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From: hallett@shoreland.uucp (Jeff Hallett x4-6328)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need Recommendations On Grammar/Style Checkers
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Date: 1 Sep 89 16:28:51 GMT
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In article <4875@bgsuvax.UUCP> jimison@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bryan Jimison) writes:
>Can anyone recommend a Grammer/Style checker that runs on the Macintosh?
>I am looking for something that checks for common grammatical errors and
>possibly evaluates what audience level the document is suited for.

Well, I've used MacProof quite a bit.  It does some "looking" for
commonly misused/inappropriate phrases.  It also has full support for
gathering all the statistics you need to evaluate the reader level.

You may find that most software that claims to do proof reading to be
lacking.  It is still a computationally "hard" problem for a computer
to evaluate documentation.  The capabilities I like in MacProof is to
change the way I can view my document. It can show me first/last
sentences of my paragraphs, for instance, that helps me to see if my
paragraphs start and end on somewhat the same idea.  The views like
that I find to me much more useful than the straight textual checks.

It comes in both a DA and application with rather extensive thesaurus,
phrase and spelling dictionaries.

I got mine at MacConnection.  It is from some company that derives its
name from the word "lexical", but for the life of me I can't remember
exactly what.

--
                Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
                    GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414
                            Milwaukee, WI  53201
          (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL -  hallett@positron.gemed.ge.com