Thomas wrote:
Should one not expect that the problem could and should be solved only in the sentence that triggered the issue?
Examples: i) Style Checking: The correction might change the voice. Either the changed sentence, or prior sentences will hve to be changed, so that the entire paragraph uses the same voice. ii) In noun class languages, it is possible for a change in one sentence affects the grammatical correctness of either the preceeding, or following sentence. [I will grant that such instances are rare. The most common instance is with Imperatives.]
And is this kind of problem a rather exotic one or is it likely to run into this every few paragraphs?
I'd call it "exotic". If a second run thru of the same paragraph, by the grammar checker doesn't fix the grammatical errors, then consider the grammar checker to be broken. Of course, what I understand by what Santiago wrote, and what he meant might be different.
(I'm wondering if we really have to take care of this issue...)
>> I think returning all errors for all sentences in a paragraph is too much.
I think you won't object if I change this to 'provide all errors of the current sentence' at once. AFAIR this was thought useful mainly because of possibly overlapping errors.
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