grammar checker

[paulfrottawa]

Hi there: Please tell me if there is a grammar checker for LibreOffice.

 

[paulfrottawa]

Anyone know how to use link-grammar in the ports? I want to write a book.

 

[Alain De Vos]

How to Enable Automatic Spelling and Grammar Check in LibreOffice Writer - libreofficehelp.com

A simple guide demonstrating how you can enable automatic spelling and grammer check in LibreOffice Writer program.

www.libreofficehelp.com

 

[paulfrottawa]

At the moment I don't have "English Sentence Checking" in the language settings. I'll play with it and see what wrong there. Thanks for the link.

 

[Alain De Vos]

There is a package "great-britain-english,

pkg install editors/libreoffice-en_GB

 

[ralphbsz]

I don't know how good the grammar checkers in the open source word processors are. You could always do this: import your document into MS Word or Google Docs, and use them just to flag grammar problems. Both are available for free on the web.

In reality, for a maior document (like a book), the automated stuff just scratches the surface. You'll need a lot of editing to get style, consistency and clarity done. Better make a plan for finding a human editor.

 

[paulfrottawa]

"English Sentence Checking" wasn't there with "editors/libreoffice-en_GB" just "LanguageTool Server Settings" if enabled it'll go to an external server. Not good I plan on doing this without a network.

 

[Alain De Vos]

I tried spelling check with libreoffice & abiword. Could not make it work ...

 

[paulfrottawa]

OH you need "en-hunspell" for libreoffice.

 

[Deleted member 43773]

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[Alain De Vos]

Gone install both

textproc/en-aspell
textproc/en-hunspell

 

[paulfrottawa]

Found this link "http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/" hopefully I can get it working.

 

[paulfrottawa]

I dug into libreoffice more in FreeBSD and found the languagetool for LibreOffice and it installs.

LanguageTool » Libreoffice Extensions

Extensions for LibreOffice suite

extensions.libreoffice.org

It works offline.
Just got it and tried a sentence, and it showed the first sentence wrong and the second one correct just like the samples I used.
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wrong: I could care less.
Correct: I couldn't care less.

Wrong: Me and Brandon met at Starbucks this morning
correct: Brandon and I met at Starbucks this morning.

Wrong: 1980's
correct: 1980s
_________________________________

This didn't work:
Wrong: Karlee talked with I and Brandon.
Correct: Karlee talked with Brandon and me.
_____________________________________________________
If you need a thesaurus I found an extensions from OpenOffice.org. Link
I didn't see one for US though.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… "LanguageTool Server Settings" if enabled it'll go to an external server. Not good I plan on doing this without a network.

The local server is fairly easy.

LanguageTool, configured to work with the local server (not the default online service).

 

[LibreQuest]

I dug into libreoffice more in FreeBSD and found the languagetool for LibreOffice and it installs.

LanguageTool » Libreoffice Extensions

Extensions for LibreOffice suite

extensions.libreoffice.org

It works offline.
Just got it and tried a sentence, and it showed the first sentence wrong and the second one correct just like the samples I used.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
wrong: I could care less.
Correct: I couldn't care less.

Wrong: Me and Brandon met at Starbucks this morning
correct: Brandon and I met at Starbucks this morning.

Wrong: 1980's
correct: 1980s
_________________________________

This didn't work:
Wrong: Karlee talked with I and Brandon.
Correct: Karlee talked with Brandon and me.
_____________________________________________________
If you need a thesaurus I found an extensions from OpenOffice.org. Link
I didn't see one for US though.

Thanks for this post. I was looking for a grammar tool for LibreOffice.