There appear to be two main candidates for English speakers, After the Deadline and LanguageTool. Has anyone here tried them? Which would you rate the better?
AJ
There appear to be two main candidates for English speakers, After the Deadline and LanguageTool. Has anyone here tried them? Which would you rate the better?
AJ
This may not be any help to you, but I use Libre Office, and off-shoot of Open Office, and I use the built in Grammar Checker it has. I do use it's built-in link to download and install a UK English Dictionary, and that's it.
Thanks Ernest. Are the authors of the grammar checker credited? It might be that Libre Office chose one of those available as an extension to OpenOffice.
AJ
Are the authors of the grammar checker credited?
Not that I can easily find, however, when you go:
Tools - - Options - - Language Settings - - Writing Aids
it lists the following modules:
Hunspell SpellChecker
Lightproof grammar checker (English)
Libhyphen Hyphenator
OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus
dictionaries:
standard (all)
en-GB (English UK)
en-US (English USA)
technical (All)
IgnoreAllList (All)
..............
I google search took me to:
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/lightproof-grammar-checker-development-framework
that may be of help to you.
Thanks for going to all that trouble on my behalf but I'm even more confused. The OpenOffice version of Lightproof seems to be slated as a framework for grammar rules rather than a fully fledged product, and there are lots of disappointed reviews about things it doesn't spot. I guess when it became a built-in for Libre Office, they didn't back-port their enhancements to the OpenOffice extension.
Of course, I might have got things completely wrong.
AJ
OpenOffice version of Lightproof seems to be slated as a framework for grammar rules
You may be right, I just looked further and found these two links:
http://wiki.languagetool.org/other-open-source-grammar-checkers
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10509181/can-the-libreoffice-lightproof-grammar-library-be-used-externally
One of which says: Lightproof, a Python-based grammar checker embedded in LibreOffice since 3.5, Lightproof editor
However, if you're using Open Office, and Libre Office is a fork from it and still very much the same interface, is there any reason why you don't just download Libre Office and try it, it is free at:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/
I also searched on open source grammar checker
and found this link below and some on-line services.
https://www.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/grammar.html