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A Grammar Checker for Open Office
April 13th, 2008 mysurface Posted in Misc | Hits: 18065 |
The spelling checker is installed by default in Open Office, but what’s missing is grammar checker. For those who are weak in English, grammar checker is really a handy tool which it exist in Microsoft office version 97, or even earlier but not in Open Office.
Well, recently I discover a language tool plugin for open office written in java which does grammar checking. You can check out this language tool at here, installation is simple and straight forward, I have tried it on open office 2.3 and it works well for me.
Well I tried to make some silly grammar mistakes and try out this language tool, but it fails to detect the mistakes. It seems that this Language Tool still have room to improve, you can help to improves it by helping them writing the rules in XML, check out their development page here.
Language Tool can be use outside open office, check out the usage here.
By the way, did you discover any alternatives for grammar checking?
April 13th, 2008 at 9:49 am
perhaps you will need to have spell check for your blog post title as well. :P
April 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Ouch! you are right, edited, hehe.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I had it installed but found it to be more bothersome than beneficial; the checker performed its function aptly enough, however the highlighted words were not the same as those intended, and the corrections placement within the page was also incorrect.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
xutre: You are right, as I try further, I have experienced that as well.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I’m thinking about having grammar checker for Malay Language as well… ;)