Re: move mailing list to forum?

2016-09-26 Thread Jan Schreiber
I agree. --Jan Am 26.09.2016 um 11:31 schrieb Mike Unwalla: > I am in favour of this proposed change. > > Mike > -- ___ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@list

Re: Help improve rule pt_PT

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
chine. Am 17.08.2016 um 14:05 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Thanks, Jan, I use "1" and "3" but TESTRULES PT gives an error in: > Com o verbo haver não é necessário usar "atrás": \1 > \2 \3. > > Can you help? > > Thanks! > > On 17/08/2016 12:36, J

Re: English native speaker help

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi list, What Athena says is exactly what I learned in school, and they were supposed to teach us British English there. So it's probably safe to add this as a rule for both variants. See also: http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/grammar-present-perfect-have-you-ever-been-to/ Best, Jan Am 17

Re: Help improve rule pt_PT

2016-08-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marco, I think you could replace from your original version with the following: (Replace 0 with 1 if necessary.) Best, Jan Am 17.08.2016 um 13:25 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Yakov, > > It didn't work. > > I tried it in the stand-alone tool after using *TESTRULES PT*, with the > sentences: > *Is

Re: I want become a maintainer in PT-BR

2016-06-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Matheus, Just in case you are struggling with git (as I do), here is a helpful basic guide: http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ My advice, for what it's worth: As a first step, take a look at the grammar.xml file for European Portuguese or any other language that you happen to be familiar

Re: bulk corrections in Wikipedia using LT

2016-06-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Jaume, This is so great, thank you! I have been dreaming about a bot that can make the process of correcting Wikipedia semi-automatic for years. As they say, I just never got around to writing it because I had too much on my plate. --Jan Am 27.06.2016 um 14:27 schrieb Jaume Ortolà i Font: > F

Re: Create rule - comma before word(s)

2016-04-26 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Marco, Here's what I would try: [,;:—\–\(] mas|porém|contudo|entretanto|todavia Usar vírgula: \1, Eu gosto muito de chocolate mas não posso comer para não engordar. [,;:—\–\(] no entanto Us

How to celebrate 1000 Facebook fans?

2016-04-24 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dear list, Our Facebook page has about 950 fans so far. If growth continues at the current rate, we'll be able to welcome our 1000th fan in about a month from now. Any ideas for a celebrational Facebook post on that occasion? Best, Jan ---

Re: Link to LT Wiki

2016-03-30 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 30.03.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Mike Unwalla: > Development page: "wiki.languagetool.org contains the complete development > documentation, including:" If the only purpose of wiki.languagetool.org is > for development information, then change the name from 'wiki.' to > 'development.' Reason: 'wiki'

Re: new committer: Mike Unwalla

2016-03-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
Welcome on board, Mike! Am 23.03.2016 um 17:23 schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I'd like to welcome Mike Unwalla as a new committer and maintainer for > English in LT. Mike has been around on this mailing list for a long time > and he's very experienced with writing rules for technical English. > W

Re: MS Word add-in for LT

2016-01-29 Thread Jan Schreiber
> There's > also a "Tipography" check box (it should rather by Typography, btw) > whose meaning is unclear to me. Is it punctuation or spelling? In German, I use the Typography category for rules that aren't exactly punctuation errors, but are more or or less of an aesthetic nature. For example

Re: Bug in German rule

2016-01-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thanks for the report! That bug is my fault. When I wrote the rule, I tacitly assumed that SENT_END would always be a punctuation mark, I wasn't aware that it can ever be a word. If we revert Daniel's last change and use (something like) the following to match a period or an exclamation mark at th

Re: new syntax available

2015-10-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
That's great news, Daniel! A very powerful new feature. Am 05.10.2015 14:59, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > there's now a first and limited implementation of the syntax in > master. Instead of > > foo > > you can now use > > foo > --

Re: Integration of LanguageTool with VisualEditor

2015-07-28 Thread Jan Schreiber
> Sorry, it's "Internal error". I get it every time I visit > http://tools.wmflabs.org/languageproofing/ Same here. Am 28.07.2015 16:05, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2015-07-28 15:10, Ankita Kumari wrote: > >> Hi, how did you get "Internal server error"? That would still be >> progress because so f

