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helliewm
June 9th, 2007, 07:40 PM
I have found a Grammar Checker for Open Office. Its a deb file too. It is part of the OOo project

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cogroo

Helen

Nikron
June 9th, 2007, 07:53 PM
Well, it's Portuguese...

helliewm
June 9th, 2007, 07:56 PM
Dam I missed that:(

forrestcupp
June 9th, 2007, 08:09 PM
The closest thing I've found is LanguageTool (http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/).

It isn't as great as MS Office's grammar check, but maybe it's better than nothing.

helliewm
June 9th, 2007, 08:27 PM
Thanks so much I have installed it. You may be interested in my post here for a PDF Importer for OOo.

Anyone interested in making a deb file?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=469087

Helen

macogw
June 10th, 2007, 12:37 AM
The closest thing I've found is LanguageTool (http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/).

It isn't as great as MS Office's grammar check, but maybe it's better than nothing.

MS Office's grammar check isn't good. It's just "better than nothing" too. There's no substitute for actually paying attention in grammar class.

starcraft.man
June 10th, 2007, 12:59 AM
MS Office's grammar check isn't good. It's just "better than nothing" too. There's no substitute for actually paying attention in grammar class.

On a similar vein of thought, anyone ever think that some people (mostly younger from what I seen) are becoming a bit too dependant on spell/grammar checkers? I mean these things can't make you write well... just like an online translator can't make you fluent in another language.

forrestcupp
June 10th, 2007, 03:12 AM
On a similar vein of thought, anyone ever think that some people (mostly younger from what I seen) are becoming a bit too dependant on spell/grammar checkers? I mean these things can't make you write well... just like an online translator can't make you fluent in another language.

Maybe, but there's no harm in having an extra built-in proof reader

And even if you don't think it's good, MS Office's grammar check is way better than Language Tool. But we take what we can get.