Re: [tdf-discuss] Grammar Checking in Writer

I have used both Language Tools and Read Text to help my editing.
After 3 strokes and having Dyslexia, I need all the help I can get.

I do not know if they work for you, but give them a try.
Having someone/something read the text for you helps you hear the mistakes.


On 05/17/2013 04:18 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote:
> There has been known problems of Lightproof not being good at detecting
> certain phrase strings, I myself only rely on the spell check for LO and
> have resorted to the prowess of my human eye and the plethora of free
> websites that dedicate themselves to spell and grammar checking. I
> notice that there has not been a major release for lightproof for awhile
> now, Also despite my looking there seems to be nothing to indicate
> whether or not there has been any recent development recently
>
> I trust that this website: http://grammarbase.com will be of help in the
> future
>
> PS: upon rereading your problem I realised I at some point had the same
> problem. My problem was when I had LO on my ubuntu machine due to my
> locale being New Zealand and there not being a New Zealand dictionary
> installed the automatic language of LO was en_NZ and thus lightproof was
> ineffective, Upon a quick google search I came across this link which
> could perhaps be of
> some benefit:
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-libreoffice-extensions-to-help-you-catch-grammar-problems/1280
> Ka Kite
> Anthony
> On Fri, 17 May 2013, at 08:59 PM, CVAlkan wrote:
> > I just did a complete cleaning and re-installation of LibreOffice on my
> > 64
> > bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I now have LibreOffice Version 4.0.3.3 (Build ID:
> > 0eaa50a932c8f2199a615e1eb30f7ac74279539) installed.
> >
> > I was attempting to explore the grammar checking feature - using either
> > F7
> > or "Tools | Spelling and Grammar ..." but have been unable to get it to
> > do
> > anything. My sample was a new blank document in which I typed "the boyz
> > is
> > good." The auto-correction capitalized the initial "T", and the spell
> > checker flagged "boyz," but there was no indication at all about a
> > problem
> > with "boys is," even after re-running F7 once the spelling of "boys" had
> > been corrected.
> >
> > Under Tools | Language Settings | Writing Aids - Available Language
> > Modules,
> > "LightProof Language Checker" is checked.
> >
> > Under Tools | Language Settings | Writing Aids - Options, "Check grammar
> > as
> > you type" is checked.
> >
> > In the Tools | Language Tool | Configuration dialog, I took one of the
> > checked examples of what the tool checks and used it in the document, as
> > follows:
> >
> > I typed in "Is this a know problem?" According to the rule, this should
> > be
> > corrected or flagged to be "Is this a known problem?"
> >
> > Instead, it suggested the following: "Is these a know problem?"  This, of
> > course, would add an additional error to the sentence.
> >
> > I suppose I could just assume that it knows I'm perfect, and just wants
> > to
> > help me appear more human, but I suspect it's more likely that I'm either
> > missing something somewhere.
> >
> > Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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