Re: grammar check
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:16:37 + Bernt Lie via lyx-users wrote: > Not a perfect solution... > I copied text from LyX into Microsoft Edge co-pilot following [...] > -- I then copied the corrected text from MS Edge back into LyX. OK, that's similar to using LanguageTool/Andtidote or some other grammar checker via web... It would be nice to have something more integrated with LyX! Sincerely, Saša -- A person is considered still further advanced when he regards honest well-wishers, affectionate benefactors, the neutral, mediators, the envious, friends and enemies, the pious and the sinners all with an equal mind. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: grammar check
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:56:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Does LyX have a Markdown export? Is it any better than LyX' HTML > export? I'm told about this: https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ConvertMarkdown Sincerely, Saša -- The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: grammar check
Saša Janiška said on Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:24:03 +0200 >Hello, > >I've decided to do my note-taking (Zettelkasten) by just using pen & >paper and when I want to produce some context I'll just use LyX - >exporting to markdown when I want something for the web Does LyX have a Markdown export? Is it any better than LyX' HTML export? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
RE: grammar check
(The procedure worked, even though I see that I misspelled "grammar"...) -Original Message- From: lyx-users On Behalf Of Bernt Lie via lyx-users Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 12:17 PM To: Saša Janiška ; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: RE: grammar check Not a perfect solution... I copied text from LyX into Microsoft Edge co-pilot following (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/do-more-with-ai/how-to-check-your-grammar-using-bing-chat?form=MA13KP). I used command: "Can you check this text for spelling errors and grammer errors?", and passed in the text to check *after* a line break (Ctrl+Enter, I think), and then clicked on the start button. The results seems to be quite good, although it "fixed" a handful of errors that were not really errors, but rather words that co-pilot didn't know (some technical words from dna analysis). -- I then copied the corrected text from MS Edge back into LyX. The "downside" of this procedure is that some structure was lost in the copying back-and-forth process (a slash "/", some bullet symbols in lists, etc.). -B -Original Message- From: lyx-users On Behalf Of Saša Janiška Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:24 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: grammar check Hello, I've decided to do my note-taking (Zettelkasten) by just using pen & paper and when I want to produce some context I'll just use LyX - exporting to markdown when I want something for the web (using Tiki CMS) or LyX/LaTeX for writing articles (pdfs), slide-presentations, books… However, being non-native speaker/writer I do find useful to use some grammar checkers. To support LanguageTool I've subscribed to Premium version, but found out that despite being open-source etc. it has its limitations (see e.g. https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls/issues/215). Otoh, I've a licence for proprietary Antidote (https://www.druide.com/en) which can check text provided as e.g. markdown, LaTeX... Now I wonder if you have any suggestion how to review lyx-gc to either support newer versions of LanguageTool or to use Antidote's ability to grammar-check LaTeX markup considering that lyx-gc was using chktex to do the task. Any other suggestion how to add grammar-check feature to LyX? Sincerely, Saša -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
RE: grammar check
Not a perfect solution... I copied text from LyX into Microsoft Edge co-pilot following (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/do-more-with-ai/how-to-check-your-grammar-using-bing-chat?form=MA13KP). I used command: "Can you check this text for spelling errors and grammer errors?", and passed in the text to check *after* a line break (Ctrl+Enter, I think), and then clicked on the start button. The results seems to be quite good, although it "fixed" a handful of errors that were not really errors, but rather words that co-pilot didn't know (some technical words from dna analysis). -- I then copied the corrected text from MS Edge back into LyX. The "downside" of this procedure is that some structure was lost in the copying back-and-forth process (a slash "/", some bullet symbols in lists, etc.). -B -Original Message- From: lyx-users On Behalf Of Saša Janiška Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:24 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: grammar check Hello, I've decided to do my note-taking (Zettelkasten) by just using pen & paper and when I want to produce some context I'll just use LyX - exporting to markdown when I want something for the web (using Tiki CMS) or LyX/LaTeX for writing articles (pdfs), slide-presentations, books… However, being non-native speaker/writer I do find useful to use some grammar checkers. To support LanguageTool I've subscribed to Premium version, but found out that despite being open-source etc. it has its limitations (see e.g. https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls/issues/215). Otoh, I've a licence for proprietary Antidote (https://www.druide.com/en) which can check text provided as e.g. markdown, LaTeX... Now I wonder if you have any suggestion how to review lyx-gc to either support newer versions of LanguageTool or to use Antidote's ability to grammar-check LaTeX markup considering that lyx-gc was using chktex to do the task. Any other suggestion how to add grammar-check feature to LyX? Sincerely, Saša -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