Re: thanking contributors

2015-07-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi Daniel, The title element of the page reads LanguageTool Contact I guess 'Contact' should be replaced with 'Team'. Best, Jan Am 03.07.2015 17:18, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I've added a new page https://languagetool.org/team/ that lists all the > people who have ever contributed to L

Re: new committer: Peter Lawrence

2015-06-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Excellent news. Welcome on board, Peter! Am 19.06.2015 21:24, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I'd like to welcome Peter Lawrence as a new committer. If you haven't > noticed him yet, that's because he has contributed his high-quality > rules for English via our forum. We're looking forward to y

Re: confusion probability rule now online

2015-06-01 Thread Jan Schreiber
Daniel, the confusion probability rule might work well with these pairs: begin - being expect - except passed - past peace - piece principal - principle quiet - quite quit - quite raise - rise seen - scene weather - whether The following pair might or might not work, since the words are semantic

LanguageTool likes its own Facebook posts

2015-05-29 Thread Jan Schreiber
how to switch back. On a "real" computer there is an icon under the post that allows me to choose whether I want to act as LanguageTool, Jan Schreiber, or as The Tin Foil Hat Society. Please ignore this mail if i

Re: confusion probability rule now online

2015-05-29 Thread Jan Schreiber
Another word pair came to my mind for which this method might work: prove - proof Best, Jan Am 27.05.2015 20:12, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2015-05-27 19:45, Jan Schreiber wrote: > >> this is really awesome! Is it possible to extend this to abbreviations >> with an apostrophe?

Browser preview of grammar.xml broken

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I am currently studying the German grammar file in order to get myself up to speed again, so I can start making some contributions in the near future. I noticed that the browser view doesn't show the examples anymore, apparently because the type attribute was removed. Could somebody fix the r

Re: confusion probability rule now online

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, this is really awesome! Is it possible to extend this to abbreviations with an apostrophe? Some of the most prominent misspellings in English involve an apostrophe: you're - your they're - there - their it's - its Other important cases: then - than effect - affect See http://theoatmeal.com/

Re: Help with unmunch and Icelandic + Galician

2014-10-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
You have to use V3.0 build 64. From the menu "Dictionary Tools", choose "Extract wordlist". It worked for me. Am 27.10.2014 16:38, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2014-10-27 13:48, Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: > >> To unmunch .DIC + .AFF use my tool, Proofing Tool GUI: >> http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual

Re: "Checkout Failed"

2014-10-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, The only advice I have to give here is to keep your patience. I have had this problem and it usually went away when I kept trying. It can be very annoying though. --Jan Am 23.10.2014 16:25, schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: > Hello! > > After long minutes downloading files with a checkout in Tortoise,

Re: British English: -IZE/-ISE

2014-10-18 Thread Jan Schreiber
For German there is WordCoherencyRule that uses a semicolon-separated list called coherency.txt. This can probably easily be ported to English. The solution is not ideal, however, since it detects incoherent use of individual words, such as 'monetize'/'monetise', but it doesn't insist that users sh

Re: "Yours" missing POS tag?

2014-10-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
There is a file called "manually_added.txt" in the English resources folder. Would it make sense to add it there, or is this just a kind of record? Am 17.10.2014 17:06, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2014-10-17 16:33, Jonathon Churchill wrote: > >> Hi, when writing a rule I noticed that the word "you

Re: languagetool.org improvement

2014-10-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
I tested it with MSIE and it works fine! Am 17.10.2014 10:04, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I've modified languagetool.org so that it not only selects your language > by default, but now also the country variant. ...

Re: svn issue (solved)

2014-10-16 Thread Jan Schreiber
Yeah, this type of issue seems quite common with svn. Most issues I have had so far went away after a few hours, and the others were usually resolved by checking out to a new folder. Am 16.10.2014 16:42, schrieb R.J. Baars: > Somehow, the issue disappeared spontaneously. > > Ruud > >> Somehow I

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
ding > routines; just use: > > java -jar morfologik-tools-1.10.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar fsa_dump -d > --raw-data > > If you do want to "decode" the data, pass an additional "-x", although > if the underlying data doesn't make sense, exceptions m

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
I would love to have it, ideally in the gaia format so I don't have to hassle with converting it. But a tab-separated list or something like that would also be great. --Jan Am 12.10.2014 18:18, schrieb Jan Schreiber: > I figured out how to dump the dictionary. All I had to do was create a &

