grammar checking tools in Linux

H.S. hs.samix at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 16:34:14 UTC 2008


Clayton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:42 AM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anybody know of any grammar checking tools in Linux? I am more
>> interested in tools that can be used in text editors (while writing a
>> document in LaTeX), but other options are also welcome (OOo?).
> 
> There is this extension for OpenOffice.org:
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/languagetool
> 
> Make sure you read the comments on the extensions page.. and check out
> the developer's home page at: http://community.languagetool.org/
> 
> C.
> 

Any idea how it is compared to the grammar checker in MS Word? On a side 
note, I just discovered that by including a free grammar checker in MS 
Office, Microsoft more or less killed all further development in this 
field. Consequently, their grammar checker is no better than what it was 
in around 1992.






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