Re: Green underlines??

Randy Kramer wrote:

>On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:19 pm, Bear Tooth wrote:
>
>
>> 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 ....
>>
>>
>
>The last time I used the Microsoft grammar checker (in Word 97), I found quite
>a few things which I don't think my English teachers would have approved. (I
>am not a grammarian.)
>
>Anyway, at that time I tried to interest some English teachers in having a
>dialog with Microsoft on the subject--I don't think that went anywhere.
>
>I don't think it is the intention of the AbiWord developers (I'm not one, just
>a lurker) to set the standard for English (or any other language's) usage.
>As I understand it, AbiWord uses a plug-in (library, or similar) for the
>grammar checker--someone will surely post the name, and then I suspect you
>will want to make your comments to the author of that package.
>
>Randy Kramer
>
>
We use link-grammar, which is a research project primarily on English
grammar, I believe from a USA university. Google should be able to find
the original project.

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Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
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