Re: Help improve rule pt_PT

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
6 um 14:05 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Thanks, Jan, I use "1" and "3" but TESTRULES PT gives an error in: > Com o verbo haver não é necessário usar "atrás": \1 > \2 \3. > > Can you help? > > Thanks! > > On 17/08/2016 12:36, Jan Schreiber wrote:

Re: English native speaker help

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi list, What Athena says is exactly what I learned in school, and they were supposed to teach us British English there. So it's probably safe to add this as a rule for both variants. See also: http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/grammar-present-perfect-have-you-ever-been-to/ Best, Jan Am

Re: Help improve rule pt_PT

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marco, I think you could replace from your original version with the following: (Replace 0 with 1 if necessary.) Best, Jan Am 17.08.2016 um 13:25 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Yakov, > > It didn't work. > > I tried it in the stand-alone tool after using *TESTRULES PT*, with the > sentences: >

Re: I want become a maintainer in PT-BR

2016-06-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Matheus, Just in case you are struggling with git (as I do), here is a helpful basic guide: http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ My advice, for what it's worth: As a first step, take a look at the grammar.xml file for European Portuguese or any other language that you happen to be familiar

Re: Link to LT Wiki

2016-03-30 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 30.03.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Mike Unwalla: > Development page: "wiki.languagetool.org contains the complete development > documentation, including:" If the only purpose of wiki.languagetool.org is > for development information, then change the name from 'wiki.' to > 'development.' Reason:

Re: new committer: Mike Unwalla

2016-03-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
Welcome on board, Mike! Am 23.03.2016 um 17:23 schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I'd like to welcome Mike Unwalla as a new committer and maintainer for > English in LT. Mike has been around on this mailing list for a long time > and he's very experienced with writing rules for technical English. >

Re: MS Word add-in for LT

2016-01-29 Thread Jan Schreiber
> There's > also a "Tipography" check box (it should rather by Typography, btw) > whose meaning is unclear to me. Is it punctuation or spelling? In German, I use the Typography category for rules that aren't exactly punctuation errors, but are more or or less of an aesthetic nature. For

Re: Bug in German rule

2016-01-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thanks for the report! That bug is my fault. When I wrote the rule, I tacitly assumed that SENT_END would always be a punctuation mark, I wasn't aware that it can ever be a word. If we revert Daniel's last change and use (something like) the following to match a period or an exclamation mark at

Re: new syntax available

2015-10-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
That's great news, Daniel! A very powerful new feature. Am 05.10.2015 14:59, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > there's now a first and limited implementation of the syntax in > master. Instead of > > foo > > you can now use > > foo >

Re: Integration of LanguageTool with VisualEditor

2015-07-28 Thread Jan Schreiber
Sorry, it's Internal error. I get it every time I visit http://tools.wmflabs.org/languageproofing/ Same here. Am 28.07.2015 16:05, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2015-07-28 15:10, Ankita Kumari wrote: Hi, how did you get Internal server error? That would still be progress because so far I

Re: thanking contributors

2015-07-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Daniel, The title element of the page reads titleLanguageTool Contact/title I guess 'Contact' should be replaced with 'Team'. Best, Jan Am 03.07.2015 17:18, schrieb Daniel Naber: Hi, I've added a new page https://languagetool.org/team/ that lists all the people who have ever

Re: confusion probability rule now online

2015-05-29 Thread Jan Schreiber
Another word pair came to my mind for which this method might work: prove - proof Best, Jan Am 27.05.2015 20:12, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2015-05-27 19:45, Jan Schreiber wrote: this is really awesome! Is it possible to extend this to abbreviations with an apostrophe? Not yet, but it's

Browser preview of grammar.xml broken

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I am currently studying the German grammar file in order to get myself up to speed again, so I can start making some contributions in the near future. I noticed that the browser view doesn't show the examples anymore, apparently because the type attribute was removed. Could somebody fix the

Re: Help with unmunch and Icelandic + Galician

2014-10-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
You have to use V3.0 build 64. From the menu Dictionary Tools, choose Extract wordlist. It worked for me. Am 27.10.2014 16:38, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2014-10-27 13:48, Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: To unmunch .DIC + .AFF use my tool, Proofing Tool GUI:

Re: Checkout Failed

2014-10-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, The only advice I have to give here is to keep your patience. I have had this problem and it usually went away when I kept trying. It can be very annoying though. --Jan Am 23.10.2014 16:25, schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: Hello! After long minutes downloading files with a checkout in Tortoise, I

Re: British English: -IZE/-ISE

2014-10-18 Thread Jan Schreiber
For German there is WordCoherencyRule that uses a semicolon-separated list called coherency.txt. This can probably easily be ported to English. The solution is not ideal, however, since it detects incoherent use of individual words, such as 'monetize'/'monetise', but it doesn't insist that users

Re: languagetool.org improvement

2014-10-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
I tested it with MSIE and it works fine! Am 17.10.2014 10:04, schrieb Daniel Naber: Hi, I've modified languagetool.org so that it not only selects your language by default, but now also the country variant. ... --

Re: Yours missing POS tag?

