![]() They offer grammar engines suitable for use in the major office suites but also in other environments. As of right now, the Big Two in this arena are LanguageTool and After The Deadline. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and AbiWord all have extension mechanisms, so even though there is not a built-in grammar checker, you can find plug-ins to add in the functionality. But I did not have any luck locating options for Calligra. Please also share any tools or scripts you find for Calligra, the KDE office suite - LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and AbiWord have plenty of options. I have found a few, but if you have others or have a strong opinion, please feel free to share them in the comments. If you are writing a technical document (particularly one about programming with its host of reserved words), you are liable to get lots of “false negatives,” so to speak: points where the grammar checker thinks you have made an mistake, but in reality you were using a technical term that looks wrong if you don’t know better.Ī separate bit of fall-out from this language dependency is that I, as a moderately-fluent English speaker, do not find it easy to assess the quality of grammatical tools designed for other languages. It is likely to be of higher quality and have a wider rule-set if it is maintained by native speakers, as opposed to a research project or one-size-fits-all generic grammar framework.Īnother, somewhat related caveat with grammar-checking is that most of the time, grammatical rules cover only generic conversational language. A few projects incorporate more than one language, but for non-English writing, it is advisable to look for a language-specific plug-in for your word processor. Thus each grammatical tool must add explicit support for each language it supports. Naturally, grammar-checking is tightly bound to the language of the document. ![]() But there are plug-ins available that bring grammar and stylistic help to all of the major open source word processors. Some proprietary office suites include grammar tools built-in, although the free software suites do not. Checking words against a dictionary is trivial, but picking out parts of speech and sentence structure is trickier. ![]() Sadly, grammar-checking is a little bit behind. ![]() I mean, spellchecking: it’s such an integrated part of our word processing and email workflow these days that we feel ripped off when an application (or phone…) doesn’t have it built-in. ![]()
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