Finding common mistakes

Is there any software tool that finds common mistakes in writing beyond spelling errors? I mean things like repeated words, homonym substitutions such as their/there, lose/loose, which/that confusion, etc? I also paste my text into Microsoft Word and use their grammar checker. It spots some

Re: Help with creation of module

On 16.05.2016 22:22, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016 08:29, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016 06:21, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/13/2016 03:38 PM, racoon wrote: Hi! The LyX

Re: How to use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright(

On 05/16/2016 08:49 AM, racoon wrote: > Hi, > > How do I use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright( in LyX? (The > latter need the mleftright package.) Just type them, exactly like that. In the former case, LyX has support, so you'll just see big parens. In the latter case, there is no

Re: Help with creation of module

On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: > On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: >>> On 14.05.2016 08:29, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016 06:21, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/13/2016 03:38 PM, racoon wrote: >> Hi! >> >> The LyX manual on

Re: Help with creation of module

On 16.05.2016 22:52, racoon wrote: On 16.05.2016 22:22, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016 08:29, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016 06:21, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/13/2016 03:38

Re: How to use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright(

On 16.05.2016 22:32, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/16/2016 08:49 AM, racoon wrote: > Hi, > > How do I use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright( in LyX? (The > latter need the mleftright package.) Just type them, exactly like that. In the former case, LyX has support, so you'll just see big

Re: Finding common mistakes

Paul, Thanks for posting that. I was thinking just the other day that something that applies basic grammar rules within LyX would be a valuable addition. In the meantime, I'll check out proselint (perhaps more accurately, its plugin for VIM). Thanks, Joel On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Paul

Re: Finding common mistakes

Joel, If you decide proselint is useful, it would be worth mentioning in the user list. Maybe someone could hack a converter script to facilitate running it against a LyX document. Paul -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: Finding common mistakes

On 05/16/2016 09:00 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Joel, > > If you decide proselint is useful, it would be worth mentioning in the > user list. Maybe someone could hack a converter script to facilitate > running it against a LyX document. It looks to be text only, so you could export a LyX file to

Re: Help with creation of module

On 05/16/2016 05:18 PM, racoon wrote: > On 16.05.2016 22:52, racoon wrote: >> On 16.05.2016 22:22, Richard Heck wrote: >>> On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: >> On 14.05.2016 08:29, racoon wrote:

Re: Finding common mistakes

Bob Alvarez hotmail.com> writes: > Is there any software tool that finds common mistakes in writing beyond spelling errors? I mean things like repeated words, homonym substitutions such as their/there, lose/loose, which/that confusion, etc? I have not tried it myself, but perhaps proselint

Re: Help with creation of module

On 05/16/2016 04:52 PM, racoon wrote: > On 16.05.2016 22:22, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: >>> On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: > On 14.05.2016 08:29, racoon wrote: >> On 14.05.2016 06:21, Richard Heck wrote:

Re: How to use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright(

On 05/16/2016 04:47 PM, Daniel wrote: > On 16.05.2016 22:32, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 08:49 AM, racoon wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > How do I use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright( in LyX? (The >> > latter need the mleftright package.) >> >> Just type them, exactly like that. In

Re: How to use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright(

On 16.05.2016 23:38, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/16/2016 04:47 PM, Daniel wrote: > On 16.05.2016 22:32, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 08:49 AM, racoon wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> How do I use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright( in LyX? (The >>> latter need the mleftright package.) >> >>

Re: Help with creation of module

On 16.05.2016 23:42, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/16/2016 05:18 PM, racoon wrote: On 16.05.2016 22:52, racoon wrote: On 16.05.2016 22:22, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/15/2016 05:20 AM, racoon wrote: On 15.05.2016 03:41, Richard Heck wrote: On 05/14/2016 05:46 PM, racoon wrote: On 14.05.2016

Re: Help with creation of module

Le 16/05/2016 22:42, Richard Heck a écrit : On 05/16/2016 05:18 PM, racoon wrote: A couple more things that would be nice: - the footnotetext was added to the list of footnotes. This would definitely take some work. It's in the works (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7790). Guillaume

How to use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright(

Hi, How do I use \Bigl( and \Bigr(, and \mleft( and \mright( in LyX? (The latter need the mleftright package.) Best, Daniel

Re: Finding common mistakes

On the command line it appears to have two output formats: the standard one which gives some location information and a more complete JSON format that gives complete location and severity location (which could used to style markup in the LyX interface). Can someone