Hi Steve, I have never found a grammar checker that it useful for one's native language, in my case English. On the other hand, my French is rather primitive and a good grammar makes me intelligible if not exactly eloquent.
I did try the MS one years ago and it was maddening. It seemed to want one to write at a grade 8 level and complained incessantly when I used a passive sentence. On 22 August 2017 at 17:38, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> 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. > > SteveT > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
