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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Any readability tests on the mac?
Message-ID: <6968@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 89 04:05:23 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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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.

In article <21121@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>It's very easy to fool FullWrites's "Lix" index. I don't think that the
>index has any real significance.

Very true.  I recently wrote an SF short story that was crammed full of
obscure technical terms from neuropsychology.  FWP told me it was on a
seventh grade reading level.  It seems to ignore words that aren't in
its dictionary, instead of using the reasonable heuristic that any word
it doesn't know is probably obscure and should boost the level.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." -- Patti Smith