Zettlr: [FEATURE] SpellCheck Grammalecte and Antidote

[qwertygc]

Hello everybody and thinks you for Zettlr, I love this program.

Description

In a lot of word processors (MSOffice Word and LibreOffice), we have the possibility to have advanced grammar checkers. Personally, I use Grammalecte and Antidote. Grammalecte works for French and Antidote for French and English.

Example Workflow

We have different possibilities :

• right-click and in the contextual menu we have options for correct text : select all text and open in Antidote/Grammalecte
• We have a button on the nav bar to select all text and open with Antidote Grammalecte

Caveats

Antidote (and Grammalecte) Need to be installed on the computer.

Additional Information

• Antidote API documentation
• I know that Grammalecte have a CLI Mode...
• I have tried to implant on a webpage Grammalecte and Antidote, it's easy in JS version. I don't know Electron, I don't know if it's also easy to implant.

[nathanlesage]

Are these programs Open Source? This would be a fundamental precondition in order for Zettlr to implement it! But the idea is certainly worth exploring, yes!

[qwertygc]

Grammelecte yes, but antidote no (it's the only not open source software on my computer)

[nathanlesage]

Hmhm, is Grammelecte under development? Open Source does seem to indicate that more languages would be possible, which is a good sign!

Additionally: Are there any potential alternatives? Even node.js-only modules (without a GUI) would be perfect! If you could do some research, this would be awesome!

[qwertygc]

Yes, Grammelecte is under development (and it is active). NodeJS version seems to be.

[jgsw]

LanguageTool might be a better Open Source Grammar checker to target -- it's available for more than 20 languages: see https://languagetool.org/. It's Java, but can run as a server on your computer, with communication with it via http http://wiki.languagetool.org/http-server. There have been some attempts to provide a JS API -- but they look unfinished: see e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/languagetool-api

[nathanlesage]

It's Java

*not coding in Java*

*feels good*

*Looks up Java memes and finds this*

*remains quiet ever after*

[jdittrich]

I like _language tool_, but as it is Java-based, write good (en) and schreib gut (de) might be at least OK alternatives, since they are Javascript based and seem to be relatively easy to extend.

@nathanlesage maybe change the title of this issue to "integrate grammar and stylechecker" or open another issue with that title and forward from this one?

[nathanlesage]

@jdittrich hmm, let's keep this issue right now. Because during the last week I've more and more been thinking about integrating a Unified.js pipeline for Markdown linting, which we should be able to easily extend with features for grammar checking, spellchecking, etc. — the ecosystem already offers a lot of stuff out of the box, so maybe this is a better alternative as it would allow us to keep dependencies minimal (only 1 pre-processor pipeline for a lot of stuff) and also modular

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[balljointedmae]

+1 for language tool, it is java-based but it provides wonderful suggestions. Having LanguageTool support would enable me to switch from Ulysses to Zettler as my primary writing app.

[nathanlesage]

Aaand moved up the ladder

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