Grammar checker and display path in window's title bar

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

The second major new feature - Mac OS X Leopard native grammar checking - announced in our plans for 2008 is now available for testing.

In addition, I have finally succeeded in implementing a much requested feature: Command-clicking on a document window's title bar displays the path of the document.

To use the Mac OS X Leopard native grammar checking, you will first need to be running Mac OS X 10.5.x on your machine as Apple does not provide native grammar checking in earlier versions of Mac OS X.

You can access the grammar checking feature by selecting either of the submenus in the new Tools :: Add-ons :: Check Grammar menu.

You can test these new features by installing the following test patch:

PowerPC:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.2-Patch-10-Test-2-PowerPC.dmg

Intel:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.2-Patch-10-Test-2-Intel.dmg

Patrick

Samwise · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks

And I can test it! Yay! Very Happy

Samwise · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

The grammar check doesn't seem very efficient (in either NeoOffice or TextEdit). Is there something we need to know about it?

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

Samwise · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

It's not really speed, but the fact that it misses things like:

The English is very the best.

or

One person may not altering Alfred.

which don't seem grammatically correct to me?

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

Yup. That is also my experience that Apple's grammar checking is not the smartest or most complete.

Also, note that Apple only has support for English grammar checking at this point in time so if your document has a different character locale setting, you won't get any errors.

Patrick

miggs · Agent Joined: Sep 22, 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Canada

Seems to be working well with sentences that came up in Mail and Textedit. Smile

I'm going to assume that implementing green squiggle lines under the text is out of the question at this time.

Samwise · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

I made sure it was set to English (USA) in NeoOffice, and that spell & grammar check was set to English in TextEdit.

Nothing great so far. I guess you're right though: it's going to be improved over time (hopefully before the release of Leopard's successor Wink

)â€¦

ovvldc · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject:

Given that so many people use the Internet to communicate without English being their first language, I think an English grammar checker is the one that is most badly needed Wink

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Best wishes,
Oscar

jgd · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

I agree. But I guess that for polishing my En translations in NeoWiki, Lorinda and Smokey are better "grammar checkers" than Mac OS X Wink

Jacqueline

ovvldc · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:30 am Post subject:

True, but we cannot package a Lorinda and a Smokey with every copy of NeoOffice...

-Oz

Samwise · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject:

jgd · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject:

ovvldc · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

No, we only have one of each...

And I, for one, prefer to keep them here instead of shipping them out to users.

Good night,
Oscar

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

I don't fit well in a box (or a packet).

Smokey