Hi Matthew
Just a quick note to say that I've added my graviax grammar checker
(still very basic) to sourceforge
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/graviax/>. I also want to add a few
comments on the proposed OOo Grammar API (see below).
great, i'll have a look
thanks
I just wanted to mention a few document-level checks that couldn't be
performed if the checking is done paragraph by paragraph. I don't
think any of them is all that important, but they are worth
considering.
my comments inline
1. For a letter, checking that the opening (Dear Sir) and closing
(Yours faithfully) match.
probably right, yes
2. Checking consistency of capitalisation and punctuation in lists.
probably too
Perhaps is it a feature of the grammar checker to detect that this is
not sentences - worth thinking on it
3. Consistency of terms throughout (for example choosing one of
'appendixes' or 'appendices' and using it exclusively).
No
it is not the job of a grammar checker
Perhaps the API should support both paragraph-level calls (for real-
time checking) and document-at-once (for stand-alone one-off checks
after a document has been written). One (sensible) way of working is
to turn off real-time spelling and grammar checks so that they do not
interrupt the flow of your writing, and then to check spelling and
grammar at the end. Clearly, performance is less of a problem when
doing this.
I personaly don't think that real time checking of grammar does help (it
may more disturb in fact)
But that's only my point of view
Also, would it be possible to provide style information to the
grammar checker (so it gets XML instead of plain text)? Users might
want to set up rules that check, for example, that certain keywords
are always bold or that latin terms appear in italics. This might
also be necessary for checking things like the relative placement of
footnote markers and quotation marks.
No
it is not the job of a grammar checker
Thansk again for your input
Laurent
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