On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, kevin lyda wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:32:01 +0100
> From: kevin lyda <kevin+dated+1094560330.ebcfcc at ie.suberic.net>
> To: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug at linux.ie>
> Subject: [ILUG] Re: [OT] Grammar & style checkers for email
>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:09:46PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
> > Heh, nice. Your post reminded me of a product that existed ages ago in
> > the time of DOS, called Grammatik, or something like that, which would
> > analyse your writing and check for grammar mistakes, give you a read
> > on how complicated your sentence structure was, and so on. One of the
> > good things about it was that it worked on plain text files as well as
> > wordprocessor documents, so one could hook it into an email client.
> > Have any of you seen something like this on *nix?
>> yeah. the wwb suite. but it is on unix - i used to use it on sunos. i
> miss them. did grammar, spelling, age level, etc. it was an at&t unix
> thing, so most "real" unicies had it.
>> istr parts of it being open-sourced a few years back.
Linux distributions dont often include them by default but GNU style and
diction are in effect rudimentary grammar checkers.
http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/http://advogato.org/proj/OpenClipArt.org/
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