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From: algoa@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Gregory Bowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Proper Grammar sucks
Keywords: bugs, bugs, bugs
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Date: 3 May 91 17:08:56 GMT
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dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan) writes:
>	Proper Grammar is total garbage.  I just got my replacement disks a few
>hours ago.  I've tried running it six times since, and it crashed every single

It seems to work for me except, under KS 1.2 WB 1.3 it crashes when cutting text
from the text window. I tried it under 2.0, it seems to work okay there.

>time.  It also trips over quote marks and parentheses- if you quote a group of
>sentences, it will tell you the first one is missing a closing quote and the 
>last one is missing an opening quote.  It doesn't always correctly pick up
>sentence fragments, either- one of the pieces I tried scanning had a character
>who talked in sentence fragments and it only flagged some of them as errors.

I haven't really used it for anything so I don't know how well it does the
job.

>	It might be worthwile if they get it to run, but I'd advise against 
>buying it, or anything else from Softwood.  This is the second time I've bought
>something from them that turned out to be a bug farm (Pen Pal was the first);
>I doubt they're capable of putting out a decent piece of software.

Yes, it took them a while, but if you give them a chance then maybe they'll
fix the problems. As for checking the grammar, it would be interesting to
try those documents on grammar checkers for the IBM and Mac (Some of which
have been updated a number of times). Anyway, as far as grammar checkers for
Amiga are concerned, you don't have much of a choice, I thought it looked quite
nice, but it certainly has some bugs in it.

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