VNProofer

VNProofer is a Command-line Ren'Py Visual Novel proofreading tool.

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
  • Via NPM
    • Global installation:
• Usage
  • Help Menu
  • Config
    • Config Command
    • Config Help
      • Sub Commands
        • Initial Config
        • Update character exclusions
  • Check
    • Check Command
  • All
    • All Command
    • All Help
  • Counts
    • Counts Command
    • Counts Help
  • Exclude
    • Exclude Command
    • Exclude Help
• Todo

Features

• Ability to generate a cSpell configuration file for the Ren'Py visual novel
  • Character names are automatically added to the local dictionary
• Ability to automatically add newly added characters to the local dictionary
• Ability to count both words added and dialogue words added today by examining git commit history
• Ability to add words misspelled on purpose to file level exclusion list

Requirements

• A copy of cspell must have been installed globally npm i cspell -g to do any spell checking
• VNProofer is designed to work with a codebase of *.rpy files in any directory structure from the root.
  • *.rpa files will need to be decompressed
  • *.rpyc files will need to be decompressed

Installation

Via NPM

It would be best to have Node.js and NPM already installed (or you are willing to do it).

Global installation:

npm i vnproofer cspell -g

Usage

Help Menu

Use either -h or --help at any level

vnproofer --help
vnproofer -h
vnproofer config --help
vnproofer check --help
vnproofer all -h

Config

Displays the configuration menu

Config Command

vnproofer config

Config Help

$ vnproofer config --help
vnproofer config

Configure vnproofer

Options:
  -v, --version         Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -s, --suppress-intro  Suppress intro of command               [boolean] [default: false]
  -h, --help            Show help                                                [boolean]

Sub Commands

Initial Config

Create an initial cspell.json file from a template (disabled if it already exists). VNProofer will automatically add any defined character names to the workspace dictionary list.

Update character exclusions

Add any new characters to the workspace dictionary list that were not previously added.

Check

Check an individual file for spelling errors

Check Command

vnproofer check ./myfile.rpy

or

vnproofer c ./myfile.rpy

All

Perform a complete spell check of all rpy files using cSpell

All Command

vnproofer all

or

vnproofer a

All Help

$ vnproofer all --help
vnproofer all

perform full spell check of all rpy files

Options:
  -v, --version         Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -s, --suppress-intro  Suppress intro of command               [boolean] [default: false]
  -h, --help            Show help                                                [boolean]

Counts

Query git to find out how many words and how many dialogue words have been committed since 1 am today

Counts Command

vnproofer counts

or

vnproofer n

Counts Help

$ vnproofer counts --help
vnproofer counts

Query git to find out how many words have been committed today

Options:
  -v, --version         Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -s, --suppress-intro  Suppress intro of command               [boolean] [default: false]
  -m, --only-me         Only show my own counts                 [boolean] [default: false]
  -b, --verbose         Show detailed logs of changes with word counts for examination
                                                                [boolean] [default: false]
  -h, --help            Show help                                                [boolean]

Exclude

Handle words that are spelled wrong on purpose. If there is already a word exclusion list at the top of the file, the command will add the lowercase version of the word to the existing list in alphabetical order. Otherwise, it will add a new exclusion to the top of the file.

Exclude Command

vnproofer exclude ./myfile.rpy yall

or

vnproofer e ./myfile.rpy yall

Exclude Help

$ vnproofer exclude --help
vnproofer exclude <file> <word>

Handle words that are spelled wrong on purpose

Positionals:
  file  File path that has the misspelled word                         [string] [required]
  word  Word to exclude from misspelled words within file              [string] [required]

Options:
  -v, --version         Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -s, --suppress-intro  Suppress intro of command               [boolean] [default: false]
  -h, --help            Show help                                                [boolean]

Todo

• Utility to show how many words added as well as how many dialog words have been added today by pulling all changes added to a git repo
• Ability to automatically add the cSpell GitHub action to an existing codebase
• Ability to add words misspelled on purpose to an exclusion list at the top of the file
• Ability to add file-level excluded words to the local dictionary if the exclusion is used in more than one file and remove the local exclusion from all files
• Ability to iterate over each misspelled word and choose how to handle it (add to file level exclusion, add to the local dictionary)
• Ability to iterate over all-new dialogue (like a new pull request to review)
• Ability to view all Ren'Py lint issues
• Ability to automatically add Ren'Py linting GitHub action to an existing codebase
• Ability to run a line of dialogue through a command-line grammatical tool like gramma
• Ability to install global cSpell installation through config menu if not already installed
• Ability to install global gramma installation through config menu if not already installed
• Ability to extract from *.rpa files
• Ability to extract from *.rpyc files
• Ability to automatically generate a corrections file to be sent to an author to facilitate automatically correcting issues
• Ability to automatically add recommended VSCode extensions for Ren'Py