Laurent Godard wrote:
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
Well, I think it is. I frequently edit files with a lots of punctuation
mistakes, wrong footnote marking etc. Having automatic checks would help
me a lot. Of course, we can go for a separate punctuation and
typographic mistakes checker but that would be quite absurd because it
is really hard to devise any clear rules (except for punctuation rules)
for many grammar checkers - for example for Polish language. I would
love to have a punctuation checker, really. I think I could even try to
contribute to it.
BTW, I think that internally grammar checkers should support the
emerging SRX standard for segmentation information exchange, as used in
translation tools. See LISA website for more information on it:
http://www.lisa.org/oscar/seg/
cheers,
Marcin
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