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Lightproof grammar checker development framework

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Lightproof is a grammar checker development framework. The distribution contains also three OpenOffice.org grammar checker extensions: en_US, hu_HU (see the Lightproof-hu_HU extension page), ru_RU. Download the package to develop a grammar checker for your language (see doc/manual.txt).

Features:

– language-neutral proofreading tool (see data/ for language data)
– native OpenOffice.org Options support
– high-level regex-based rule definition language
– optional Python conditions in the rules
– integration with Hunspell morphological analyser
– written in Python using fast regex module of CPython
– lazy loading of language modules
– template (data/template.dat) for new languages
– optional [code] sections in the rule files to add new Python functions

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Operating System: System Independent
Version: 1.4.1
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License: Opensource | GNU Lesser General Public License

Provider: FSF.hu
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Comments

Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:55 — marco5811

Lightproof has some

Lightproof has some interesting feature, for example, native OpenOffice.org Options dialog support, programmable rules with user sázkové kanceláře defined Python codes, Hunspell integration (over UNO) for spell checking and morphological analysis) etc. Real grammar checking is only one of the sázkové tipy possible tasks of a proofreading extension. For example, Settings dialog of the stavkove kancelarie Hungarian extension contains three sections: orthographical, proofreading and typographical options (for example, optional rules for suggesting word forms with Unicode sázky ligatures).Thanks and all the best to all.

Sun, 11/28/2010 - 23:58 — olivierr

Thank you!

Lightproof is a great tool!

Is there a roadmap? Do you still work on it?

By the way, here is few improvements I am willing to backport to Lightproof :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightproof/+bug/682509

Sat, 07/16/2011 - 13:18 — nemeth

Hi Olivier,

Thanks, also for your great patches. The recent version (1.4.1) contains some important fixes and little improvements, next month I plan a new release with bigger changes (rule based sentence boundary detection, partially based on your [paragraph/sentence] patch; improved syntax and environment for developing and testing grammar checker rules, POS tagging, extended English module, customizable language modules, etc.).

Sat, 02/06/2010 - 18:50 — shortcircuit

Lightproof grammar check

I have installed Lightproof on OOO3.1.1, restarted OOO entered this text:

"This sentence is a grammar nightmare? There did by no way to sense make of this. Grammar checking are useless is will you get hosed."

and LT did not flag any errors.

As far as I am concerned, LT is worthless, unless someone can point out my error in using LT.

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 16:07 — nemeth

This is a development tool with an English demo

Lightproof is a framework to develop OpenOffice.org proofreading extensions (checkers working on sentence level). The English demo extension contains some punctuation checking and a few real grammar rules. Lightproof has some interesting feature, for example, native OpenOffice.org Options dialog support, programmable rules with user defined Python codes, Hunspell integration (over UNO) for spell checking and morphological analysis) etc. Real grammar checking is only one of the possible tasks of a proofreading extension. For example, Settings dialog of the Hungarian extension contains three sections: orthographical, proofreading and typographical options (for example, optional rules for suggesting word forms with Unicode ligatures). In my opinion, punctuation checking is more important for proofreading. (Moreover, I believe, using default ambiguous rule based or statistical grammar checking is a nightmare for the average user because of the false alarms.) [By the way, LT is the acronym of the LanguageTool grammar checker extension (not Lightproof).]

Tue, 05/05/2009 - 14:42 — Bobf

lightproof not update able in OO 3.1.0

Hi,

used OO 3.0.1 and lightproof 0.9.4. The installation was sccessful and without problems.
Today i have update the OO to 3.1.0 and wanna update lightproof to 1.0.0 but it fails with an java exceptions... an uninstall fails too.
How can i update or install lightproof 1.0.0 in OO 3.1.0, or remove lightproof 0.9.4 from OO 3.1.0?
Is this a know issue?

many thanks Bob

Tue, 05/05/2009 - 22:53 — nemeth

LanguageTool and Lightproof

Hi,

LanguageTool 0.9.4 and Lightproof 1.0 are different programs. English grammar checking rules of Lightproof are mostly limited
to punctuation checking yet, unlike the LanguageTool grammar checker extension. You can update LanguageTool here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/languagetool

A possible issue with Lightproof: broken Python–UNO Bridge on Mac OS X (Issue 92661). A fix from MultiRacio: http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/news/mac-patcher-released

I have successfully tested Lightproof 1.0 also with OOo 3.1 RC 1, but only on Windows. If you have installation problems, you can remove all extensions by deleting the uno_packages folder, see LanguageTool extension page for the instructions.

Best regards,
László