Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!edcogsci!rda From: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Grammar checkers Message-ID: <5182@scott.ed.ac.uk> Date: 16 Apr 91 13:56:37 GMT References: <198900009@peg> <1991Apr9.185846.18501@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK Lines: 31 hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes: >>In article <198900009@peg> pkane@peg.UUCP writes: >>> >>>Does anyone out there know of a really good grammar checker? >>Your brain. I just couldn't resist any longer. >The two top contenders are Gramatik Mac and Sensible Grammar. Sorry to re-open this one yet again. If what you are after is a *grammar* checker -- something that checks your *syntax* -- then you *don't* want Sensible Grammar because it does not make any attempt at checking syntax. Check out Houghton Mifflin's CorrecText, or whatever they call it now. It's pretty good. I just get so annoyed about the misuse of terminology by vendors ... R -------- Robert Dale Phone: +44 31 650 4416 | University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 31 662 4912 | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: rda%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.cogsci or R.Dale@uk.ac.ed | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland -- Robert Dale Phone: +44 31 650 4416 | University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 31 662 4912 | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: rda%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.cogsci or R.Dale@uk.ac.ed | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland