Are you telling us there is a Grammar Checker that will catch more then a miss spelling ward or too? Being someone who has suffered a stroke and has problems with catching anything that is not a misspelling that is not caught by the spell checker withing the word processor or the email client. I would love to have some system for American English that would highlight my mistakes without me having to listen to a bad text-to-speech system reading my document back to me. So Yes or No. Is there something for LibreOffice to do more than just grammar checking or underline a sentence and you have to figure out that you got the parts of speech wrong or it was to be "aunt" instead of "ant"? On 01/22/2011 02:14 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, baldwin linguas <baldwinlinguas@gmail.com> wrote:On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Eclipse<eclipse-now@optusnet.com.au> wrote:Catching passive voice and other basic grammar?It will catch disagreement between subect and predicate, in most cases, although sometimes erroneously, as well as adjective and antecedent disagreements, usually. I wouldn't expect it to catch passive voice. I believe it allows folks to get away with mixing up your and you're; they're, there, their; to, too, two; and, it won't stop anyone from committing such atrocities as "There's apples in the fridge". I would consider that the most basic of grammar. It won't correct the use of object pronouns for subjects, or vice-versa, which is a common error. It seems to know little or nothing of standard punctuation. It does not recognize either, run-on sentences, or incomplete ones (fragments). It doesn't mind dangling participles. The vast majority of errors it will catch are so obvious as to render it useless, and the less obvious "errors" it catches are often not errors. It allows, for instance, the following abomination to go uncorrected: "Me and her went to by one horses." I find myself frequently correcting its corrections. Personally, I'd like to know how to disable it, while retaining spellcheck for catching typos, but, it seems it's an all-or-nothing affair, sadly. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/Thanks you, tony, that seems to sum it up rather nicely. I think it will occasionally catch the homonyms you listed, but rarely. I too would prefer it wasn't there. One thing that really drove me up the wall was in an earlier incarnation where I was using an ordinary noun as a proper noun, and it kept not realizing that a first letter capital actually meant something different.... (That's been fixed.)
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