R.J. Baars <r.j.ba...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > There is an official advice for Dutch, stating that for understandable > reading, an average of no more than 12 words a sentence is required. > > Since I can only make rule per sentence, I made a rule, warning for > sentences of more than 18 words. That rule hits in about 45% of all > sentences! > > I made another one, triggering from 30 up. That one still triggers in 11% > of all sentences. > > Then there is one alerts from 50 upwards. That one is seen in about 1.5% > of all sentences. > > So I am sure us Dutch make too long sentences overall. A rule triggering > at that much sentences is a nuisance. Should I set the first 2 to be off > by default? And have the one with 50 set to 'on'? Or should I try to stick > to 'enforcing' the understandability of text? > > You probably dealt with issues like this, so I would like to hear your > opinions. > > Ruud
Hi Ruud Please don't turn such rules on by default. In my opinion, warning on 45% of the sentences (or even 11%) will cause more harm than good. Users will stop using LT if they see that it warns for so many sentences, without even bothering changing settings, especially users trying LT for the first time. It's better focus on errors that are definitely mistakes. I don't think that it's worth having such rules when they are "off" by default either. Regards Dominique ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce. Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
