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Re: [SLUG] Speaking of document preparation


Thanks, talk about a fast response!

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:50:20PM +1000, Laurie Savage wrote:
> > Has anybody come across a readabily scoring application for Linux? I'm
> > thinking along the lines of the Flesch scoring component of Grammatik or
> > MSWord. There used to be a lot of public domain versions in the world of
> > DOS that were independent of the document preparation package.
>
> Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html.
>
> O'Reilly Net published an article about using these at
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/05/05/LivingLinux.html.
>
> (Note that i didn't just magically have these to hand. The same topic
> came up on the gnome-doc-list a while back -- in June or something.)
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
>

-- 
Laurie Savage
Earth Science @ Orange High School
Orange, NSW, Australia