2014-10-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
There is a file called manually_added.txt in the English resources folder. Would it make sense to add it there, or is this just a kind of record? Am 17.10.2014 17:06, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2014-10-17 16:33, Jonathon Churchill wrote: Hi, when writing a rule I noticed that the word yours

Re: svn issue (solved)

2014-10-16 Thread Jan Schreiber
Yeah, this type of issue seems quite common with svn. Most issues I have had so far went away after a few hours, and the others were usually resolved by checking out to a new folder. Am 16.10.2014 16:42, schrieb R.J. Baars: Somehow, the issue disappeared spontaneously. Ruud Somehow I

Re: users suggesting words for the spell checker

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
I love the idea! A user-friendly, hassle-free way to submit false positives in Hunspell was indeed quite desirable. Am 13.10.2014 09:42, schrieb Daniel Naber: Hi, I've activated a new feature on languagetool.org for German that lets users suggest a word for the spell checker. There's a new

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
to have it, ideally in the gaia format so I don't have to hassle with converting it. But a tab-separated list or something like that would also be great. --Jan Am 12.10.2014 18:18, schrieb Jan Schreiber: I figured out how to dump the dictionary. All I had to do was create a hunspell subfolder

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
, pass an additional -x, although if the underlying data doesn't make sense, exceptions may occur (no runtime checks are done to verify sanity for performance reasons). Dawid On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Jan Schreiber jan.schrei...@languagetool.org wrote: In case anyone's interested

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-12 Thread Jan Schreiber
Daniel Naber wrote: Can you reproduce that when using Morfologik directly? java -jar morfologik-tools-1.9.0-standalone.jar fsa_build --help will give usage instructions (same for 'fsa_dump). I haven't got morfologik-tools-1.9.0-standalone.jar anywhere on my hard disk. The closest match I

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I tried creating an fsa dictionary with frequency information from my German word list[1] as detailed on the Wiki[2]. The creation process worked alright apparently, but when I tried to dump the binary dictionary to a list with the command java -cp languagetool.jar

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I wonder if we could use the switch to Morfologik as an opportunity to rethink our general approach to dictionaries. Currently we use two dictionaries for all the fully supported languages afaik, and those contribute considerably to the large download size of LanguageTool. Why not use just

Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marcin wrote: This is perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or Charles Dickens using such constructions. I think this little discussion reveals a fundamental problem of an Open Source grammar checker, and perhaps of grammar checkers in general. In the back of my head, I've

Translations

2014-05-14 Thread Jan Schreiber
Here is a question (or several questions) from our Facebook page that I cannot answer: Sébastien Kerguen: I recently finished the French translation of LanguageTool (link: https://www.transifex.com/pro.../p/languagetool/language/fr/). When will it be integrated to LanguageTool (talking

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
I can view it with Chrome here. Am 11.05.2014 13:09, schrieb Daniel Naber: Does this work for anybody with Chrome? I only now noticed that it doesn't play with Chrome on my system (but it does with Firefox). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Great! Could somebody who can use the LanguageTool voice on Facebook post a link there? My Internet connection is painfully slow atm so I am virtually unable to use Facebook or YouTube. Am 10.05.2014 20:09, schrieb Daniel Naber: the video is now online at YouTube and linked at

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-08 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thanks, Ruud. Daniel, did you like the result? Am 07.05.2014 22:25, schrieb R.J. Baars: It is in dropbox, shared with daniel now. Might take some time to shrink. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I uploaded a version to https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2khHHcwKI_hNHExbGtuQThVVGc Somewhere near the end, video and audio are quite badly out of synch, that's why I am not exactly happy with the result, but I guess this is just about as good as it gets. Also, the result is encoded in WMV

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
in better resolution, we're pretty much done I hope. --Jan Am 07.05.2014 20:36, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2014-05-07 20:03, Jan Schreiber wrote: Somewhere near the end, video and audio are quite badly out of synch, that's why I am not exactly happy with the result, but I guess this is just about

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
I think I will have a go at that later today, even though I would prefer a native speaker for this kind of thing. --Jan Daniel Naber daniel.na...@languagetool.org schrieb: Hi, I've created a screencast for the rule editor, that is, I've written a script and I've made a screencast video. But I