grammar check
Hello, I've decided to do my note-taking (Zettelkasten) by just using pen & paper and when I want to produce some context I'll just use LyX - exporting to markdown when I want something for the web (using Tiki CMS) or LyX/LaTeX for writing articles (pdfs), slide-presentations, books… However, being non-native speaker/writer I do find useful to use some grammar checkers. To support LanguageTool I've subscribed to Premium version, but found out that despite being open-source etc. it has its limitations (see e.g. https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls/issues/215). Otoh, I've a licence for proprietary Antidote (https://www.druide.com/en) which can check text provided as e.g. markdown, LaTeX... Now I wonder if you have any suggestion how to review lyx-gc to either support newer versions of LanguageTool or to use Antidote's ability to grammar-check LaTeX markup considering that lyx-gc was using chktex to do the task. Any other suggestion how to add grammar-check feature to LyX? Sincerely, Saša -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Grammar Checking -- noob help!
On 12/6/22 12:57, Dan wrote: I'm writing what is essentially going to be a small text in Physics with a lot of high end Mathematics, so a good Science grammar checker would be a nice idea. I found the LyX wiki and the lyx-cg system. This was created by a user and sometime contributor. I'm not sure if he's still around; perhaps he'll chime in. But yes, it looks like that is somewhat out of date. I don't know how well it would work with the current file format. Your best option may be to export the file to some more common format, and use a grammar checker on that. E.g., you can export to LaTeX and then use pandoc to convert to Word or whatever. Or you can export to XHMTL, and then open that in Libre Office. Riki -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Grammar Checking -- noob help!
I'm writing what is essentially going to be a small text in Physics with a lot of high end Mathematics, so a good Science grammar checker would be a nice idea. I found the LyX wiki and the lyx-cg system. Are there other options? I'm also looking at Grammarly but I'm not sure it can handle the kind of language help I might need. Let's say I go with the lyx-cg idea. (Which is why I'm posting this here. :) ) I have a few questions. 1) Is lyx-cg up to date? I'm noticing that the Github files are as much as 8 years old. 2) If I have to buy something I'd prefer to buy it outright. langaugetool charges per month. Is there any way around this? 3) But the main problem is the actual lyx-cg file. I have it on Github, but what do I do with it? I was expecting to download a file and extract it. But it's giving me a list of files with their codes, not something I can download? Sorry, I'm a bit of a noob. I could use a hand. Thanks! -Dan -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Grammar checking
Hi Steve, I have never found a grammar checker that it useful for one's native language, in my case English. On the other hand, my French is rather primitive and a good grammar makes me intelligible if not exactly eloquent. I did try the MS one years ago and it was maddening. It seemed to want one to write at a grade 8 level and complained incessantly when I used a passive sentence. On 22 August 2017 at 17:38, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:38 +0200 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. > > I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing > > (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. > > Is there any way to install a more efficient grammar checker? > > To circumvent the problem, I used to generate a rtf file and then to > > use freeoffice which let me use a grammar checker like LT. > > However, the generation of the rtf file is really problematic for a > > scientific document (for example, I have to remove the section, > > subsection, etc..). > > > > Some suggestions? > > Last century I tried MSWord's grammar checker. I found it a great idea > impossible to implement. It would often let fly sentences with a wrong > word, and worse yet, it would flag lots of sentences that any author > would feel good about writing. > > I think that, once you get past absolutely horrible grammar, grammar > checking becomes nothing but frustration. > > I mentioned MSWord, which is obviously bad software, but I really think > it's impossible to implement a useful grammar checker with the current > state of AI. Wait another 10 years and perhaps grammar checkers will > learn how we authors talk, and base checking on that. > > SteveT > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
