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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
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Subject: Re: Any readability tests on the mac?
Keywords: readability difficulty tests
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Date: 11 Apr 89 18:25:02 GMT
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In article <28686@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) writes:
>I don't know if it helps, but FullWrite Professional does this.

It's very easy to fool FullWrites's "Lix" index. I don't think that the
index has any real significance.

Nisus also has a readability index. I haven't tested it, but at least the
manual tells that "The Flesch Reading Ease is on a scale of 1 to 100, 100
being the easiest to read." The FullWrite manual doesn't tell whether 13
is good or bad...

I wonder why they missed those enabled gray lines in the nisus menus. The
first one is in the apple menu and the second is in the tools menu... That
kind of bugs are usually long gone, when an application goes into beta testing.


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