Re: Grammar Checking

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Robert Staudinger wrote:

> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:07:22 +0200
> From: Robert Staudinger <robsta@stereolyzer.net>
> To: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
> Cc: s.zeidel@utoronto.ca, abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Grammar Checking
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:13, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >> The second phase would be to grammar checking on the fly with green
> > >> squiggles under text ala MS Word.
> > >
> > > This is a non-issue at this point, but please do not use green
> > > squiggles. This makes the grammar checker very hard to use for
> > > color-blind people like me and it doesn't conform to the GNOME HIG.
> > >
> >
> > I was actaully wondering about the color-blindness issue. What would be a
> > better colour? Blue? Purple?

blue (or purple) would probably look too confusingly similar to
hyperlinks.

> The HIG says that information should not be carried by colour only.

Combinding colour with a texture usually works, but not in this case
unfortunately.

Would black squiggles be clear enough or would they blend in with the
text too much?

the easiest thing to do would be to make the colour configurable somehow.

> A first suggestion would be to draw squiggles all around around the
> phrase in question, not just underline. There might be better ways
> though.

Grammar effects whole sentences, so it might be possible to provide an
indication that there is a mistake on the line by putting an indicator in
the margin (I'm thinking like a spot or an arrow, I'm vaguely thinking of
the debugger in Microsoft Visual studio), invoking the grammar tool would
then provide you with more information.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
http://advogato.org/proj/OpenClipArt.org/
Received on Thu Sep 2 20:29:32 2004