Re: Blue square squiggles for grammar checking?

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:15 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Martin Sevior wrote:
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> > Have fun!
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> > See the latest screen shot with the square blue squiggles.
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> > http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/link-abi.png
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> Are the square squiggles optional or have you decided that it is better
> to have a different shape of squiggle?
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> Unless there is a specific reason not to use the colour green I would hope
> Abiword would use green.
> Blue would definately be confusing in a document with lots of hyperlinks.
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Hi Alan,
        At this point I'm happy with square squiggles. The default
colour is green. I set it to blue as a preference in my AbiWord.Profile
just to show it can be done.

I'm actually thinking of alternating squiggle shapes and colours over
the regions of incorrect grammar. ie A sentence with incorrect grammar
often contains valid word sequences, but the combination of these word
sequences don't combine to form a proper sentence. I'm hoping that
highlighting these different regions will help users determine what went
wrong and to correct the mistake.

I'm very much still experimenting right now.

Martin

> - Alan.
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Received on Thu Feb 17 01:55:20 2005