LanguageTool is an Open Source language checker for the English and German language. This is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.
You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect a limited amount of grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking.
Installation and Usage:
- In OpenOffice.org (only OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been tested): Do not unzip the archive, just call Tools -> Package Manager -> Add... to install LanguageTool-0.8.2.zip. Open a new window of OpenOffice.org (Ctrl-N) and you'll see a new menu entry "LanguageTool" that will check the current text.
- Without OpenOffice.org: Unzip the archive and start LanguageToolGUI.jar by double clicking on it. If your computer isn't configured to start jar archives, start it from the command line using java -jar LanguageToolGUI.jar. LanguageTool.jar is the command line checker for plain text files.
Known bugs: LanguageTool 0.8 was the first release with support for OpenOffice.org so there will be bugs.
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Requirements:
· Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
· OpenOffice.org
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Error detection rules have been updated for several languages (Chinese, French, Breton, and others).
· The Java packages have been renamed from de.danielnaber.languagetool.* to org.languagetool.*.
· Some small bugs have been fixed.
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