Re: Grammar checking
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 05:38:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:38 +0200 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. > > I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing > > (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. > > Is there any way to install a more efficient grammar checker? > > To circumvent the problem, I used to generate a rtf file and then to > > use freeoffice which let me use a grammar checker like LT. > > However, the generation of the rtf file is really problematic for a > > scientific document (for example, I have to remove the section, > > subsection, etc..). > > > > Some suggestions? > > Last century I tried MSWord's grammar checker. I found it a great idea > impossible to implement. It would often let fly sentences with a wrong > word, and worse yet, it would flag lots of sentences that any author > would feel good about writing. > > I think that, once you get past absolutely horrible grammar, grammar > checking becomes nothing but frustration. > > I mentioned MSWord, which is obviously bad software, but I really think > it's impossible to implement a useful grammar checker with the current > state of AI. Wait another 10 years and perhaps grammar checkers will > learn how we authors talk, and base checking on that. Patrick, take a look at the old ticket (but with recent discussion): https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4878 Please feel free to join the discussion. As for if there is a way for a more effective grammar checker, you might like comment:9 on that ticket. Note, however, that it is only for English. Steve, I agree with you for the most part. Sometimes, though, the grammar checker catches simple mistakes that my eyes do not. I can read a sentence 10 times and somehow not catch a singular/plural mismatch. I have found it helpful [1] to read my paper backwards [2] in order to catch certain types of errors. Scott [1] Thanks to my high school teacher Mrs. Coulter for this suggestion! [2] I originally had "backwords". Luckily I read this sentence backwards :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Grammar checking
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:38 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. > I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing > (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. > Is there any way to install a more efficient grammar checker? > To circumvent the problem, I used to generate a rtf file and then to > use freeoffice which let me use a grammar checker like LT. > However, the generation of the rtf file is really problematic for a > scientific document (for example, I have to remove the section, > subsection, etc..). > > Some suggestions? Last century I tried MSWord's grammar checker. I found it a great idea impossible to implement. It would often let fly sentences with a wrong word, and worse yet, it would flag lots of sentences that any author would feel good about writing. I think that, once you get past absolutely horrible grammar, grammar checking becomes nothing but frustration. I mentioned MSWord, which is obviously bad software, but I really think it's impossible to implement a useful grammar checker with the current state of AI. Wait another 10 years and perhaps grammar checkers will learn how we authors talk, and base checking on that. SteveT
Grammar checking
Hello, lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. Is there any way to install a more efficient grammar checker? To circumvent the problem, I used to generate a rtf file and then to use freeoffice which let me use a grammar checker like LT. However, the generation of the rtf file is really problematic for a scientific document (for example, I have to remove the section, subsection, etc..). Some suggestions? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===
grammar checker
Dear all, Is it possible to use a grammar checker in Lyx. I tried to install lyx-gcas explained in this link : http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker. However, it did not work. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Best regards, Febty
Re: Asking for Grammar Check
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Hamza N. wrote: > Hi Everybody, I’d like to know if there will be any grammar check in the > next versions of LyX ! > > Thanks ! See http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker I have no experience with it and the last update was a couple of years old. Please post back your findings. Scott
Asking for Grammar Check
Hi Everybody, I’d like to know if there will be any grammar check in the next versions of LyX ! Thanks !
Grammar check in Lyx
Hi, I am using Lyx 2.0 Beta 2 on Linux Mint with Texlive 2010. I wanted to set up the Grammar check for lyx but there is not any Lyx-gc-0.4! and all the documentation about the grammar check is from years ago and not updated. I already installed the chktex and languagetool 1.1. please can you help me out regarding installation and configuration of this app? Regards Amir
Re: grammar check?
