Re: Looking for a grammar/spelling tool for XML I-D

Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya2012@gmail.com> Tue, 17 November 2020 16:56 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:56:38 -0600
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Subject: Re: Looking for a grammar/spelling tool for XML I-D
To: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:23 AM Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:

> Incidentally, running aspell with the "-H" flag works just fine for
> spell-checking XML sources. This is what I've done for years.
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>

I installed aspell on my Macbook.
But I am getting
Error: Unknown mode: "html"

with -H option.

It says I need some files in /usr/lib/aspell
which I don't have.

Behcet

> /a
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> On 11/16/2020 7:10 AM, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
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> For information, there is now a list of tools to check grammar (in
> addition to spelling) in XML formatted IETF drafts.
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> The list is on this public IESG wiki page:
> https://trac.ietf.org/trac/iesg/wiki/GrammarCheckingID
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> Hope this helps and comments/suggestions/additions are welcome
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> Have a wonderful, error free, IETF-109 ;-)
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> -éric
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> *From: *Eric Vyncke <evyncke@cisco.com> <evyncke@cisco.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 15:38
> *To: *"ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org> <ietf@ietf.org> <ietf@ietf.org>
> *Subject: *Looking for a grammar/spelling tool for XML I-D
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> Written by a non-English speaker...
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> The IESG believes that the I-D review (in last call, in IESG telechat,
> ...) could be improved for some documents if the grammar was correct and
> typos absent (and I plead guilty to do typos in my documents). Easier said
> than done of course.
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> Most modern word processors have this feature but I know about no tools
> able to do this check on .XML or .TXT...
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> So, we are looking forward for any tools on-line/off-line being able to do
> this. It could be a tool-chain built on GNU aspell or course (but aspell
> does not check grammar) or via an API to https://languagetool.org/ .
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> Henrik wrote https://tools.ietf.org/tools/idspell/idspell.pyht but is
> dated 2007 and we could probably do better in 2020 ;-)
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> Thank you for pointers, suggestions, comments
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> -éric
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