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[Jie Li <lijie0210@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/05, R Fieldsend <r.fieldsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jie,
> if you want a purely Linux based solution (and that sounds like what you need)
> then I've found the following suggestions (it seemed so unlikely that there
> wasn't something along these lines in Linux that I just did a bit of
> googling).
Thanks Richard,
I think I probably will stick to M$word first coz I don't have much
for trying something new, I am on the edge of the my thesis deadline.
I will write my thesis first in M$word as a draft and convert into
latex later, this seems a little stupid, but might be a easier way for
me
> 
> The programs that you need are 'diction' and 'style'.  You can pick up the
> diction tar ball (I got diction-1.02.tar.gz from the UK mirror servers). It
> unpacks in the normal way, and installs using configure, make and make
> install.
> 
> It provides two commands, diction and style, one of which looks for
> troublesome words in your text, and offers alternatives, the other of which
> compares the text for entries that would get flagged according to Strunk and
> White's Elements of Style (a *very* good book on written English which I
> recommend to everyone).
> 
> There are instructions on using the programs here:-
> 
> http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_15.html#SEC226
> 
> The only question is whether the programs are suitable for your purposes. I
> believe, from reading around that they are able to handle either English or
> German, but there may be the ability to extend this function if necessary.
> 
> Hope this helps. I'm currently playing around with the functionality with the
> text I've written for my blog site, so I may be doing some heavy editing in
> the near future! :o)
> 
> Take Care
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 23 August 2005 19:47, Jie Li stood on a table and yelled:
> > On 8/23/05, Mike Roy <mjroy2416@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Jie (I hope that is your first name):
> > >               As to your question about grammer checkers within English
> > > language word processors, both Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect
> > > have this feature.  The only one that I know of that will work under
> > > Linux is WordPerfect v 8.0 for Linux.  This is a good but older program
> > > (WordPerfect is now at version 12).  I purchased my copy of WP v8.0 from
> > > Corel last summer for about $40.00 Cdn. but I'm not sure if it is still
> > > available.  You may want to visit the Corel web site at:
> >
> > Mike: thank you for your detailed suggestions!
> > I think I will prepare my thesis in LaTeX, but I will check my grammar
> > with M$Word.
> >
> > >                www.corel.com
> 
> 
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