I'm definitely interested in this. If someone will be adding this functionalty, I'll happily help debugging it. Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada 2010/4/17 Marcelo Acuña > > > It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions > > of lyx? > > > No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be > > linked into > > LyX, if someone wanted to do that work. > > > > Richard > Open Office has one, although with a poor implementation of the Spanish. > > Marcelo > > > >
Re: grammar check?
> > It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions > of lyx? > No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be > linked into > LyX, if someone wanted to do that work. > > Richard Open Office has one, although with a poor implementation of the Spanish. Marcelo
Re: grammar check?
On 04/17/2010 11:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions of lyx? No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be linked into LyX, if someone wanted to do that work. Richard
grammar check?
It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions of lyx? Thanks Marcelo Marcelo Acuña visitá mi sitio web http://www.aleph-uno.com.ar ==
Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker I would be interested to hear your experiences with it.If you have any difficulty getting it to work, email me. Sadat wrote: "I am switching from MS Word" I thought he might still be using the Windows OS, just LyX instead of Word. I think you mentioned that your grammar checker would probably work on Windows->Cygwin and Linux, but not Windows.
Re: English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
On 5/12/06, Sadat Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I believe this is the only grammar checker that integrates itself into the LyX GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker I would be interested to hear your experiences with it.If you have any difficulty getting it to work, email me. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted
English Language Grammar Checker Solution?
How do LYX users (and perhaps TeX/LaTeX users in general) deal with English language grammar checkers? I am switching from MS Word and I am a bit used to the grammar checker provided by Word. I am aware that it misses a lot of mistakes and catches ones that are not mistakes, but it still catches some stupid insane mistakes I tend to make. Any suggestions? Thanks
Style/Grammar Checker (v0.3d) for LyX availiable.
I have put up a new version (v0.3d) of a Perl script that provides Grammar Checking support within LyX's GUI. This version now formats the errors to make them easier to read. If you are interested in automatically checking your documents for various errors, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker If you have any troubles getting it to work, or have any other comments, please email me. It seems be quite simple to use under Linux and MacOSX. I haven't tested it under Windows but it should "just work" if you are using Cygwin. I'd be interested to know if it actually does works with Cygwin. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Masters Student
Style/Grammar Checker (v0.3c) for the LyX GUI availiable.
I have put up a new version (v0.3c) of a Perl script that provides Grammar Checking support within LyX's GUI. If you are interested in automatically checking your documents for various errors, see: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker Internally it checks for a dozen common errors in LyX documents, such as misuse of "A vs An" and forgetting to put a space after a math block. It can be configured to use JLanguageTool to provide full grammar checking from within LyX's Gui, if ChkTeX is installed it will also detect a variety of common TeX related mistakes in your document. Rather than complain each time it is too stupid to understand your grammar, it checks your text against ~400 common errors each of which can be disabled by editing a text file. It seems be quite simple to use under Linux and MacOSX. I haven't tested it under Windows but it should "just work" if you are using Cygwin. I'd be interested to know if it actually does works with Cygwin. If it doesn't "just work", mail me with any errors or symptoms etc. Also if anyone has knowledge of how Cygwin relates to the LyX project, I'd appreciate it if they filled out my stub at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Windows/Cygwin?action=edit -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Masters Student
New Grammar Checker for LyX
I have written a Perl script that provides Grammar Checking support within LyX's GUI: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker Internally it checks for a dozen common errors in LyX documents, such as misuse of "A vs An" and forgetting to put a space after a math block. It can be configured to use JLanguageTool to provide full grammar checking from within LyX's Gui. Rather than complain each time it is too stupid to understand your grammar, it checks your text against ~400 common errors each of which can be disabled by editing a text file. It seems be quite simple to use under Linux and MacOSX. I haven't tested it under Windows but it should "just work" if you are using Cygwin. I'd be interested to know if it actually does works with Cygwin. Also if anyone has knowledge of how Cygwin relates to the LyX project, I'd appreciate it if they filled out my stub at: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Windows/Cygwin -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Masters Student
