On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 05:38:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:38 +0200 > "Patrick Dupre" <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. > > I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing > > (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. > > Is there any way to install a more efficient grammar checker? > > To circumvent the problem, I used to generate a rtf file and then to > > use freeoffice which let me use a grammar checker like LT. > > However, the generation of the rtf file is really problematic for a > > scientific document (for example, I have to remove the section, > > subsection, etc..). > > > > Some suggestions? > > Last century I tried MSWord's grammar checker. I found it a great idea > impossible to implement. It would often let fly sentences with a wrong > word, and worse yet, it would flag lots of sentences that any author > would feel good about writing. > > I think that, once you get past absolutely horrible grammar, grammar > checking becomes nothing but frustration. > > I mentioned MSWord, which is obviously bad software, but I really think > it's impossible to implement a useful grammar checker with the current > state of AI. Wait another 10 years and perhaps grammar checkers will > learn how we authors talk, and base checking on that.
Patrick, take a look at the old ticket (but with recent discussion):
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4878
Please feel free to join the discussion. As for if there is a way for a
more effective grammar checker, you might like comment:9 on that ticket.
Note, however, that it is only for English.
Steve, I agree with you for the most part. Sometimes, though, the
grammar checker catches simple mistakes that my eyes do not. I can read
a sentence 10 times and somehow not catch a singular/plural mismatch. I
have found it helpful [1] to read my paper backwards [2] in order to
catch certain types of errors.
Scott
[1] Thanks to my high school teacher Mrs. Coulter for this suggestion!
[2] I originally had "backwords". Luckily I read this sentence backwards :)
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