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Very interesting! Just the other day I've tried proselint for the first time, and became annoyed that I'd have to hack something together to only have it lint o
by mhitza 3y ago
Very interesting! Just the other day I've tried proselint for the first time, and became annoyed that I'd have to hack something together to only have it lint over the text in my markdown file. It doesn't ignore code blocks, as it just supports text, as is not aware of any file format.
Vale seems to do this out of the box, which is great, but the suggestion I get, while better than nothing, are still very rudimentary compared to Grammarly[1] (which I haven't used for at least a year at this point).
For example, I've enabled all styles. The alex and write-good ones gave actionable suggestions. Readability however had suggestions of the form "Try to keep the Automated Readability Index (8.83) below 8.", "Try to keep the SMOG grade (11.35) below 10.", "Try to keep the Coleman–Liau Index grade (9.57) below 9". If I knew what that was maybe I could improve my score. Is there another FLOSS tool that can turn those in actionable steps?
[1] And LanguageTool, even if sometimes advertised by FLOSS folk as a Grammarly alternative, it really isn't. Every time I try it, I feel disappointed. Has anyone tried their premium option to see if it's better?
- skydhash 3y agoI have the premium option and it’s nice. I use it primarily as a spellchecking tool. And it sometimes detect when I use the wrong style (English is my third language).