Re: users suggesting words for the spell checker

2014-10-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
I love the idea! A user-friendly, hassle-free way to submit false positives in Hunspell was indeed quite desirable. Am 13.10.2014 09:42, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > I've activated a new feature on languagetool.org for German that lets > users suggest a word for the spell checker. There's a ne

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-12 Thread Jan Schreiber
12.10.2014 17:31, schrieb Jan Schreiber: > Daniel Naber wrote: >> Can you reproduce that when using Morfologik directly? "java -jar >> morfologik-tools-1.9.0-standalone.jar fsa_build --help" will give usage >> instructions (same for 'fsa_dump). > > I haven&#

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-12 Thread Jan Schreiber
Daniel Naber wrote: > Can you reproduce that when using Morfologik directly? "java -jar > morfologik-tools-1.9.0-standalone.jar fsa_build --help" will give usage > instructions (same for 'fsa_dump). I haven't got morfologik-tools-1.9.0-standalone.jar anywhere on my hard disk. The closest match I

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I wonder if we could use the switch to Morfologik as an opportunity to rethink our general approach to dictionaries. Currently we use two dictionaries for all the fully supported languages afaik, and those contribute considerably to the large download size of LanguageTool. Why not use just o

Re: switching from Hunspell to Morfologik

2014-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I tried creating an fsa dictionary with frequency information from my German word list[1] as detailed on the Wiki[2]. The creation process worked alright apparently, but when I tried to dump the binary dictionary to a list with the command java -cp languagetool.jar org.languagetool.dev.Dicti

LT GUI: Group undo into one single undo step

2014-07-17 Thread Jan Schreiber
In the LanguageTool GUI, when I correct the following mistake in German „Bist du blind“, fragte er patzig. I get „Bist du blind?“, fragte er patzig. with an added question mark, as expected. When I use undo (Ctrl+Z) once after that correction, I end up with „Bist du blind,

Disabling rules with profiles/high level filters (was: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis)

2014-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
The upshot of my rather vague and, in a certain sense, "philosophical" musings recently was that they inspired some thoughts in Juan Martorell. Exactly what I hoped for. Thank you for your response, Juan! He wrote (among many other very interesting things, to all of which I agree): > I propose tha

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

2014-05-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Many, many thanks to everyone who took part in the discussion. My main concern when I wrote the mail was that my ideas were totally vague and would just upset some people for no real purpose. That is why I hesitated before clicking the send button. I think I did upset Kumara, and I apologize. I ha

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

Translations

2014-05-14 Thread Jan Schreiber
Here is a question (or several questions) from our Facebook page that I cannot answer: > Sébastien Kerguen: I recently finished the French translation of > LanguageTool (link: > https://www.transifex.com/pro.../p/languagetool/language/fr/). > > When will it be integrated to LanguageTool (talking

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
I can view it with Chrome here. Am 11.05.2014 13:09, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Does this work for anybody with Chrome? I only now noticed that it > doesn't play with Chrome on my system (but it does with Firefox). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Great! Could somebody who can use the LanguageTool "voice" on Facebook post a link there? My Internet connection is painfully slow atm so I am virtually unable to use Facebook or YouTube. Am 10.05.2014 20:09, schrieb Daniel Naber: > the video is now online at YouTube and linked at > http://commun

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-08 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thanks, Ruud. Daniel, did you like the result? Am 07.05.2014 22:25, schrieb R.J. Baars: > It is in dropbox, shared with daniel now. Might take some time to shrink. > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ---

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
ing video in better resolution, we're pretty much done I hope. --Jan Am 07.05.2014 20:36, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2014-05-07 20:03, Jan Schreiber wrote: > >> Somewhere near the end, video and audio are quite badly out of synch, >> that's why I am not exactly happy

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I uploaded a version to https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2khHHcwKI_hNHExbGtuQThVVGc Somewhere near the end, video and audio are quite badly out of synch, that's why I am not exactly happy with the result, but I guess this is just about as good as it gets. Also, the result is encoded in WMV

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 07.05.2014 07:46, schrieb Jan Schreiber: > Do you still have the source video around somewhere? If yes, can you > upload it somewhere so I can grab it? Never mind, I downloaded it from YouTube. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Do you still have the source video around somewhere? If yes, can you upload it somewhere so I can grab it? TBH, my video editing abilities suck, but I'll do what I can. --Jan Am 06.05.2014 22:36, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On 2014-05-06 17:23, Jan Schreiber wrote: > >> I upload

