![]() 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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