Re: Green underlines??

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:

>> But we're almighty curious. What is it doing, and why? How do you
>> control it and use it?
>
> Grammar checking.
>
> Microsoft Word used green squiggles too but they were exactly the
> same shape as the spelling error marks. Abiword uses a slightly
> different shape of squiggle for grammar checking to make it easier
> to distinguish.
>
> I've not used it myself so hopefully others will give you more
> details (or now that you know what it is it will be easier to find
> out more).

         Strange. We're both grammarians (linguists, actually), and
would never have guessed. I was going to read up on the thing when
mention was first made here that one was going to be added, and
should've guessed that might be it; but I never got around to doing
the reading. I've got a sneakin' hunch the idea of grammar popular
with the programmers & developers of that app may be rather
dissimilar from ours, which is built on usage and history ....

         Anybody know offhand where the grammar-checker gets
discussed? Maybe I can find time to work my way into it that way.

         In fact, for a while we guessed it might be marking new
things. But it also happens in dialog, where people speak in
fragments of sentences -- something the developers might want to
think about.

         Anyway, it underlined whole phrases we could see nothing odd
about, and also parts of words: I recall it hit the middle of the
word 'scary' -- the 'car', I believe ....

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