Re: Grammar Checking

Grr, hit the wrong reply button, this one cc's the list.

Alan Horkan wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Robert Staudinger wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:07:22 +0200
>>From: Robert Staudinger <robsta@stereolyzer.net>
>>To: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
>>Cc: s.zeidel@utoronto.ca, abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>Subject: Re: Grammar Checking
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>>On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:13, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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>>>>>The second phase would be to grammar checking on the fly with green
>>>>>squiggles under text ala MS Word.
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>>>>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.
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>>>I was actaully wondering about the color-blindness issue. What would be a
>>>better colour? Blue? Purple?
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>blue (or purple) would probably look too confusingly similar to
>hyperlinks.
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>>The HIG says that information should not be carried by colour only.
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>Combinding colour with a texture usually works, but not in this case
>unfortunately.
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>Would black squiggles be clear enough or would they blend in with the
>text too much?
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Well, in noticing a strange bug in HEAD, I got an idea. If we drew the
squiggly double-thick (as you can sometimes get it to do if you're
(un)lucky with the spelling system), it looks quite different, yet is
still recognizable as a proofing mark. Could this be implemented as a
real feature, as opposed to a misfeature? :) Color could be used as a
secondary cue.

>the easiest thing to do would be to make the colour configurable somehow.
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>>A first suggestion would be to draw squiggles all around around the
>>phrase in question, not just underline. There might be better ways
>>though.
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>Grammar effects
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affects (while we're on the topic of grammer ;P)

>whole sentences, so it might be possible to provide an
>indication that there is a mistake on the line by putting an indicator in
>the margin (I'm thinking like a spot or an arrow, I'm vaguely thinking of
>the debugger in Microsoft Visual studio), invoking the grammar tool would
>then provide you with more information.
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There are some cases in which the existing proofer in Word will green
underline just one word or short phrase. If we go with this idea, which
I still like anyway, we would have to provide a way for the checker to
be invoked just on that instance or a small area, so that large
documents do not have to be fully checked in order to find out
information about the proofing results of one sentence.

>Sincerely
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>Alan Horkan
>http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>http://advogato.org/proj/OpenClipArt.org/
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Ryan
Received on Thu Sep 2 23:00:13 2004