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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