Re: Grammar engine??

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Bear Tooth wrote:

> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:25:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bear Tooth <Beartooth@adelphia.net>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: Abiword is Awesome <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Grammar engine??
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > It is new and would require the latest _UNSTABLE_ version of
> > Abiword.
>
> Then it's probably beyond me for the present. (I am trying
> to get my mind around bug reports; but I don't belong in an unstable
> app by any means.)

I believe it is planned for inclusion in Abiword 2.4

> > Dom and others took the Link Grammar checker and got it to work with
> > Abiword. It is not yet available for platforms other than Linux.
>
> You mean the one at http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/, I take

that's the one

> it? I'll try to find time to play with it a tad bit; it looks
> hopeful.

That would be a good idea. I forget the details but I wanted to warn you
that it does grammar checking in a special way. I think it can only realy
mark sentences as likely to be wrong but not give specific details about
individual words in the sentence which is not what people might be used
to.

If you dont mind using command line applications and want to get
ridiculously detailed analysis of your writing you might want to try out
the GNU utitlies style and diction (see www.gnu.org)

> > Try it and see, dont rush to any conclusions it is a work in
> > progress.
>
> I'll be eager to see it. Strength to their arms!

Dont let your expectations get too high, we dont want to disappoint
anyone. Keep it real, as they say.

- Alan
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Received on Sun Jul 24 23:27:50 2005