On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:31:23PM -0800, Joe Conner wrote:
> For your information, this unzips but has no installation instructions.
> Nothing about it is intuitive, so do not waste your time on it.
>
> John Meyer wrote:
> >Adrian Try wrote:
> >
> >>I've recently discovered that the OpenOffice.org web site keeps a
> >>(short) list of grammar checkers that work with OpenOffice.org here
> >>http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html
> >>
> >>I haven't tried any, and not all are for English. I'm not sure whether
> >>they are worth using.
> >>
> >>In fact, I always wonder if grammar checkers are worth using! But if you
> >>like them, it might be worth having a look at.
> >>
> >
> >
> >The big thing I want is not necessarily for it to be perfect (what is?)
> >so much as for it to point out questionable phrasings. That way, I have
> >to justify each and every one of them.
> >
My (limited) experience has been in scanning in old (pre-1923)
philosophy texts on my daughter's DOS/Windose system; when Word
gets ahold of the scanned pages it has seemed to make awkward
phrasing more readable and yet hold the same meaning logically.
(( Some educated people [profs, e.g.] have trouble with
phrasing. ))
Nutshell, a solid, intelligent grammar checker would be a useful
tool, and I hope OO has one in a few years. And/or, that we Unix
geeks have one that can grok even plaintext:-)
--
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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