Hi all,
I personaly don't think that real time checking of grammar does help (it
may more disturb in fact)
But that's only my point of view
I haven't used a grammar checker myself yet either, but since the real
time checking (sometimes called background checking) of grammar is
availbale in other products as well I'm sure we will have that one also.
So the API needs also take care of that case.
Also, would it be possible to provide style information to the grammar
checker (so it gets XML instead of plain text)? Users might want to
set up rules that check, for example, that certain keywords are always
bold or that latin terms appear in italics. This might also be
necessary for checking things like the relative placement of footnote
markers and quotation marks.
No
it is not the job of a grammar checker
Actually I've heard of a recent German grammar checker that does exactly
this. It's probably only because they are largely application
independent by doing this but it also has the benefits that they can
more individualy display errors in a dialog of there own.
For example the can display all erros with double font height or bold.
And the can uses different colors and different styles for different
error types. And indepent of the platform/application they are running
on, the UI and error representation will always look the same.
If the same users uses that grammar checker with different applications
and/or operating systems this might be a plus.
There may still be other reasons for that decison though...
And of course there probably is a different internal layer that operates
only on the 'real' text but to the outside it is all represented as XML.
Thomas
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