Re: Grammar checking

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:10:11 +0000
>> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
>> cc: rms@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > As an aside, a technology I would like to see in Emacs is grammar 
>> > checking.  Last I looked, there are no free grammar-checking libraries 
>> > or services out there, even just for the English language.  But if 
>> > that's no longer true, then adding such capabilities to Emacs will be 
>> > very welcome, I think, since word-based spell-checking is clearly not 
>> > enough these days.
>> 
>> I think that's no longer true, LanguageTool is available (and has been for 
>> ~20 years): https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool .  But it's 
>> written in Java...
>
> Thanks.  Maybe someone will figure out how to integrate this with
> Emacs.

There is an implementation[0], but I found it to be awkward to work
with.

Looking around, I found a second implementation[1], but I cannot comment
on how well it works.

One of the main annoyances is that LanguageTool does not appear to be
widely packaged[2].

[0] https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool/
[1] https://github.com/PillFall/languagetool.el
[2] https://repology.org/project/languagetool/versions

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Philip Kaludercic