Re: Search for duplicates
On 04/10/2018 05:32 AM, Miriam Robarts wrote: > It would be good to have a tool like this, so if I used the same adjective _Linguist_ can provide a frequency list of every word used in the document. It won't list synonyms next to each other. Linguist is no longer maintained, so it might not work with AOo 4.x. :( I thought that _Language Tool_ had an optional style checker, but in looking through the options in September 2017 version, it doesn't look like it. :( Maybe it was for another language. In theory, _Context Aware Synonym Suggester_ (CASS), will walk through a text, suggesting appropriate synonyms, catching "amazingly" and "amazing" as quasi-duplicates. I've tried it once it or twice, but don't remember the results. Those extensions are either in the Apache Open Office extension repository, or LibreOffice extension repository. Both Language Tool and CASS are developed on GitHub. jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Search for duplicates
Hello, I was just writing a book review & thinking of my pet peeve regarding repetition of words, when I realized that this could be a useful tool in word processing programs. I know you can use the find feature to look for similar words to the search term, but it would be great to have a tool that could identify duplicate words (and their related forms) without entering a search term (while excluding articles and pronouns, etc., of course--as well as a field to enter other words to be excluded from the search, e.g. names). This would be much more useful for finding similar words, since people usually aren't aware of when they repeat them. It would be good to have a tool like this, so if I used the same adjective more than once, or if I used two forms of the same word (e.g. amazing, and amazingly), I could consider changing one to a synonym. It'd probably be most useful for the result to be a list of words that you could click on to highlight and find in the document, so you could deal with one set at a time if there were duplicates of several words. It would also be nice if you could choose to ignore words that come up in the result and remove them from the list. Thank you for your consideration! -Miriam