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After the Deadline Grammar Checker
von Automattic
After the Deadline is a smart English grammar, style, and contextual spelling checker for OpenOffice.org. The grammar checker highlights common errors in your writing. The style checker (off by default) finds passive voice, clichés, redundant phrases, and complex expressions. The contextual spelling checker looks for misused words and reports them to you.
Requirements: This extension requires an internet connection and Sun's Java 1.5.0 or later. If you see a dialog with a very cryptic error message when loading this extension, then OpenOffice.org is not configured to use Sun's Java. See our instructions to fix your Java. Make sure you restart OpenOffice.org after installing this extension. It will not work without a restart.
Use: This extension uses existing hooks to add a grammar checker to OpenOffice.org. This extension works with the spelling and grammar checker dialog available under Tools -> Spelling and Grammar. This extension will also check your grammar as you type (look for the blue squiggles under your words). Make sure "Check grammar as you type" is enabled under Preferences -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Options.
Privacy Notice: After the Deadline for OpenOffice.org communicates with the After the Deadline software service to check your text. The software service is open source, you're welcome to use your own After the Deadline service if you have a server with a lot of spare memory. To protect your privacy, text is sent over SSL and your text is not stored. After the Deadline for OpenOffice.org follows Automattic's privacy policy.
Request Support and Report Bugs: Hi, I'm Raphael, the developer of After the Deadline for OpenOffice.org. I also handle the research and development on the technology that checks your text. If you have a question about this extension, use the After the Deadline contact form to reach me. After the Deadline also has a TRAC server, you can post bug reports/feature requests there. Bug reports/feature requests are also welcome via the contact form.
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After the Deadline Grammar Checker
I find that this extension continually crashes OO Writer when I try to do anything, even open a file, better than a virus on an old Win98 machine. I cannot unistall it because it crashes Writer. I am using Debian Wheezy with Mate desktop with AMD64 bit.
It looks like I will have to uninstall OO completely and then reinstall just to get rid of this thing.
Another thought, with everything being done with this extension offsite, this can be an excellent tracking tool. I don't know if it is or not. I am only saying this format with offsite corrections could make it possible.
I would recommend that OO take this extension off of this site.
Wonderful Extension
This extension was exactly what I needed to clean up my manuscript. It's like having an editor right inside OpenOffice. Works in LibreOffice too. The integration with OpenOffice is flawless; it works right alongside the spell checker. A comparison of the same text sent through WhiteSmoke vs. After the Deadline (sent via this plugin) resulted in virtually the same results. This extension works and works well. Well done!!!
failed on the simplest of test
I tried a possessive test using this extension and it failed to pick it up in openoffice and officelibre.
"The dogs dinner" - with correct grammar would be "The dog's dinner" - however nothing got picked up.
I checked all settings as shown above. If I use the browser plugin of afterthedeadline the grammer error above is picked up.
Not mentioned previously
This tool also provides grammatically incorrect solutions.
Keep in mind, these examples are not isolated sentences. They are excerpts from one chapter in a manuscript of mine.
After he waited more than a quarter hour, his head fell forward in a slow bob.
The gentlemen used the momentary lapse to check their personal accounts and passed the remaining time with bouts of superficial nail biting and thumb twiddling.
"Those of us still able bodied should learn to use these new techniques,” his harsh Russian voice commanded.
(It wanted to put a hyphen in between "quarter hour", "nail biting" and "able bodied")
Cannot detect obvious homophone and contraction errors
This tool is horribly misnamed. It should be called, "You Missed Your Deadline -- Passive Voice Checker".
Results:
Strengths:
Whoever programmed this tool spent a lot of time on sentence structure, which was probably a complex and time-consuming process. To be more specific, this tool is good at picking up passive versus strong voice. Although this is not technically an error, it is helpful in giving the prose in a speech or novel that extra kick.
Weaknesses:
The programmer for this tool spent about 30 seconds entering the parameters for common homophone mistakes, and spent no time on contractions. I took a few excepts from a children's book and purposely put in some common errors. I bracketed them below for emphasis:
Susie and Bobby popped the red ball. [There] parents [we're] unhappy, but they bought them a new one anyway. [There] going to the store tomorrow to get a new one. [There] dad said, “[Theirs] no reason this should happen again!" Mom smiled at Bobby and Susie and said, "Don't worry, [its] okay. We all make mistakes."
This tool caught none of the errors. It can detect complex sentence nuance, but it can't tell the difference between there/their/they're, and it cannot detect contraction errors, such as, its/it's and we're/were. These errors, to my experience, are part of a handful of most common typos I've come across in correcting other writer's work.
If anyone expects to use this for college level, or even high-school level proof reading, then they should expect to fail every class.
Big problem
I noticed after installing this program that my computer bugged up something awful. It seems to be related to java and this extension.
The biggest problem is when I would have the extension open for to long, my internet would slow to the point that it would no longer load, and I had to restart the router to get it working again.
Second is even more frustrating, when loading a certain document of mine, my quoted speech was corrupt! the first " and letter was a Japanese Kanji, and the closing quote was completely deleted as well as the fallowing space! And as soon as I correct it and save, when I reload it, it screws up all over again!
I really liked this extension, but it seems to have some sort of malware attached to it. Please look your extension over as I love it, but am not willing to sacrifice my writing to it's bugs :C
There is no malware attached
There is no malware attached to this extension (any programmer can review the source and verify this). Further, this extension does not modify your text--it hooks into OpenOffice.org's grammar checking feature. It passively reviews text and provides suggestions that OpenOffice.org presents to you in a menu. Only by clicking this menu and selecting an option is your text modified. I don't know what your computer is doing, but this extension is not the problem.
Great tool!
That's the best english grammar checker I've ever seen.
It helps me (as non-native speaker) a lot. Thanks!
I can has tea Does you knew
I can has tea
Does you knew where I were
but language are not OK here
Detected only the error in the 1st sentence !...
Ok.
After the Deadline corrects patterns of well-known errors. For example, many people misuse homophones. After the Deadline uses statistics to detect when you misuse certain homophones. Many writers make mistakes with verb tenses (especially with the irregular verbs). After the Deadline includes rules to catch these. The samples you're using do not reflect these patterns. If this is how you write, then After the Deadline may not be the tool for you. My apologies.
The AtD demos page [ http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp ] will give you an idea of what the system does.