Re: Grammar
Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:46:17 GMT, [Johan Ingvast] wrote : \_ Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link This has been discussed very recently and should be in the LyX mailing list archive, wherever it is located. You can locate the entire thread using the message headers below: Thanks for letting me know. I thought I followed the list so I didn't bother to check. Must have missed this one. /johan
Re: Grammar
_/ On Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:46:17 GMT, [Johan Ingvast] wrote : \_ Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link Just wondering /johan This has been discussed very recently and should be in the LyX mailing list archive, wherever it is located. You can locate the entire thread using the message headers below: =MESSAGE BEGIN= Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:55:02 +0100 [23 Oct 2005 10:55:02 GMT] From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Grammar check? Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information Roy Schestowitz wrote: Me too. Here is the direct link: * http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ Note that it only handles English at the moment, but I am sure that, in due time, somebody will extend it. For Latin languages, it is primarily a vocabulary barrier. Such a feature can definitely elevate LyX well above Kile and others. I was looking into this a few days ago and here's some other links that might be useful: Queequeg, A Tiny English Grammar Checker http://queequeg.sourceforge.net/index-e.html Queequeg is a tiny English grammar checker for non-native speakers who are not used to verb conjugation and number agreement. We especially focus on people who're writing academic papers or business documents where thorough checking is required. We aim to reduce this laborious work with automated checking. Queequeg is named after a character in Herman Melville's masterpiece. Style and Diction http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html Diction and style are two old standard UNIX commands. Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures. Paul. =MESSAGE END=
Grammar
Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link Just wondering /johan
Re: Grammar check?
Roy Schestowitz wrote: > Me too. Here is the direct link: > > * http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ > > Note that it only handles English at the moment, but I am sure that, in > due time, somebody will extend it. For Latin languages, it is primarily a > vocabulary barrier. Such a feature can definitely elevate LyX well above > Kile and others. I was looking into this a few days ago and here's some other links that might be useful: Queequeg, A Tiny English Grammar Checker http://queequeg.sourceforge.net/index-e.html Queequeg is a tiny English grammar checker for non-native speakers who are not used to verb conjugation and number agreement. We especially focus on people who're writing academic papers or business documents where thorough checking is required. We aim to reduce this laborious work with automated checking. Queequeg is named after a character in Herman Melville's masterpiece. Style and Diction http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html Diction and style are two old standard UNIX commands. Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures. Paul.
Re: Grammar check?
_/ On Sun 23 Oct 2005 01:34:07 BST, [Myriam Abramson] wrote : \_ I've read on /. that Abiword has some grammar check capability. http://tinyurl.com/92o5p Yes, when read that I immediately downloaded Abiword to see for myself how well it truly was. Abiword, which unlike other projects does not have li- cence-related restrictions, could make use of this Open project, which can possibly be 'plugged' into LyX some time in the future... or so I hope. What about Lyx? That feature would be extremely useful to me. Me too. Here is the direct link: * http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ Note that it only handles English at the moment, but I am sure that, in due time, somebody will extend it. For Latin languages, it is primarily a vocabulary barrier. Such a feature can definitely elevate LyX well above Kile and others. Roy -- Roy S. Schestowitz |Have you hugged your penguin today? http://Schestowitz.com |SuSE Linux| PGP-Key: 74572E8E 4:05am up 58 days 14:14, 9 users, load average: 0.45, 0.58, 0.69
Grammar check?
I've read on /. that Abiword has some grammar check capability. http://tinyurl.com/92o5p What about Lyx? That feature would be extremely useful to me. -- myriam
Re: grammar checker and lyx?
