> [Original Message]
> From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <users@openoffice.org>
> Date: 10/4/2008 8:21:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [users] Re: OOo for technical writing: observations from
writingexperiments
>
>
> H.S. wrote:
> > James wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, October 1, 2008 1:11 pm, H.S. wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> 6. This is more general. A grammar checker is really needed. It goes a
> >>> long way in catching silly mistakes. The LanguageTool doesn't really
cut
> >>>
> >> it for this purpose in its present shape and form.
> >>
> >> What is wrong with it?
> >>
> >
> > 1. To begin with, It misses some common grammar mistakes which it
shouldn't.
> >
>
> Go to community.languagetool.org
>
> It seems that you can help with rule development. That said, no language
> checker will likely flag every transgression every time. Even if it did
> manage to do so, you would be very unhappy with the results.
>
> > 2. The GUI interface could be much better. Best would be to see
> > grammatical mistakes as you type (similar to spelling errors, with a
> > preference to turn this on or off).
> >
> > These two problems were enough for me to decide that the grammar checker
> > was not there yet. Although I know it is being worked on, but I haven't
> > followed it up to see where it is now. If you happen to have updated
> > information, please feel free to share.
> >
>
> A new API is in progress, and much of it is ready for OOo 3.0. New
> versions of the language tools will use the new APIs.
>
> > Wonder how LanguageTool's development is tied with OOo's.
> >
> The developers of this add-on worked with the OOo developers, which does
> not mean that they wrote the code, just that they commented and provided
> feedback during API development.
>
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