[TxMt] Re: Writing Bundle [was: Lookup current word in Dictionary.app]

[Jenny Harrison]

On Nov 16, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>>> 5. Some commands for getting better statistics than the current  
>>> document statistics count.  It would be nice to have a word count  
>>> which knows how to ignore stuff in html/latex/markdown tags, etc.  
>>> etc. (or maybe bundles can provide overrides to this command, and  
>>> all call out to a single script), but it would also be nice to be  
>>> able to get some readability statistics, such as counts of  
>>> average word length, average sentence length, and maybe metrics  
>>> like Flesch-Kincaid, etc.
>>> 6. It might even be nice to add some tools for checking grammar  
>>> (flagging things like wordy sentences, etc.).  There are some  
>>> decent open-source programs for this, I believe.
>> Jacob, you might have a look at diction, a descendant of the  
>> Writer's Workbench:
>> http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/diction.html
>
> Yes indeed, I was looking at that page when I wrote the post :).   
> When I actually have some time to make this thing, I think I will  
> indeed use style/diction.
>
>> and `diction` checks for grammar (although it perpetuates some of  
>> the unfortunate aspects of Strunk and White's prescriptions---  
>> useful nonetheless).
>
> I didn't look at exactly what it did, but I assume it can't be  
> worse than MS Office's grammar check.
>
>> As for filtering LaTeX commands, I run the generated pdf through  
>> ps2ascii before running these. Won't work for html documents, but  
>> you could run them through a text browser like lynx or links with  
>> the dump option instead.
>
> Well, I'm still thinking about the best way to get things to work  
> for multiple document types.  It has to do a few things: a) strip  
> out extraneous junk, and b) figure out how to get back to the  
> specific places in the document where there are points of interest.
>

  As a Latex user, I would like to encourage this bundle  
development.  Diction, as it is, gets tripped up on all the math output.

Jenny
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