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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Proper Grammar?
Keywords: grammar, any good?
Message-ID: <1596@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 1 May 91 16:53:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.150435.24560@uncecs.edu>
Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS
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In article <1991Apr30.150435.24560@uncecs.edu> ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) writes:
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|I just saw a Safe Harbor catalog listing "Proper Grammar" for
|about $60.  Now, I've been looking for a grammar checker for
|some time (not wanting to pay the mongo bucks for Reason, you
|see.)  Does anybody know whether:
|  - Proper Grammar IS a grammar checker;
|  - it's any good?; and
|  - it's put out by a reputable company?
|
|Post or email at your discretion (other folks have occasionally
|asked as well) but if I've hit the wrong group again please keep
|the flamage to email. ;^)

	I have it, but I can't tell you anything about it other than what the
manual says and what the advertising hype says.  Reason:  Softwood (the makers)
sent me two program disks, instead of a program and a system disk.  #$@%!

	It IS a grammar checker.  It supposedly uses the Houghton-Mifflin
CorrecText system, which if I recall correctly is used on lots of those stand-
alone super typerwriters/quasi-wordpros.  It reads and writes just about every
wordpro format used on the Amiga, but according to the manual will puke mightily
on WordPerfect (there's a list of about a billion formatting instructions that 
will get lost in the process).

	I should have a replacement disk in a few days, but until then I can't
vouch for the quality.  When I get it, I'll review it on .reviews, if there's
demand.  For now, I'd say that if it does what the manual says it does, it
should be pretty useful.  (Except that the ARexx docs are woefully incomplete
and suggest a deficient rexx interface.)


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