H.S. wrote:
James wrote:
On Wed, October 1, 2008 1:11 pm, H.S. wrote:
6. This is more general. A grammar checker is really needed. It goes a
long way in catching silly mistakes. The LanguageTool doesn't really cut
it for this purpose in its present shape and form.
What is wrong with it?
1. To begin with, It misses some common grammar mistakes which it shouldn't.
Go to community.languagetool.org
It seems that you can help with rule development. That said, no language
checker will likely flag every transgression every time. Even if it did
manage to do so, you would be very unhappy with the results.
2. The GUI interface could be much better. Best would be to see
grammatical mistakes as you type (similar to spelling errors, with a
preference to turn this on or off).
These two problems were enough for me to decide that the grammar checker
was not there yet. Although I know it is being worked on, but I haven't
followed it up to see where it is now. If you happen to have updated
information, please feel free to share.
A new API is in progress, and much of it is ready for OOo 3.0. New
versions of the language tools will use the new APIs.
Wonder how LanguageTool's development is tied with OOo's.
The developers of this add-on worked with the OOo developers, which does
not mean that they wrote the code, just that they commented and provided
feedback during API development.
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