LanguageTool is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.

You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc.

LanguageTool is also capable of detecting some grammar mistakes. LanguageTool does not include spell checking.

Requirements:

· OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 or later
· Java 5.0 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Breton:
· updated dictionary from Apertium
· several new rules
· corrected and improved style of messages, translated all messages thanks to Fulup Jakez

Chinese:
· several new rules (Tao Lin)

English:
· new Java rule to check if three successive sentences begin with the same word

Esperanto:
· fixed false positives
· updated list of transitive verbs

French:
· updated dictionary to use Dicollecte-4.3
· fixed false positives

German:
· several new rules
· new Java rule to check if three successive sentences begin with the same word
· updated compound splitter component to fix some false alarms on agreement (jwordsplitter 3.3)

Italian:
· several new rules (Paolo Bianchini)

Khmer:
· configuration of Khmer rules should now work in OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice
· small updates for coherency rules und error rules (Nathan Wells)

Russian:
· added multiwords disambiguation rules
· several new rules

Slovenian:
· several new rules (Martin Srebotnjak)

Tagalog:
· new trigram profile
· new rules

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