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 > <http://proselint.com/utility/> that gives complete location and severity > location (which could used to style markup in the LyX interface). > > Can someone comment on how LyX uses spellchecker diagnostics to perform > continuous markup? A similar approach could be useful with proselint (to > parse the JSON output and style the LyX squiggles, perhaps instead of red > using blue ala MS Word). Similarly, it would be instructive to know how > the spellchecker operates on-demand for running proselint on-demand. > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> 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 for it so that it works more seamlessly with LyX. By the way, please bottom-post as asked for by our list netiquette: https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc7 It really does make it easier for others to quote and follow conversations. Scott > > 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 plaintext > > and run it against that. But it's hard to know how it would deal with > > footnotes, etc. > > > > Richard > > > >
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