list of open source writing assistance and english linting tools

[Foadsf]

Thanks for the great list. Here I have listed other available writing assistance tools, and here some of the available plagiarism checker tools. There are also other linting tools available:

• alex
• Just Say No
• textlint
• Coala
• Aspelllint
• anorack
• Joblint

[mre]

Hey @Foadsf, that's indeed a great list of tools. Would you mind creating a pull request to add them to the writing section? https://github.com/mre/awesome-static-analysis#writing

[mre]

Forgot to mention that there is a guideline for the format of each tool here

[Foadsf]

@mre Sure, There are actually way more. I'm working on a complete list. I will put them here and if work allows I will send a PR.

[Foadsf]

lets my complete list lay here for the moment:

• Diction --> https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/
• style-check.rb --> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nspring/software/style-check-readme.html
• aspell --> http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/guides/spell-grammar-latex.html
• Ispell --> https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ispell.html
• Hunspell --> http://hunspell.github.io/
• yaspeller --> https://github.com/hcodes/yaspeller
• retext --> https://github.com/retextjs/retext
• GitBook --> https://www.gitbook.com/
• Lightproof editor --> https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/lightproof-editor
• After the Deadline --> http://www.afterthedeadline.com/
• Link Grammar Parser for AbiWord --> https://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/
• Queequeg --> http://queequeg.sourceforge.net/index-e.html
• GRAC: GRAmmar Checker --> http://grac.sourceforge.net/
• Aiksaurus --> http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/

[mre]

Impressive. Would be very happy to merge those indeed. We'd just have to check that each tool is actively maintained. Also if they are copyrighted, we would have to add a :copyright: emoji. But all that info is already in the contributing file. :wink:

[Foadsf]

• Not sure what do you mean by copywrited. They all should have their own Free and Open Source license. deducing their license to a C marking doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
• being maintained is a rather subjective qualification. Maybe need some metrics? like last updates, contributes, open issues..
• Maybe Repology statistics including the latest versions, package managers, repositories ... could be somehow integrated

[mre]

Not sure what do you mean by copywrited. They all should have their own Free and Open Source license. deducing their license to a C marking doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Ah okay, that's fine then. :+1:

being maintained is a rather subjective qualification.

That's true. There is no real metric for that. Just like to keep the list up-to-date. From a first glance, the tools you mentioned should all be actively maintained.

Maybe Repology statistics including the latest versions, package managers, repositories ... could be somehow integrated.

Yeah, I thought about that, too but I'd do that in a separate pull request to keep things simple for now. In the long run, there might be a CI bot, which pushes and updates these statistics on a regular basis.

[chadbrewbaker]

@Foadsf Some of the commercial/hosted English linters. Tempted to write a Webdriver script around some of the free online form based tools.

Is there a good corpus of English language defects? Curious to compare them all. I bet many of the commercial tools are using open source tools behind the scenes.

Grammar Lookup -> https://www.grammarlookup.com Grammarly -> https://app.grammarly.com Sentence Checkup -> https://sentencecheckup.com Hemmingway -> http://www.hemingwayapp.com White Smoke -> http://www.whitesmoke.com

[mre]

@Foadsf, @chadbrewbaker are you planning to revisit these tools in the near future? Otherwise I would be closing this to keep the issue tracker clean and tidy. 😊

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