Bad grammar checkers

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Here is a very amusing article by Mark Liberman about an app called "Hemingway," an alleged style checker. It shows very clearly IMHO that most grammar and style checking software just doesn't work. LT has so far managed to avoid this. I hope we can uphold the very high quality in the future! http:

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
. --Jan Am 06.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Jan Schreiber: > I think I will have a go at that later today, even though I would prefer a > native speaker for this kind of thing. --Jan > > Daniel Naber schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> I've created a screencast for the rule edit

Re: rule editor screencast - help needed

2014-05-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
I think I will have a go at that later today, even though I would prefer a native speaker for this kind of thing. --Jan Daniel Naber schrieb: >Hi, > >I've created a screencast for the rule editor, that is, I've written a >script and I've made a screencast video. But I don't have a good >micro

AW: POS tag help in the new rule editor

2014-05-01 Thread Jan Schreiber
Looks great. Now let's cross fingers and hope that this will bring us a few more contributers. Daniel Naber schrieb: >Hi, > >the new rule editor (http://community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2/) now >shows a POS tag help automatically when you enter a field that expects a >POS tag or a POS tag

Hunspell false positives [de]

2014-04-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dear list, I have a huge list[1] of 70,000 (potential) false positives in the latest de_DE_frami dictionary for Hunspell. Among other things, it is based on the first 10,000 (or so) entries of a machine-generated list Ruud Baars sent me a few months ago. I think this is a valuable resource, but i

AW: 2.3.1 SVN folder?

2013-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
The current version is always in Trunk. The tags are more like an archive of versions. "Marco A.G.Pinto" schrieb: >Hello! > >I haven't been paying much attention to all that is going on. > >Just a quick question: >Shall my grammar.xml and compounds.txt be added inside: > C:\Users\marcoagpin

New false positives in English

2013-10-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, just in case nobody else noticed: English now has one more false positive: it flags phrases that start with "a dozen" and end with a plural noun, such as "a dozen women". Does this have anything to do with the new chunker? LT seems to consider those phrases singular noun phrases due to the "

AW: "Show tags"

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Syntax highlighting for tags in the GUI would be great. For those working with Notepad++, if somebody could come up with a user-defined highlighter scheme for it and share that, that would also be great. Kumara Bhikkhu schrieb: > > I[I/PRP,B-NP-singular|E-NP-singular] love[love/VBP,B-VP] >ever

AW: Re: LT flags 'students', suggests 'pupils'

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Perhaps moving said item to this category plus renaming the category to "American English" (i. e. removing "Phrases") would be more elegant. Kumara Bhikkhu schrieb: >Daniel Naber wrote thus at 02:35 AM 10-10-13: >>On 2013-10-09 10:27, Kumara Bhikkhu wrote: >> > I learnt that this is not found

AW: Spell checkers

2013-10-09 Thread Jan Schreiber
I am very interested if data for German is available! --Jan "R.J. Baars" schrieb: >Are there any people out there interested in new probable words for their >spell checkers and/or postagging files? > >The data that I can create are: >- language >- word >- # of times found within correct words >-

Re: He tried not to laughs.

2013-10-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Thank you for the heads-up, I am certainly one of the culprits here. I hope I manage to get rid of this old habit. --Jan Am 04.10.2013 16:22, schrieb gulp21: >> Anyway, mails you from always end up as below: all joined up. >> >> Marcin MiÅ‚kowski wrote thus at 04:04 PM 04-10-13: > > I’d guess th

Modules for individual supported languages?

2013-10-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Somebody by the name of Łukasz Janik posted this to our Facebook wall: prosze kazdy jezyk jako osobno I don't speak a single word of Polish, but according to Google Translator, this is a feature request to release single-language versions of LT. (Google and I might be wrong here of course

AW: Re: AW: Re: xml editor

2013-10-02 Thread Jan Schreiber
On-the-fly checking doesn't work me either, but the normal check does. Kumara Bhikkhu schrieb: >Hey, thanks for the tip. > >I've tried XML Tools for Notepad++. The auto-check seems to be buggy. >It complains where there's no fault. > >Jan Schreiber wrot

