The original post in this topic mentioned that grammar checking was not working in AbiWord. This is what the AbiSource website said:
I added a note to the TPFC AbiWord entry about PA’s AbiWord Portable Test. I included a link to the online help documentation. I removed mention of the AbiCollab.net collaboration site, as it is no longer available.
The last source code and Linux binary version of AbiWord is 3.0.5, in July 2021. Due to lack of Windows developers on the project, the last binary version for Windows is 2.9.4, in Nov. 2012. The 2.9.x versions are point releases. Links to the 2.9.x changes are here.
I think it would be best for PA and wPP to update their main AbiWord package to 2.9.4 and include all the plugins. To be cautious, they could also keep 2.8.6 as a legacy version, and add the grammar and other missing plugins to it.
The original post in this topic was in 2010. Since then, Google has added grammar checking to Docs. There are other online checkers as well. “Popular grammar checkers are often criticized when they fail to spot errors and incorrectly flag correct text as erroneous.” Some people may want to use more than one checker.
The PortableApps and winPenPack AbiWord portable packages listed in TPFC are for AbiWord 2.8.6. They left out AbiGrammar and some other plugins. However, PA’s AbiWord Portable Test includes all the plugins. It is a portable package for AbiWord 2.9.2.Note that plugins are not shipped separately anymore, but are shipped in the main AbiWord installer that is available on our download page. Plugins can be selected during the installation of AbiWord.
I added a note to the TPFC AbiWord entry about PA’s AbiWord Portable Test. I included a link to the online help documentation. I removed mention of the AbiCollab.net collaboration site, as it is no longer available.
The last source code and Linux binary version of AbiWord is 3.0.5, in July 2021. Due to lack of Windows developers on the project, the last binary version for Windows is 2.9.4, in Nov. 2012. The 2.9.x versions are point releases. Links to the 2.9.x changes are here.
I think it would be best for PA and wPP to update their main AbiWord package to 2.9.4 and include all the plugins. To be cautious, they could also keep 2.8.6 as a legacy version, and add the grammar and other missing plugins to it.
Note that AbiWord 2.x uses Link Grammar version 4. AbiWord 3.x can use version 5.The AbiWord team had a concrete need - to integrate a grammar checking feature into AbiWord. The best choice, they felt, was to build upon Temperley et. al.’s successful Link Grammar project.
The original post in this topic was in 2010. Since then, Google has added grammar checking to Docs. There are other online checkers as well. “Popular grammar checkers are often criticized when they fail to spot errors and incorrectly flag correct text as erroneous.” Some people may want to use more than one checker.
Statistics: Posted by Stephen Leibowitz — Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:20 pm