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
. --Jan Am 06.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Jan Schreiber: I think I will have a go at that later today, even though I would prefer a native speaker for this kind of thing. --Jan Daniel Naber daniel.na...@languagetool.org schrieb: Hi, I've created a screencast for the rule editor, that is, I've

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Do you still have the source video around somewhere? If yes, can you upload it somewhere so I can grab it? TBH, my video editing abilities suck, but I'll do what I can. --Jan Am 06.05.2014 22:36, schrieb Daniel Naber: On 2014-05-06 17:23, Jan Schreiber wrote: I uploaded what I have so far

AW: POS tag help in the new rule editor

2014-05-01 Thread Jan Schreiber
Looks great. Now let's cross fingers and hope that this will bring us a few more contributers. Daniel Naber daniel.na...@languagetool.org schrieb: Hi, the new rule editor (http://community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2/) now shows a POS tag help automatically when you enter a field that

Hunspell false positives [de]

2014-04-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dear list, I have a huge list[1] of 70,000 (potential) false positives in the latest de_DE_frami dictionary for Hunspell. Among other things, it is based on the first 10,000 (or so) entries of a machine-generated list Ruud Baars sent me a few months ago. I think this is a valuable resource, but

AW: 2.3.1 SVN folder?

2013-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
The current version is always in Trunk. The tags are more like an archive of versions. Marco A.G.Pinto marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt schrieb: Hello! I haven't been paying much attention to all that is going on. Just a quick question: Shall my grammar.xml and compounds.txt be added inside:

AW: Show tags

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Syntax highlighting for tags in the GUI would be great. For those working with Notepad++, if somebody could come up with a user-defined highlighter scheme for it and share that, that would also be great. Kumara Bhikkhu kumara.bhik...@gmail.com schrieb: S I[I/PRP,B-NP-singular|E-NP-singular]

AW: Spell checkers

2013-10-09 Thread Jan Schreiber
I am very interested if data for German is available! --Jan R.J. Baars r.j.ba...@xs4all.nl schrieb: Are there any people out there interested in new probable words for their spell checkers and/or postagging files? The data that I can create are: - language - word - # of times found within

Re: He tried not to laughs.

2013-10-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thank you for the heads-up, I am certainly one of the culprits here. I hope I manage to get rid of this old habit. --Jan Am 04.10.2013 16:22, schrieb gulp21: Anyway, mails you from always end up as below: all joined up. Marcin MiÅ‚kowski wrote thus at 04:04 PM 04-10-13: I’d guess that it

Modules for individual supported languages?

2013-10-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Somebody by the name of Łukasz Janik posted this to our Facebook wall: prosze kazdy jezyk jako osobno I don't speak a single word of Polish, but according to Google Translator, this is a feature request to release single-language versions of LT. (Google and I might be wrong here of

AW: About LT in Russian

2013-10-02 Thread Jan Schreiber
Very nice. Too bad I can't read Russian. :-/ Yakov Reztsov yakovr...@mail.ru schrieb: Hi! I wrote a little article about the Russian module of LanguageTool in Russian . http://www.altlinux.ru/fileadmin/news/10-conference-Kaluga-2013.pdf page 79-82 -- Yakov Reztsov

AW: Re: AW: Re: xml editor

2013-10-02 Thread Jan Schreiber
On-the-fly checking doesn't work me either, but the normal check does. Kumara Bhikkhu kumara.bhik...@gmail.com schrieb: Hey, thanks for the tip. I've tried XML Tools for Notepad++. The auto-check seems to be buggy. It complains where there's no fault. Jan Schreiber wrote thus at 10:44 PM 30

AW: Re: xml editor

2013-09-30 Thread Jan Schreiber
My personal recommendation is PSPad with xmllint, a command-line validator for XML. Also, if you prefer Notepad++, there is an XML plugin for that too. Use the plugin manager to install it. Running testrules.bat will also validate the XML against the DTD, which is quite helpful. --Jan Kumara

Re: Hunspell expansion to words list

2013-05-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
The problem with the compounds in Hunspell that Ruud described exists for German as well. Just saying. Am 03.05.2013 13:07, schrieb Ruud Baars: Hi. Finally I have a full keyborad, to elaborate a bit on the expansion issue. Spell checking is supposed signal any incorrect word. So most

Re: Javascript-based online check - testing needed

2013-01-08 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 06.01.2013 23:38, schrieb Daniel Naber: Could someone test with MSIE? I did, seems to work so far. On my netbook, the font size in IE is VERY small however. I had to increase it manually to make the text readable. On a larger screen this is probably not a problem. Also, the wavy underlines

