On 18 May 2005 at 10:10, Suki Venkat, [TnQ] wrote: > How is the grammar checker project going?
As far as I know there is no formal grammar checker project yet, just a few people playing with ideas. Robert Vojta posted a message on 10th May about his Czech typo rule checker, which uses OOo's built-in search and replace regexes. I posted a reply with a link to the code I've been working on (now updated -- www.philoxenic.com/software/graviax_0.02.zip). However, it's fairly basic, and I don't get to spend as much time on it as I would like. And I'm being rather foolhardy linking to a DOS executable on an open source mailing list :-) If there's anyone else out there doing similar work, it would be interesting to know. Since my last posting I've found this project: <http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/>. Nothing to do with OOo, but uses XML files (in Python) to check grammar rules in English, German and Hungarian. > I have got a team that works extensively on PERL, Java, C++, etc... may > be they can also help out. If anyone's interested in contributing to my project then please get in touch. It's probably a bit early to put it up on Sourceforge. > TnQ Books and Journals, Chennai > (the company is mostly into pre-press and typesetting) One of the advantages of XML/regex grammar rules is that it ought to be straightforward to use the same rule set to power plug-ins for different applications (for example, InDesign). Before I started this C++ project, I had a Javascript script for InDesign that did a similar type of checking. The difficulty will be choosing a regex format that is supported across a number of programming languages without sacrificing too much power for defining complex rules. Best regards Matthew -- Matthew Strawbridge http://www.philoxenic.com Bespoke software development and freelance technical copy editing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
