Re: Blue square squiggles for grammar checking?

Hi Martin,

> I'm actually thinking of alternating squiggle shapes and colours over
> the regions of incorrect grammar. ie A sentence with incorrect grammar
> often contains valid word sequences, but the combination of these word
> sequences don't combine to form a proper sentence. I'm hoping that
> highlighting these different regions will help users determine what went
> wrong and to correct the mistake.

Hm. My instinct would be to keep it simple. A person who can memorize
the significance of different squiggle shapes can probably work out what
the problem with the sentence is, and person who cannot work out what
the problem is, probably cannot fix it anyway. Does not the checker
provide a more verbose messages indicating the problem that could be
displayed in the context menu? (Word offers suggestions just like the
spell checker does, or where it cannot give a suggestion it gives a
description of the problem, i.e., it says 'Fragment: revise')

Tomas

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> I'm very much still experimenting right now.
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> Martin
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Received on Thu Feb 17 08:33:53 2005