shunho@wpi.WPI.EDU (Shun Ke Ho) (04/09/91)
Is there any good grammar checking program around for FTP?? Doesn't it work for others format except ascII ? Please response by email. -- shunho@wpi.wpi.edu Shun Ke Sammy Ho Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr8.192615.22573@wpi.WPI.EDU>, shunho@wpi.WPI.EDU (Shun Ke Ho) writes: > > Is there any good grammar checking program around for FTP?? > Doesn't it work for others format except ascII ? Sorry - couldn't resist this - This is the second one this year who hasn't asked for a _grammer_ checker. The spelling ability of netters is improving rapidly!! PC-Mag late last year/early this reviewed the commercial ones - general conclusion was something like: "not great, but if you're a poor writer, may be helpful". I doubt that shareware/PD ones (if available) come close to best commercial ones, but if there is one (some ?) that does let the rest of us know please. Certainly, this is something with which I could do to help me write much more better? Nick. 8-)
raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (04/09/91)
Please note redirected followups. In article <1991Apr8.192615.22573@wpi.WPI.EDU>, shunho@wpi (Shun Ke Ho) writes: >Please response by email. (Hee hee, a grammar error in a request for a grammar checker...) I did, but here's an extract from the `old.questions' file in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d archives. As you can see, this question reappears regularly. S: Grammar checker Q: afmintz@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allan Mintz) 8 Apr 90 Q: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) 30 Apr 90 R: dlu@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dan Lu) 9 Apr 90 >Grammatik III, from Reference Software, Inc., 330 Townsend Street, >Suite 123, San Francisco, CA 94107. Also a program called RightWriter. R: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Frank) 29 Apr 90 >Grammatik IV has been released. I find a pretty fair number of its >comments to be useless, but I still use it to find passive voice, & >things like a word typed twicece, spelling, & basically, a guide to >write by. But on the whole, It's not a bad product. R: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) 3 May 90 >Comparing Grammatik with RightWriter. According to the review there >is no comparison. Grammatik is what you want. New version of >Grammatik described on p16 of April 30 1990 issue of InfoWorld. Q: komatsu@aludra.usc.edu [Grammatik II Pro + Ami Pro. Editor] 19 May 90 Q: eakin@rsmas.miami.edu (C. Mark Eakin) [Grammatik III + WP5.0] 26 Apr 90 Q: davec@maxwell.Concordia.CA (Dave Chu) 2 Oct 90 R: dak@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Dave Kruger) 9 Oct 90 >Grammatik is worth every penny. R: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) 10 Oct 90 >RightWriter [cites] two studies [which] rated ... grammar checkers ... >based on the number of *incorrect* grammar recommendations. >RightWriter averaged 13%, the nearest competitor was about 35% and >the worst was 85%. Q: alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) 1 Nov 90 R: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) 3 Nov 90 >I've heard that both Grammatik and Sensible Grammar are okay. R: boulder!bohemia!Greg.Smith (Greg Smith) 3 Nov 90 >Grammatick IV supports most popular wordprocessors. Q: jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) 7 Feb 91 R: v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) 7 Feb 91 >I used Right Writer for a while. I hated everything about it. R: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) 8 Feb 91 >I use Grammatik IV. R: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) 11 Feb 91 >I use both RightWriter and Grammatik. I have found that the reports >from RightWriter help me more than those from Grammatik. R: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) 12 Feb 91 >I use Grammatik IV occasionally. It will help you find stupid mistakes, >but its suggestions are frequently wrong. Q: ce3wa3bh@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Eric Ho) 22 Feb 91 R: enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Peter Enzerink) 24 Feb 91 >"MyStyle" (Shareware) analyses a document in ASCII format and provides lots of >information; e.g., word/sentence/paragraph lengths, passive voice, sexist >content, etc. The key difference between MyStyle and other programs >is that Mystyle is used to determine the overall readability >of a document, not point at problems in every line. It will appear on >Simtel sometime soon. Otherwise, you can order it from the author. >The cost is AU$10 for the Unregistered version (add overseas postage if you >want AIRMAIL) and AU$45 for the Registered version. Write to >Peter Enzerink, PO Box 356, Rockhampton 4700 AUSTRALIA.