Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread R.J. Baars
Would it be possible to: - add a level of 'checking profiles' - that have the familiar categories - the categories just contain rule(set) id's (file_name+rule_id) - the rule-id's are stored in a number of rule files Of all profiles, just 1 can be active for the active language. This makes it pre-

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Kumara Bhikkhu
Juan Martorell wrote thus at 10:16 PM 19-05-14: I think I see your point, and I gave a lot of thinking to it. A grammar checker (or proofreader, as we call it in our web page) can perform many tasks and there are some tasks that are virtually impossible to accomplish. Depending on the user, we

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Juan Martorell
On 19 May 2014 13:40, Jan Schreiber wrote: > Marcin wrote: > > This is perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or > > Charles Dickens using such constructions. > > I think this little discussion reveals a fundamental problem of an Open > Source grammar checker, and perhaps of gram

RE: Integrating LT with Oxygen XML

2014-05-19 Thread Daniel Naber
On 2014-05-19 15:13, Mike Unwalla wrote: > LT can be integrated with Oxygen > (www.oxygenxml.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10675&e=0). Here's a similar link that doesn't require you to log in: http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10675 I haven't looked at their API, but I can't yet

RE: Integrating LT with Oxygen XML

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Unwalla
Hi All, LT can be integrated with Oxygen (www.oxygenxml.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10675&e=0). If my customer decides to use the STE checker, I will give details of how to do the LT integration. Regards, Mike Unwalla Contact: www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/contact.htm -Original Message

Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marcin wrote: > This is perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or > Charles Dickens using such constructions. I think this little discussion reveals a fundamental problem of an Open Source grammar checker, and perhaps of grammar checkers in general. In the back of my head, I've t

Re: New rule for English

2014-05-19 Thread Kumara Bhikkhu
It's true there's no mistake. You can consider this an optional rule for concision freaks like me. Besides, in the modern world of language style, there's a trend away from wordiness common in classical English. (The particular structure is necessary in some circumstances though.) Btw, I don

Re: New rule for English

2014-05-19 Thread Marcin MiƂkowski
W dniu 2014-05-19 05:21, Kumara Bhikkhu pisze: > Please consider adding this. I'm unable to test it due to the . Well, I don't see any mistake being detected here. "It was/is... that" is a way to express stress on some facts in the statement. This is perfect English and you could probably find J