Text selecting problem

[vet8t6z79pc4]

Since it seems you missed out on this, I make another post about the problem.

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The problem (#1.)

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Hello, after importing a few more advanced YT videos during my Italian learning I’ve stumbled on two recurring issues: When selecting across lines in the text, a space isn’t appended between text and it looks strange in google translate, in fact the built-in LingQ translate is never able to handle the translation so I always need to use google translate in this context. when I advance the text to the next page without clicking on every “new” word, they are all marked as known! This is super ba…

Detailed Explanation

YouTube imported lesson Quality-of-Life improvements

Hi everyone, regarding issue #1, I think OP was not talking about the handling of the subtitles per se, but rather about what happens when the user selects words across lines/paragraphs. While normally, LingQ is able to suggest translations for parts of phrases, in such cases, an error message is displayed instead, without any space across the lines. [image] [image]

Solution

YouTube imported lesson Quality-of-Life improvements

Tell the LingQ’s dev team to use this code to change the select event listener to get the characters like ,, ., ? properly with new line tags \n. They are probably using DOM.textContent to get the text. Original Text [image] Getted Text Budget airlines don't save you as much as you thinkIn fact, many of them are becoming an outright scamThese companies have admitted to secretly paying their gate agents a bribe to claim passengers' bags are too big, even when they're not, forcing people to pa…

[zoran]

Thanks! We’ll look into this.