AW: About LT in Russian

2013-10-02 Thread Jan Schreiber
Very nice. Too bad I can't read Russian. :-/ Yakov Reztsov schrieb: > >Hi! >I wrote a little article about the Russian module of LanguageTool in Russian . > >http://www.altlinux.ru/fileadmin/news/10-conference-Kaluga-2013.pdf >page 79-82 > >-- > >Yakov Reztsov >

AW: Re: xml editor

2013-09-30 Thread Jan Schreiber
My personal recommendation is PSPad with xmllint, a command-line validator for XML. Also, if you prefer Notepad++, there is an XML plugin for that too. Use the plugin manager to install it. Running testrules.bat will also validate the XML against the DTD, which is quite helpful. --Jan Kumara Bh

Re: Hunspell expansion to words list

2013-05-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
The problem with the compounds in Hunspell that Ruud described exists for German as well. Just saying. Am 03.05.2013 13:07, schrieb Ruud Baars: > Hi. > > Finally I have a full keyborad, to elaborate a bit on the expansion issue. > > Spell checking is supposed signal any incorrect word. So most c

Re: Simple German added

2013-03-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Interesting! I'll have a closer look ASAP. Unfortunately I'm not going to have much time during the next three weeks or so, but this will hopefully change sooner or later. --Jan Am 10.03.2013 14:37, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > FYI, I have added a new variant of German, "Simple German" (Leich

Re: improved Wikipedia checks

2013-02-16 Thread Jan Schreiber
Does it determine the language to use automatically? Am 16.02.2013 19:01, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Hi, > > the Wikipedia checks were gone after we switched to Maven - now > they are back, better than before. [...] -- The

Re: Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-15 Thread Jan Schreiber
ced. [...] If you're not sure about your ideas, > feel free to discuss them here. Am 11.05.2012 14:02, schrieb Jan Schreiber: > Re: [Languagetool] Suggesting the infinitive of a verb in a rule > Thanks for the response. Is the method supposed to work for German? I > tried to do it as y

Re: Google Summer of Code 2013: ideas

2013-02-15 Thread Jan Schreiber
That's the main problem indeed. There are just too many of them around. Am 15.02.2013 12:29, schrieb Mike Unwalla: > An LT plug-in to XML/HTML editors would be excellent . But a problem is to > choose which editors. > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Naber [mailto:list2...@d

Re: Javascript-based online check - testing needed

2013-01-12 Thread Jan Schreiber
- In MSIE 9 on Win7 it seems to work well. - In Firefox, I get duplicate underlines. Apparently, this has something to do with the AtD extension that I have installed. I can't turn it off for this page; see attached screenshot. - In Google Chrome, I could not select any language when I tested e

Re: Javascript-based online check - testing needed

2013-01-08 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 06.01.2013 23:38, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Could someone test with MSIE? I did, seems to work so far. On my netbook, the font size in IE is VERY small however. I had to increase it manually to make the text readable. On a larger screen this is probably not a problem. Also, the wavy underlines d

Re: [Languagetool] public relations tasks

2013-01-06 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi everybody, I wonder if we should link to our Facebook profile http://www.facebook.com/LanguageTool directly from the landing page http://www.languagetool.org. Below the Twitter icon on the left would probably be a good place for that. As a sort of status report, there is almost no user activit

New editors page on languagetool.wikidot.com

2012-12-31 Thread Jan Schreiber
Dear list, I've had a first go at a page[1] on the Wiki that will hopefully evolve into a list of recommended editors over time. Feel free to add your favorite editor(s) there. --Jan [1] http://languagetool.wikidot.com/xml-editors --

Re: [Languagetool] Performance

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
OK, thanks for clearing this up. I've been concerned about performance issues ever since I started adding large disjunctions (in regular expressions) to the rules. I have virtually no background in computer science, so I am often not aware of the computational costs that the things I do in the rul

Re: [Languagetool] Performance

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Ruud Baars wrote: > Suppose there is a slow/expensive rule, that almost never matches to warn > about some low-priority issue; maybe it is worth switching it off then. That looks like a good idea to me. We could turn off some rules by default that are very unlikely to return an important true pos

Re: [Languagetool] Firefox extension

2012-11-14 Thread Jan Schreiber
> We now have an SSL certificate (i.e. we support https) and I did > some load testing today which went okay. Assuming the extension > will not get hundreds of thousands of users in a short > time, everything should be fine with the server we have today. Good news. Thanks for testing, Daniel! --Ja

