Martin Smith wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Hello,
I hope I do not start a flame war here. I was wondering what choices do
we have to check English grammar in Linux.
<snip>
Well the last time I saw a grammar checker on a computer was in the days
of wordstar and dos 3.1, to call it crap would be an insult to crap.
I have no idea where it got it's rules from but it certainly did not
correspond to any form of english grammar, from either side of the atlantic
that I have ever come across.
I have never seen anything since.
Going back to DOS, I had (and still have on an old Win98 box) an app
called RightWriter, which applied the rules from Strunk & White's
/Elements of Style/. It even came with a copy of the book, and each
comment referenced the rule by number.
It was/is superior to Grammatik (sp?), a real PoS, and another major
player of the time, whose name I can't remember. RightWriter was
published by Prentiss-Hall. I made inquiries regarding new versions or
availability of the source. They were met with silence. A damned
shame, as porting a DOS program to Linux ought to be fairly straight
forward, and RightWriter would be worth the effort.
cheers,
gary
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