Bug 48145

Summary:	How about a Grammar Checker?
Product:	[Unmaintained] kword	Reporter:	tbutler
Component:	general	Assignee:	Thomas Zander <zander>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	khanreaper, landrews, MurzNN, Prescience500
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5 or before
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description tbutler 2002-09-22 05:44:33 UTC

Version:           1.2 (using KDE KDE 3.0.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

I know it is a lot easier to suggest something than to actually implement it, but I thought I'd suggest this anyway (It's probably no where near an original suggestion). My suggestion is the addition of a grammar checker to KWord. 

I do not know how complicated this would be (although I suspect it would be rather difficult), but it seems to me this is the only "real word processor" functionality KWord is missing when compared to Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. I've found virtually all the document I type can be fully managed inside KWord, but I usually must still keep WP8 for Linux around if I want to do a grammar check (I usually do).

So anyway, this is just a little wishlist item of mine.

Keep up the great work! :-)

  -Tim

Comment 1 Jesse 2004-01-10 08:27:33 UTC

GNU has a program called 'diction' that can do this.  Would it be possible to use it? Support is there for English and German.

http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html

Comment 2 Nicolas Goutte 2004-04-20 15:06:32 UTC

For diction, see also bug #78034

Comment 3 Tristan Miller 2005-03-05 22:12:38 UTC

It would be nice if this could be made a separate component which could be used by all KDE applications.  I don't use KWord, but having automatic grammar checking in KNode or KMail would be useful.

Comment 4 Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2005-10-08 17:31:09 UTC

Abiword 2.4 supports Grammar Checking; Could we use Abiword's source in KDE (kmail+knode+kopete+kword+kspread+kpresenter) 

please see:
http://www.abisource.org/release-notes/2.4.0.phtml

Comment 5 Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2005-10-13 18:49:40 UTC

Library which does the English Grammar checking:

The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. 

As of December 2004, we are releasing the parser under a new license; the license allows unrestricted use in commercial applications, and is also compatible with the GNU GPL (General Public License). You can view the license here. We are also releasing version 4.1b, which is identical to version 4.1 (released in 2000) except that the licensing statements reflect the new license.

Please visit:
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/

Comment 6 Thomas Zander 2009-01-04 01:48:44 UTC

sonnet is supposed to do this

Comment 7 Michael 2010-05-04 01:49:39 UTC

But doesn't sonnet handle spell checking? That's very different from grammar checking.

Comment 8 Murz 2014-01-14 08:56:53 UTC

LanguageTool is released opensource plugin for grammar checking in OpenOffice / LibreOffice, maybe we can intergate it into KDE too?