Re: [Languagetool] compounds for Dutch

2012-11-10 Thread Jan Schreiber
Daniel Naber wrote: > On 10.11.2012, 18:37:36 Ruud Baars wrote: > >> In some case we would want to only suggest the option with the hyphen: > > That's already possible by using "*" at the end of the line. I guess that misses Ruud's point. Ruud Baars wrote: > An alternative way could be to encod

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-10-05 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 05.10.2012 20:37, schrieb gulp21: >> I know it's still on the download buttons on our homepage, but >> I will fix that tomorrow or so unless someone beats me to it. > > In my opinion, the blue squiggle does not look that nice on the yellow > background. Here[1] you can see how it looks like with

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-09-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
I like the new icon. It is similar to the old one and pretty straightforward and simple, but still a vast improvement. Am 23.09.2012 12:34, schrieb Daniel Naber: > I have already set a new favicon on http://www.languagetool.org. ---

Re: [Languagetool] vote about logo proposals

2012-09-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hard to decide. I like all of those. Am 18.09.2012 23:06, schrieb Daniel Naber: > As nobody is really happy yet with the new logo, let's take a step back and > look at others logos. What I posted was only a subset of what I got from > our designer.

Re: [Languagetool] new committer: Marco A.G. Pinto

2012-09-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Excellent news! Welcome on board, Marco. --Jan Daniel Naber wrote: > I'd like to welcome Marco A.G. Pinto as a new committer. Marco has already > contributed several new rules for Portuguese. Welcome Marco, we're looking > forward to your further contributions! -

Re: [Languagetool] logo design

2012-08-24 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 24.08.2012 18:17, schrieb Daniel Naber: > I found a professional logo designer who's going to work on a LanguageTool > logo next week. If you have any ideas how the logo should look like / what > it should contain, please let me know and I'll forward it to the designer. What came to my mind fir

Re: [Languagetool] public relations tasks

2012-08-01 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 29.07.2012 22:50, schrieb Daniel Naber: > * Maintain a Facebook and Google+ homepage for LT. This includes posting > news, answering user questions etc. I just created http://www.facebook.com/LanguageTool. What I need most atm is a good picture, something like the LT logo with the red wavy un

Re: [Languagetool] Using Subversion + Ant at checkout

2012-07-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am 21.07.2012 17:13, schrieb Ruud Baars: > On Windows you could try TurtoiseSVN .. > I strongly second that. Get it from http://tortoisesvn.net It is basically an extension for the Windows Explorer that makes interaction with the SVN repository much easier and more intuitive, because most command

Re: [Languagetool] including morfologik-tools?

2012-07-05 Thread Jan Schreiber
I agree that this would be useful. Am 04.07.2012 21:12, schrieb Daniel Naber: > Shouldn't we > just include it in LT SVN (not in the *.zip) - this would make life easier > for everyone I think. -- Live Security Virtual Co

Re: [Languagetool] Wordlists for spellers?

2012-06-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
I'm fine with that, if it works fast enough. Hunspell is no doubt the best free spell checker around for German. Am 22.06.2012 22:31, schrieb Daniel Naber: > For now, I prefer the "HunspellNoSuggest" solution for German. ---

Re: [Languagetool] Wordlists for spellers?

2012-06-22 Thread Jan Schreiber
German as well, and aspell is probably not so > good... > > I will upload a dictionary based on your dictionary for everybody to > see. It works quite fast here. > > Marcin > > W dniu 2012-06-22 17:18, Jan Schreiber pisze: >> We could try my wordlist (1.3 million wor

Re: [Languagetool] Wordlists for spellers?

