On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Jorge Ressia <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Mariano,
>
> We are very happy that you found TextLint that useful. As you might
> have noticed we fixed several of your reported issues and we are still
> working on the remaining ones.
>

yes, thanks a lot :)


>
> 1.- Not difficult. Could you specify how this rule would work? how
> many sentences should we take into account? Perhaps a whole paragraph.
> You might find the rule TLWordRepetitionInParagraphRule, which is
> already in TextLint useful, it detects the repetition of words in a
> paragraphs. If the Word is used more than 3 times then the rule fails.
> This will include the connectors that you mentioned. If you required a
> repetition rule a little more strict you can always use this rule as a
> basis for defining your new rule. We will be more that happy to
> integrate it :)
>

Maybe the rule can be very similar to the one you say. My scenario is the
following: several times I need connectors or things like:
"However, In contrast to, In adddition, Furthermore, On the other hand,
Still, Furthermore, Nevertheless, etc....".
And then I need one of them, I usually have to check near that place where I
need it, if I have already use one of them. I check in the same paragraph or
just near.

So a rule can be something like TLWordRepetitionInParagraphRule but:

- I wouldn't like to repeated even twice (not 3!!). I just want them only
once in the near text

- I wouldn't do it for ALL words, only for those kind of words

- I would check in the same paragraph or maybe 10 (15, or 20) lines before
and after the place.



>
> 2.- The objective behind "Do not join sentences with commas " is
> simplicity. If you have a sentence with a single comma you might be
> expressing two different things and divide them in two sentences might
> be good. On the other hand, if you still want to keep your sentence
> together this rule might signal that it might be a way of avoiding the
> use of the coma and using some meaningful connector.
> In any case, I agree that this rule is spotted several times in the
> most text and TextLint users might feel reluctant to look into it.
> We have planned to look into it.
> But in many cases it has been quite useful for me.
>
>
Thanks for the explanantion Jorge.

Mariano


> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ok....I am using TextLint for all my papers now :)
> >
> > Few more things:
> >
> > 1) It would be awesome a rule that detects duplication of connectors in a
> > near area. For example, if I use connectors like "However, Nevertheless,
> > Hence, On the contrary, One the other hand, etc..."  it would be nice a
> rule
> > that detects that you already use the same connector some lines
> before/after
> > a specific one...
> >
> > 2) I don't understand the rule: "Do not join sentences with commas ".  Is
> > this working well ?   I have these phrases for example:
> >
> >
> > - To support automatic memory management, most object oriented systems
> are
> > based on garbage collectors (GC) \cite{Jone96a}.
> >
> > - In class-based object-oriented languages, information about class usage
> is
> > needed.
> >
> > - For this we use Distribution Map, a visualization showing spread and
> focus
> > of properties across systems.
> >
> > I think the "comma" there are correct. Maybe I am wrong.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > mariano
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Jorge Ressia <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> So
> >>
> >> I have just sent you by private email the .tex.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 1) Could not reproduce
> >>>
> >>
> >> Should be reproducable with my .tex
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 2)
> >>>     2.a) Working on that
> >>>     2.b) Could not reproduce
> >>>
> >>
> >> me neither. Did you check if you are using a Set for the collection?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 3) It is hard to achieve, we still have it in the todo list.
> >>
> >> Yes, I imagined ;)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 4) Could not reproduce
> >>>
> >>
> >> Should be reproducable with my .tex
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 5) Fixed
> >>>
> >>> 6) Checking
> >>>
> >>
> >> excellent :)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> It would be cool if we could have a look at your file so we can have a
> >>> better way of debugging these issues.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Done :)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Jorge Ressia <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Mariano,
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks for trying TextLint out and for the feedback.
> >>> >
> >>> > We will look into your issues and try to figure out a solution.
> >>> >
> >>> > If you have a draft of your text with these occurrences please send
> it
> >>> > to us. You can remove the text that is not relevant.
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> >
> >>> > Jorge
> >>> >
> >>> > 2010/9/2 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>:
> >>> >> Hi. First, please let me know if this is the correct place to talk
> >>> >> about
> >>> >> TextLint. I've just used for one paper I am writing and I have some
> >>> >> questions/feedback. I am using the one click image.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 1) The "An Rule" could be a little more smart and detects commands.
> >>> >> For
> >>> >> example, in my latex I have " an \emph{inner object}"  and that was
> >>> >> detected
> >>> >> by the rule, althought I shouldn't. So...detecting the slash and
> >>> >> ignore what
> >>> >> it surrounded by {} would be nice for this rule.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 2) When I edit the code inside TextLint and I save it, two bad
> things
> >>> >> happens:
> >>> >>      2.a)  I lost focus of the text, as it moves when it finishing
> >>> >> saving.
> >>> >> The line I edited goes to the end of the text area. It would be
> great
> >>> >> if
> >>> >> nothing moves nor to loose focus when saving.
> >>> >>      2.b) sometimes (I cannot reproduce) the order of the rules
> >>> >> changes...and this is not good because I was going in order, one by
> >>> >> one, and
> >>> >> suddenly they are re-ordered. Maybe you are using a Set for that?
> >>> >> using a
> >>> >> simple OrderedCollection could help.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 3) If you edit the text (and it differs in the amount of
> characters),
> >>> >> and DO
> >>> >> NOT save it, the following color highlighting are moved. It seems
> you
> >>> >> keep
> >>> >> the position in the file, and until it is saved, rules results are
> >>> >> pointing
> >>> >> to "unupdated" file. Of course, when I save the file, they are
> >>> >> correct. I
> >>> >> guess this is from a performance point of view, but maybe you have a
> >>> >> little
> >>> >> hack to do and make it better.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 4) The rule "no white space before punctuation mark" showed me
> things
> >>> >> I
> >>> >> didn't understand. For example, it says this line there is a ","
> >>> >> (comma) :
> >>> >>
> >>> >> \item[ Shared object ]   In the case of the \emph{shared objects},
> it
> >>> >> is
> >>> >> almost the same as in the \emph{inner objects}. An .....
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >> 5) Rules comments clearer. For example, when you say "Avoid using a
> >>> >> lot, it
> >>> >> weakens the sentence"  It would be better to put "Avoid using "a
> lot",
> >>> >> it
> >>> >> weakens the sentence"
> >>> >> or "Avoid using *a lot*, it weakens the sentence"
> >>> >> or something to clearly mark the words not to use. Because sometimes
> >>> >> the
> >>> >> words are confused with the context. Or this one:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> "After an only words beginning with a vowel are allowed. "
> >>> >> should be "After "an" only words beginning with a vowel are
> allowed."
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 6) For the rules of long sentences/paragraph it would be nice to
> >>> >> ignore
> >>> >> \fotenote{}
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 7) Maybe this link is of interest for you:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Apart from all these things, the tool is very useful and I like it.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> thanks
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Mariano
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
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> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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