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. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry
