Martin Smith wrote:
Going back to DOS, I had (and still have on an old Win98 box) an app called RightWriter, which applied the rules from Strunk & White's /Elements of Style/. It even came with a copy of the book, and each comment referenced the rule by number.H.S. wrote:Hello, I hope I do not start a flame war here. I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in Linux.<snip> Well the last time I saw a grammar checker on a computer was in the days of wordstar and dos 3.1, to call it crap would be an insult to crap. I have no idea where it got it's rules from but it certainly did not correspond to any form of english grammar, from either side of the atlantic that I have ever come across. I have never seen anything since.
It was/is superior to Grammatik (sp?), a real PoS, and another major player of the time, whose name I can't remember. RightWriter was published by Prentiss-Hall. I made inquiries regarding new versions or availability of the source. They were met with silence. A damned shame, as porting a DOS program to Linux ought to be fairly straight forward, and RightWriter would be worth the effort.
cheers, gary -- Anyone can make a usable web site. It takes a graphic designer to make it slow, confusing and painful to use.
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