ampersand characters twice, once under "character checks" and once under "special situation checks". I think both of these are controlled by the "run text checks" option, so there's no way someone could be running one and not the other. Would it make sense to suppress one or the other to avoid duplication?

[chapkachapka]

To see the issues above, run pptext from the Workbench on this text.

The ampersand character will be flagged twice: once under “character
checks” & once under “special situations checks.”

The sentence “pptext is useful for preparing eBooks, etc.,” will raise
two errors under “special situations checks.” The error “mixed case
within word” has the target word highlighted. The “punctuation error”
does not.

To be clear: I am not complaining that the punctuation error is flagged,
even though it is correct; only asking that if possible it would be
useful to have it highlighted in the same way as the spelling, edit
distance, and other checks are.