LanguageTool standalone
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:17 pm
Background
I’ve been doing a LOT of writing lately so I’ve been digging further into tools like SmartEdit (not-portable), LibreOffice, and now LanguageTool Standalone:
Review
A Java-based spelling and grammar checker, with a lot of extras. It seems to catch quite a few things I don’t care about (their classification for word complexity and “to be” verbs is a little blurry to me), but it also caught a lot of other things I sometimes miss during an edit. It seems to have a lot more available in the standalone version than when I tested the Browser plugin and LibreOffice add-on years ago.
Really it’s nice to see basically ANY program try to come up with better recommendations than Grammarly and Microsoft Word, both of which have their own issues.
Requires: jPortable and JAR launcher
Steps: Download, unzip, and launch languagetool.jar using JAR Launcher.
Status: Portable, writes to JavaPortableLauncher\Data\AppData\languagetool.org\
Homepage: https://languagetool.org/
Download: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... Tool.shtml
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Related: Linguist for LibreOffice
I’ve been doing a LOT of writing lately so I’ve been digging further into tools like SmartEdit (not-portable), LibreOffice, and now LanguageTool Standalone:
Review
A Java-based spelling and grammar checker, with a lot of extras. It seems to catch quite a few things I don’t care about (their classification for word complexity and “to be” verbs is a little blurry to me), but it also caught a lot of other things I sometimes miss during an edit. It seems to have a lot more available in the standalone version than when I tested the Browser plugin and LibreOffice add-on years ago.
Really it’s nice to see basically ANY program try to come up with better recommendations than Grammarly and Microsoft Word, both of which have their own issues.
Requires: jPortable and JAR launcher
Steps: Download, unzip, and launch languagetool.jar using JAR Launcher.
Status: Portable, writes to JavaPortableLauncher\Data\AppData\languagetool.org\
Homepage: https://languagetool.org/
Download: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... Tool.shtml
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Related: Linguist for LibreOffice