From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 22:10:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC06106564A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672178FC12 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 4280 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2008 22:10:52 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Nov 2008 22:10:52 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 51B9D5087C; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:10:51 -0500 (EST) To: Gary Kline References: <20081121012115.GA68795@thought.org> <200811211203.29000.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <20081121181108.GB98578@thought.org> <44bpw8vr0a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20081121205931.GA8633@thought.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:10:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081121205931.GA8633@thought.org> (Gary Kline's message of "Fri\, 21 Nov 2008 12\:59\:31 -0800") Message-ID: <443ahkvifo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:10:53 -0000 Gary Kline writes: > i Can understand the ``myriad dictionaries problem'' since OO > supports so many languages; but I'm looking for a grammar tool. > There was some rumble about a grammar-checker becoming available > sometime [like RSN:)] ... but so far nothing. --At the same > time, the GNU diction program has found several things. Havent > used that for ages. Oh, right, sorry; I meant to mention the OpenOffice extension "LanguageTool". As a grammar checker, it's not very good, but it's good enough to catch a bunch of common typo-ish mistakes that a spell checker will always miss. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/