2012-06-22 Thread Jan Schreiber
We could try my wordlist (1.3 million word forms) for German if that speeds up the process: http://sourceforge.net/projects/germandict/ --Jan Am 22.06.2012 11:09, schrieb Marcin Miłkowski: > Hi all, > > considering that hunspell is so slow and that for many languages, we > already have wordlist

Re: [Languagetool] Spaces in file path

2012-06-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
I confirm this as fixed now. Am 07.06.2012 11:20, schrieb Marcin Miłkowski: > W dniu 2012-06-07 09:18, Jan Schreiber pisze: >> Using yesterday's developer build of LanguageTool, I get the following >> error message: >> java.io.FileNotFoundException: The di

Re: [Languagetool] Portuguese support

2012-06-11 Thread Jan Schreiber
Excellent. Welcome on board! Am 10.06.2012 18:44, schrieb Juan Martorell: > Hi All, > > We've added support for Portuguese language > in LanguageTool. With > a total of 236 million speakers, Portuguese is the 6th most spoken > language in the wor

Re: [Languagetool] color for spelling errors

2012-06-08 Thread Jan Schreiber
I don't think it matters much, but most programs that offer both spell and grammar checking that I know of distinguish between grammar and spelling errors color-wise. Typically, I would expect red for spelling errors and blue or green (or yellow ...) for possible grammar issues. If I could choose

[Languagetool] Spaces in file path

2012-06-07 Thread Jan Schreiber
Using yesterday's developer build of LanguageTool, I get the following error message: java.io.FileNotFoundException: The dictionary files [...] could not be read if the path to LT contains spaces. Without spaces, it works smoothly. --

[Languagetool] How to enable spellchecking?

2012-06-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Bit of a silly question: How do I enable the new spell-checking feature in the GUI? I downloaded the standalone zip distribution today but I could not figure out how to enable it. --Jan -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [Languagetool] online rule creator

2012-06-03 Thread Jan Schreiber
Excellent. 5000 articles is enough for the time being. Hopefully this will encourage some contributors from "outside." Am 03.06.2012 01:15, schrieb Daniel Naber: > On Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012, Daniel Naber wrote: > > New feature: each rule is now automatically checked against a subset of > Wikiped

Re: [Languagetool] LibreOffice 3.5.4 released

2012-05-31 Thread Jan Schreiber
LanguageTool works for me as LibO 3.5.3 extension under Win XP SP3. After experiencing problems at first, I went through the following (admittedly VERY cumbersome) steps, and finally it worked: - Uninstall LibO - Uninstall any existing versions of Java (I happened to have several) - Delete any lef

Re: [Languagetool] online rule creator

2012-05-28 Thread Jan Schreiber
A very good idea. However, I find it a bit unclear where exactly the suggestion is taken from: From the corrected sentence, or from the user's error message. "Error Message with correction in single quotation marks" would probably make it a bit clearer, although it is not exactly elegant. Am 28.0

Re: [Languagetool] How to use the feature with LanguageTool from command line?

2012-05-27 Thread Jan Schreiber
> However, when I use LanguageTool in the command line, I don't see > anything about the URL information: For all I know, the URL is displayed in LibreOffice only. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Languagetool] Configuration redesign

2012-05-23 Thread Jan Schreiber
> By the way, just because collapsible checkboxes are hard to implement in > Swing, maybe we should have just a list of categories in the first > dialog, and open another dialog with a list of rules in the category chosen? I agree with Daniel that that sounds suspiciously like too many clicks, b

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Daniel Naber schrieb: > BTW, what do you think about using CamelCase for the entities, e.g. > "malenNomen" instead of "malennomen". I think this would improve > readability. I agree. Tbh, I never gave much thought to the entity names, because I didn't expect the file to become so large over time,

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
I got fairly close using It displays as expected in IE, but not in Firefox, and it doesn't pass testrules.bat. Daniel Naber schrieb: > On Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, Jan Schreiber wrote: > >> Not a bug, but a (major) annoyance for me: When grammar.xml is displayed >>

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
I just found this: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/14/trxml10.html It looks as if it uses an XML-internal method. I'll try it and report back how it works. I wrote: > Not a bug, but a (major) annoyance for me: When grammar.xml is displayed > in a browser, the new external resources aren't embedd

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
er view to make sure things are displayed as intended, to get an overview etc. Can this be solved via JavaScript/css ... somehow? Daniel Naber schrieb: > On Freitag, 18. Mai 2012, Jan Schreiber wrote: > >> Am I right that this method won't work out of the box, but requires >&

Re: [Languagetool] [LanguageTool] SF.net SVN: languagetool:[6896] ...

2012-05-18 Thread Jan Schreiber
Am I right that this method won't work out of the box, but requires changes to the Java code? I tried it but the external files failed to load. The only worry I have is that changes to the categories (like splitting a category etc.) will be more complicated. Daniel Naber wrote: > grammar.xml conta

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