Re: [libreoffice-users] Good English Grammar checker?

On 01/23/2011 03:03 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:22 AM, webmaster@krackedpress.com
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
> > I know that no system is perfect, but I could use whatever help there is
> > out there for these tasks.  There was talk on the OOo list a while back
> > about a Grammar add-on project, but I do not know it it ever got finished.
> >
> > It would be nice to have an option for "sound alike" words like "aunt" and
> > "ant".
> > Of course it would be nice if I could spell properly, or close enough for
> > the
> > spell checker to give me a list that has the word I am looking for.
> >
> > So does any one know of some free system that would run on Ubuntu
> > that does more than LO does for grammar checking?  Even a stand alone
> > package would help.
> The one that I really hated was an OOo extension - language lab, I
> think.  They had two grammar checker / thesaurus add-ons and I thought
> this one was better, then I wound up turning it off because it flagged
> every possible error (most of which weren't).  I didn't see anything
> like this on the TDF site.
>
> You might find it more useful than I did, but again I don't recommend it.
>
> As for stand-alone grammar checkers, you might have luck with Google....
The one on LibrePlanet for LO is listed as LanguageTool. [OOo has it as 
well].
I installed that one the other day.  Is this the one you hate or
the one you like.



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