LanguageTool is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.
You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc.
LanguageTool is also capable of detecting some grammar mistakes. LanguageTool does not include spell checking.
Requirements:
· OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 or later
· Java 5.0 or later
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· LanguageTool now requires Java 6.0 or later
· English: added a few new rules
· German: added a few new rules
· French:Updated dictionary to use Dicollecte lexique 4.1Added a few new rules
Esperanto:
· Updated list of transitive verbs
· SRX sentence tokenization rules
· Word tokenizer now properly handles words with apostrophe
· Added a few new rules and fixed false positives
· Khmer: Added support for Khmer (thanks to Nathan Wells)
· Russian: added a few new rules
GUI:
· Pressing Ctrl-Return will check the current text
· Fixed pre-selection of user`s language
· Made screen messages and buttons in Language Module Manager translatable, thanks to Ilona Kuzmickaja.
API:
· enabled bilingual mode for HTTP API; if you use srctext parameter, LT will automatically check in bilingual mode, assuming that mothertongue specifies the source language, and lang target language
· renamed RuSimpleReplaceRule to RussianSimpleReplaceRule
· renamed SlovakVes to SlovakVesRule
· renamed JLanguageTool.paragraphHandling to JLangua...