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
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 no
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 G
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 re
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!
>>
>> http://www.g
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 ma
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!
>
> http://www.gallois.com.br/blog/2008/07/30
->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 compari
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
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.
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 to c
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 not
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 gramma
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 th
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