Re: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-17 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:02:02AM -0600, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > We do have a grammar checker. Worked well for me on Ubuntu last time I > > tried it: > > https://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker > > It uses > >

Re: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-17 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > We do have a grammar checker. Worked well for me on Ubuntu last time I > tried it: > https://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker > It uses > https://www.languagetool.org/ > > It would be great to see some improvements

Re: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-17 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 07:35:50PM -0600, Joel Kulesza wrote: > 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

Re: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-16 Thread Joel Kulesza
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

Re: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-16 Thread Richard Heck
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: Finding common mistakes

2016-05-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

2016-05-16 Thread Joel Kulesza
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

2016-05-16 Thread Paul A . Rubin
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

Finding common mistakes

2016-05-16 Thread Bob Alvarez
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