On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:30:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
-HS writes:
I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in
Linux.
IIRC there used to be such a program in BSD.
...that such a tool aids in catching silly mistakes and helps
significantly in proof
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:11:24 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-HS writes:
I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in
Linux.
I think abiword has a grammar checker, from the abiword-plugins
package. It merely highlights suspected grammar errors, and does not
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:06, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 22:47:14 debian-user-digest-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well
i know just queequeg, which works with the console...
i once made a small tutorial for making it work for a professor, so maybe
you
David Baron wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 22:47:14 debian-user-digest-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well
i know just queequeg, which works with the console...
i once made a small tutorial for making it work for a professor, so maybe
you can do something with it!
John Hasler wrote:
-HS writes:
I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in
Linux.
IIRC there used to be such a program in BSD.
...that such a tool aids in catching silly mistakes and helps
significantly in proof reading.
Copy editing, not proof reading. The
gary turner wrote:
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
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.
Now before all the purists jump to get their shotguns, pitch forks and
what not, I perfectly know that such a tool is not a substitute for
learning proper grammar. What such
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 13:14, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Now before all the purists jump to get their shotguns, pitch forks and
what not, I perfectly know that such
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.
Now before all the purists jump to get their shotguns, pitch forks and
what not, I perfectly know that such a tool is not a substitute for
learning proper
On 09/09/08 13:47, 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.
Now before all the purists jump to get their shotguns, pitch forks and
what not, I perfectly know that such a tool is
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
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:20:43 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
The only one I know of is diction. It's available as a package in the
repositories. The site is at
-HS writes:
I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in
Linux.
IIRC there used to be such a program in BSD.
...that such a tool aids in catching silly mistakes and helps
significantly in proof reading.
Copy editing, not proof reading. The latter involves comparing a
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 22:47:14 debian-user-digest-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well
i know just queequeg, which works with the console...
i once made a small tutorial for making it work for a professor, so maybe
you can do something with it!
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