Hello I don't know if my grammar knowledge is at native level, but once (e.g. MS word) puts a green line beneath something the is grammatically incorrect I can fairly quickly spot what is wrong. E.g. singular or plural verb usage or in case of cut and paste: duplicated articles etc. Anyway my original question was: Is there a grammar checker that can be used with Lyx/Cygwin? jorgen > -Original Message- > From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 24 July, 2003 21:20 > To: Jorgen Johansson > Subject: Re: grammar checker and lyx? > > > Jorgen Johansson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Not being a native english speaker I often make simple grammatical > > misstakes when writing english. What options do I have for checking > > grammar in a lyx or text file? AFAIK Ispell and aspell cannot check > > grammar, right? > > > > Any suggestions for free grammar checker? > > Speaking as someone who has been teaching English and academic skills to > non-native speakers for a long time, I can say that in general, grammar > checkers are more trouble than they are worth. If anything, they are > slightly more useful for native speakers, who can tell at a glance > whether the grammar checker has found a genuine mistake (such as often > occurs when you are cutting and pasting a lot) or is just writing random > green lines. > > Sir Robin > > -- > "A strategy is still being formulated." > > Robin Turner > IDMYO > Bilkent Univeritesi > Ankara 06533 > Turkey > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin > > > Jorgen Johansson wrote: Hello, Not being a native english speaker I often make simple grammatical misstakes when writing english. What options do I have for checking grammar in a lyx or text file? AFAIK Ispell and aspell cannot check grammar, right? Any suggestions for free grammar checker? jorgen
grammar checker and lyx?
Hello, Not being a native english speaker I often make simple grammatical misstakes when writing english. What options do I have for checking grammar in a lyx or text file? AFAIK Ispell and aspell cannot check grammar, right? Any suggestions for free grammar checker? jorgen
Re: LyX grammar
> "Mark" == Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We Mark> might want to do our own automatic generation and manipulation Mark> of LyX files - so far I've just been going by the examples I can Mark> generate and that's gone fairly well, but if we someday want to Mark> implement a better parser it would probably be nicer to build up Mark> a proper specification from a friendly document instead of just Mark> looking through the source, especially with regard to hints as Mark> to what might change! Such a thing unfortunately does not exist. We have begun in 1.3.0 to document changes in the file format, but the best way to understand the format is unfortunately to look at example files or read the parser code :( JMarc
Re: LyX grammar
I strongly second this motion. I understand that the LyX format is changing, but it would still be nice to have some definitive information in front of me. Paul > > Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to > do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far > I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly > well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would > probably be nicer to build up a proper specification from a friendly > document instead of just looking through the source, especially with > regard to hints as to what might change! > > -- Mark -- *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
LyX grammar
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would probably be nicer to build up a proper specification from a friendly document instead of just looking through the source, especially with regard to hints as to what might change! -- Mark
Re: grammar
I occassionally use diction and style, almost exclusively on first draft. I don't rely on them to fix grammar -- I don't have patience for much that is wrongly identified as erroneous. I do use them to identify long sentences and spend my time thinking very carefull about better ways to make my point (and sometimes discover either that I don't have a one or that there is a better one). I pay some attention to a few indices and I work at communicating with whatever audience I am targetting (student, professional peers, dense administrators, general public). Since long words are penalized and technical terms tend to be long, I don't get overly concerned about the indices. I always export to ascii and am not looking for a grammar checker that is intergrated with lyx. Clarity and economy of language. Ruthlessly edit out 1st draft indulgences. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Rob Koehler wrote: >Stefano Ghirlanda wrote: > >> Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Unless NLP has made some pretty massive advances recently, I think >> > grammar checkers will continue to be more of an irritation than a >> > help. >> >> Well, we shouldn't generalise that much, I think. I have a friend who >> is slighly dyslexic, and moreover English is not his mother >> tongue. Even checking that third-persons of verbs and plurals end in s >> is a great help to him. >> >> -- >> Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet >> email: you know it already, tel: +46-8-164055, fax:+46-8-167715 >> the free science campaign: http://ethology.zool.su.se/freescience > >Well I do speak, read and write english fluently, the reason I am >interested in a grammar checker is that a thesis is a very large and >complicated document. You just want to be sure that you haven't made >little mistakes that are going to necessitate a rewrite! It's better if >it is right the first time! > >L8r >Rob > >Dept Mech Eng >Adelaide University > > -- Mark Hansel PO Box 41 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN 56563 ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwwcj.mnstate.edu
