Readability Reportby neilnThe readability report analyses your document and produces scores from some commonly used readability measures as well as a new word weirdness measure. This measures examines the familiarity of the word in every day language instead of using word length like the other readability measures. It produces a number which is approximate to the reading age required to understand the text. The weirdness metric is also used to show the most readable and least readable sentences in the document to help authors understand where their text is hardest to understand. An option is provided for a detailed report which allows authors to view the readability score of each sentence in their document. The extension also provides results from other readability measures including:
After installation, simply select either 'Brief Report' or 'Detailed Report' from the 'Readability' option on the menu bar. NB The 'Detailed Report' is displayed as a spreadsheet in 'Calc' and will not work unless 'Calc' is installed. License: freeware Further product information: Product details
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Thanks for providing a useful tool for Open Office writers
As a professional writing narrative reports, I used readibility index tools in stand-alone software and with another word processing program.
I found these tools helpful in the past and I'm glad to see they're now available for use with Open Office.
Your next version might include reminders showing the range for "normal" audiences vs more sophisticated readers.
//Don K.
Identifying sentences
Hi
I really like this and use it all the time - I create leaflets for the public, so getting readability right is crucial for what I do. The only problem I find is that, if I have a bulleted list without a full stop at the end of each line, it reads all the bulleted lines as a single sentence - which can obviously affect sentence length stats etc. Obviously, I could cope with this by putting full stops at the end of each bulleted line, but we don't have this for our final drafts and it can get tedious putting in full stops and taking them out again. It also sometimes seems to read a heading as part of the subsequent sentence. So - if this could be sorted as well as recognising bulleted lines a sentences, my score for this would go up to 5.
Philip Timms
Thanks for your comments
Thanks for your comments Philip, it's nice to know some people find it useful. This is still an early version of readability report, the next version is coming soon which will solve a lot of the problems you're having.
Readibility
I am delighted that someone has finally created this type of program for OO. I would often use the one in Word and would even copy and paste text from OO to Word to get a quick assessment. RR gives the essential data, However, if you are not familar with each index, RR does not help to interpret the data. I would have given it a higher rating if it would have included more information in the summation report.
The add-on is installed on the main menu and gives your a choice of two reports. The Detailed report was useless from my perspective--too much raw numbers. I would have preferred it in the Tools menu but that is minor. I am going to leave it as an add-on and play with it for awhile.
How to get it?
I don't see a "get it" button or so.
Just added the new release
"Get it" button is there now
It works fine
Thanks. It works fine and yields interesting results. Now I see why my boss didn't understand the letter I wrote to him.