Re: [Languagetool] public relations tasks

2013-01-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi everybody, I wonder if we should link to our Facebook profile http://www.facebook.com/LanguageTool directly from the landing page http://www.languagetool.org. Below the Twitter icon on the left would probably be a good place for that. As a sort of status report, there is almost no user

New editors page on languagetool.wikidot.com

2012-12-31 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dear list, I've had a first go at a page[1] on the Wiki that will hopefully evolve into a list of recommended editors over time. Feel free to add your favorite editor(s) there. --Jan [1] http://languagetool.wikidot.com/xml-editors

Re: [Languagetool] Performance

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
OK, thanks for clearing this up. I've been concerned about performance issues ever since I started adding large disjunctions (in regular expressions) to the rules. I have virtually no background in computer science, so I am often not aware of the computational costs that the things I do in the

Re: [Languagetool] Performance

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Ruud Baars wrote: Suppose there is a slow/expensive rule, that almost never matches to warn about some low-priority issue; maybe it is worth switching it off then. That looks like a good idea to me. We could turn off some rules by default that are very unlikely to return an important true

Re: [Languagetool] Firefox extension

2012-11-14 Thread Jan Schreiber
We now have an SSL certificate (i.e. we support https) and I did some load testing today which went okay. Assuming the extension will not get hundreds of thousands of users in a short time, everything should be fine with the server we have today. Good news. Thanks for testing, Daniel! --Jan

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-10-05 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 05.10.2012 20:37, schrieb gulp21: I know it's still on the download buttons on our homepage, but I will fix that tomorrow or so unless someone beats me to it. In my opinion, the blue squiggle does not look that nice on the yellow background. Here[1] you can see how it looks like with a

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-09-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
I like the new icon. It is similar to the old one and pretty straightforward and simple, but still a vast improvement. Am 23.09.2012 12:34, schrieb Daniel Naber: I have already set a new favicon on http://www.languagetool.org.

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-09-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hard to decide. I like all of those. Am 18.09.2012 23:06, schrieb Daniel Naber: As nobody is really happy yet with the new logo, let's take a step back and look at others logos. What I posted was only a subset of what I got from our designer.

Re: [Languagetool] logo design

2012-08-24 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 24.08.2012 18:17, schrieb Daniel Naber: I found a professional logo designer who's going to work on a LanguageTool logo next week. If you have any ideas how the logo should look like / what it should contain, please let me know and I'll forward it to the designer. What came to my mind first

Re: [Languagetool] Using Subversion + Ant at checkout

2012-07-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 21.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Ruud Baars: On Windows you could try TurtoiseSVN .. I strongly second that. Get it from http://tortoisesvn.net It is basically an extension for the Windows Explorer that makes interaction with the SVN repository much easier and more intuitive, because most commands

Re: [Languagetool] including morfologik-tools?

2012-07-05 Thread Jan Schreiber
I agree that this would be useful. Am 04.07.2012 21:12, schrieb Daniel Naber: Shouldn't we just include it in LT SVN (not in the *.zip) - this would make life easier for everyone I think. -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [Languagetool] Wordlists for spellers?

2012-06-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
I'm fine with that, if it works fast enough. Hunspell is no doubt the best free spell checker around for German. Am 22.06.2012 22:31, schrieb Daniel Naber: For now, I prefer the HunspellNoSuggest solution for German.

Re: [Languagetool] Wordlists for spellers?

2012-06-22 Thread Jan Schreiber
, and aspell is probably not so good... I will upload a dictionary based on your dictionary for everybody to see. It works quite fast here. Marcin W dniu 2012-06-22 17:18, Jan Schreiber pisze: We could try my wordlist (1.3 million word forms) for German if that speeds up the process: http

Re: [Languagetool] Spaces in file path

2012-06-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
I confirm this as fixed now. Am 07.06.2012 11:20, schrieb Marcin Miłkowski: W dniu 2012-06-07 09:18, Jan Schreiber pisze: Using yesterday's developer build of LanguageTool, I get the following error message: java.io.FileNotFoundException: The dictionary files [...] could

Re: [Languagetool] online rule creator

2012-06-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Excellent. 5000 articles is enough for the time being. Hopefully this will encourage some contributors from outside. Am 03.06.2012 01:15, schrieb Daniel Naber: On Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012, Daniel Naber wrote: New feature: each rule is now automatically checked against a subset of Wikipedia

Re: [Languagetool] LibreOffice 3.5.4 released

2012-05-31 Thread Jan Schreiber
LanguageTool works for me as LibO 3.5.3 extension under Win XP SP3. After experiencing problems at first, I went through the following (admittedly VERY cumbersome) steps, and finally it worked: - Uninstall LibO - Uninstall any existing versions of Java (I happened to have several) - Delete any

Re: [Languagetool] online rule creator

2012-05-28 Thread Jan Schreiber
A very good idea. However, I find it a bit unclear where exactly the suggestion is taken from: From the corrected sentence, or from the user's error message. Error Message with correction in single quotation marks would probably make it a bit clearer, although it is not exactly elegant. Am

Re: [Languagetool] How to use the url feature with LanguageTool from command line?

