Hi,

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Franz Josef Konrad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has somebody used TextLint to analyze German Text?

I don't know of anyone.

> I haven't found any hint in this direction. If there is no adaption for
> German available, do you think it can be done easily?

A lot of rules are for English only (with hardcoded words such as
'however', 'and'...).


> I had a short look to the source code and saw that one of the key points of
> TextLint is to recognize the type of a word (noun, verb, etc.). This is done
> by building a dictionary of words that comes from the English Wiktionary.


I'm sure how large is the part of TextLint that relies on word typing.
I would say it's not a big one but I can be wrong.


> From a first and naive view I would guess this can be done also for German
> and the rules could be adopt to German styling rules.

Most rules should be rewritten and can not be adapted to German.

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