Re: Grammar Checking

> [...]

>>>> The second phase would be to grammar checking on the fly with green
>>>> squiggles under text ala MS Word.

>>> This is a non-issue at this point, but please do not use green
>>> squiggles. This makes the grammar checker very hard to use for
>>> color-blind people like me and it doesn't conform to the GNOME HIG.

>> I was actaully wondering about the color-blindness issue. What would be
>> a better colour? Blue? Purple?

> The HIG says that information should not be carried by colour only.
> A first suggestion would be to draw squiggles all around around the
> phrase in question, not just underline. There might be better ways
> though.

Well, there are standard (at least in the U.S.) symbols for marking up bad
grammar (at least in English). Reference an elemetary school English
textbook.

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Mike