Re: grammar
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote: > Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unless NLP has made some pretty massive advances recently, I think > > grammar checkers will continue to be more of an irritation than a > > help. > > Well, we shouldn't generalise that much, I think. I have a friend who > is slighly dyslexic, and moreover English is not his mother > tongue. Even checking that third-persons of verbs and plurals end in s > is a great help to him. > > -- > Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet > email: you know it already, tel: +46-8-164055, fax:+46-8-167715 > the free science campaign: http://ethology.zool.su.se/freescience Well I do speak, read and write english fluently, the reason I am interested in a grammar checker is that a thesis is a very large and complicated document. You just want to be sure that you haven't made little mistakes that are going to necessitate a rewrite! It's better if it is right the first time! L8r Rob Dept Mech Eng Adelaide University
Re: grammar
Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unless NLP has made some pretty massive advances recently, I think > grammar checkers will continue to be more of an irritation than a > help. Well, we shouldn't generalise that much, I think. I have a friend who is slighly dyslexic, and moreover English is not his mother tongue. Even checking that third-persons of verbs and plurals end in s is a great help to him. -- Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet email: you know it already, tel: +46-8-164055, fax:+46-8-167715 the free science campaign: http://ethology.zool.su.se/freescience
Re: grammar
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 21:38, you wrote: > * Robert Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010321 08:27]: > > Hi, > > > > A question for all those using Lyx to write any type of document! > > I am writing my PhD thesis in Lyx and was wondering how people > > are checking the grammar in their documents? Yes we have a spell-checker > > > > in Lyx but how about a grammar-checker? I've never been keen on grammar checkers. In the bad old days when I used MS Word, the only thing I found the grammar checker useful for was checking that I had the right number of spaces after punctuation (which of course I don't need to do in LyX). Unless NLP has made some pretty massive advances recently, I think grammar checkers will continue to be more of an irritation than a help. Robin
Re: grammar
* Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010321 21:41]: > * Robert Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010321 08:27]: > > Hi, > > > > A question for all those using Lyx to write any type of document! > > I am writing my PhD thesis in Lyx and was wondering how people > > are checking the grammar in their documents? Yes we have a spell-checker > > > > in Lyx but how about a grammar-checker? > > > > Is there some other Unix based software that does this on latex code, if > > Lyx can't? > > I don't know about something for latex, but there is for text (you can > convert the latex to text or directly from lyx to text), I dont have a > direct link to it but I found a link that mention a program called > diction. Obviously, I did some search after writing this and wrote the rest of the message after finding direct links to it. Anyhow this programs dont do too good of a job, but they are as good as it gets for free. -- Baruch Even http://baruch.ev-en.org/
Re: grammar
* Robert Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010321 08:27]: > Hi, > > A question for all those using Lyx to write any type of document! > I am writing my PhD thesis in Lyx and was wondering how people > are checking the grammar in their documents? Yes we have a spell-checker > > in Lyx but how about a grammar-checker? > > Is there some other Unix based software that does this on latex code, if > Lyx can't? I don't know about something for latex, but there is for text (you can convert the latex to text or directly from lyx to text), I dont have a direct link to it but I found a link that mention a program called diction. Just the link where I found the reference: http://kb.indiana.edu/data/actd.html?cust=5912 This is a link to the programs diction and style: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html The source is at: http://www.moria.de/~michael/diction/diction.tar.gz -- Baruch Even http://baruch.ev-en.org/
grammar
Hi, A question for all those using Lyx to write any type of document! I am writing my PhD thesis in Lyx and was wondering how people are checking the grammar in their documents? Yes we have a spell-checker in Lyx but how about a grammar-checker? Is there some other Unix based software that does this on latex code, if Lyx can't? Regards Robert Koehler Dept of Mech Eng Adelaide University Adelaide, South Aust Australia