2012-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
However, when I use LanguageTool in the command line, I don't see anything about the URL information: For all I know, the URL is displayed in LibreOffice only. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Languagetool] Configuration redesign

2012-05-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
By the way, just because collapsible checkboxes are hard to implement in Swing, maybe we should have just a list of categories in the first dialog, and open another dialog with a list of rules in the category chosen? I agree with Daniel that that sounds suspiciously like too many clicks, but

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
sure things are displayed as intended, to get an overview etc. Can this be solved via JavaScript/css ... somehow? Daniel Naber schrieb: On Freitag, 18. Mai 2012, Jan Schreiber wrote: Am I right that this method won't work out of the box, but requires changes to the Java code? Yes. I have

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
I just found this: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/14/trxml10.html It looks as if it uses an XML-internal method. I'll try it and report back how it works. I wrote: Not a bug, but a (major) annoyance for me: When grammar.xml is displayed in a browser, the new external resources aren't

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
I got fairly close using !ENTITY sonstiges SYSTEM ./sonstiges.xml It displays as expected in IE, but not in Firefox, and it doesn't pass testrules.bat. Daniel Naber schrieb: On Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, Jan Schreiber wrote: Not a bug, but a (major) annoyance for me: When grammar.xml

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-18 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am I right that this method won't work out of the box, but requires changes to the Java code? I tried it but the external files failed to load. The only worry I have is that changes to the categories (like splitting a category etc.) will be more complicated. Daniel Naber wrote: grammar.xml

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
If I understand this properly, it is exactly what I have been looking for. It would enable us to farm out those huge and cumbersome regExes to another file until we have a method in place that allows us to get along without them entirely. Daniel Naber schrieb: Here's how the file could be split

Re: [Languagetool] Any advice?

2012-05-16 Thread Jan Schreiber
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel -- Jan Schreiber, M.A. Universität

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-16 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marcin: Classifying some of the words semantically might be really useful for some rules. Indeed, I could not agree more. The most difficult part would be coming up with the semantic categories in a way that is not completely ad hoc. Everyone who has ever used a public library is probably

Re: [Languagetool] Suggesting the infinitive of a verb in a rule

2012-05-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thanks for the response. Is the method supposed to work for German? I tried to do it as you described, but no use. --Jan Marcin Miłkowski schrieb: W dniu 2012-05-11 09:41, Jan Schreiber pisze: Dear all, I'm currently struggling with a replacement rule. In the following example: example

Re: [Languagetool] Suggesting the infinitive of a verb in a rule

2012-05-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
@ all: Thanks for the replies. @ Daniel, Markus: Now what? So far only one out of some 1,200 German rules needs this feature. Is it worth the effort? OTOH it doesn't look like much work. gulp21 schrieb: Thanks for the response. Is the method supposed to work for German? I tried to do it as you

Re: [Languagetool] getting rid of mark_from and mark_to

2012-05-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Looks like an excellent idea, getting this mark_(.+) wrong is one of my favorite errors. Daniel Naber wrote: I have a local patch here that allow settings markers without the mark_from and mark_to attributes. I find those difficult to understand and it's easy to get them wrong. With this

Re: [Languagetool] Improve the web demo of LanguageTool?

2012-01-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
btw, is there a reason why padding-left and padding-right are set to 3px for the class errorMarker. imho the extra space between the words looks a bit strange. I agree that the extra space is a bit large. Maybe we should change it to 1 px and see how that looks?

Re: [Languagetool] Improve the web demo of LanguageTool?

2012-01-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
Would anyone mind if I upload a new version of the file squiggle.png (used for the squiggly underlines in the demo) with its color changed to blue rather than red? In my opinion the red color doesn't fit well into the yellow, orange and brown overall design of the website, and blue or green are

Re: [Languagetool] Possible way of speeding up LanguageTool

2012-01-14 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dominique Pellé wrote: The slowest startup times are for Chinese, German and Ukrainian. It would be interesting to find why. That's true. Some of my rules in the German file do checks against huge regular expressions, which is probably quite inelegant. This might be a reason.