Hi, just a heads-up: we’ll move the code of the LibreOffice add-on to its own repo. It can now be found at https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-for-libreoffice. The code will be removed from https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool soon. All git history should be kept intact.
Update: see here for more background information
Hello everyone,
In recent years I have actually mainly developed the LibreOffice extension from LanguageTool on my own.
There is now an alternative in LibreOffice to have the grammar check carried out via the LanguageTool server. In this respect, I can understand the team’s decision to no longer officially support the extension.
Nevertheless, I believe that it still makes sense for everyone who writes longer texts to use the extension for the following reasons:
What’s next?
I will now continue the application under the name WritingTool (WT) based on LanguageTool.
You can find it here: GitHub - FredKruse/writingtool: WritingTool for libreOffice based on LanguageTool
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have an infrastructure to, for example, automatically create OXT files with the latest changes in LT and WT every day. I’m thinking about how I could set up and operate one.
Furthermore, I’m also now cut off from the mechanisms for internationalization. I would appreciate it if people could be found to help me translate the relevant files. (I’m only able to maintain English and German.)
It would be nice if all of you who have used the extension so far would continue to use it under the new name (WT), test errors and give suggestions.
The latest development will be to support (local) AI and thus provide another option for finding errors and editing text passages. However, this is still at a very early stage, and I am testing it primarily for German texts. Here, too, I am still looking for people who would like to support the project with testing and suggestions.
Es ist schade zu sehen, dass es zu dieser Entscheidung kam. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass es immer ruhiger wurde, aber dass fast nur noch eine Person an der Erweiterung für LO und OO beteiligt ist, ist mir zunächst gar nicht aufgefallen. Ich dachte immer, dass mehrere Personen im Hintergrund arbeiten, aber anscheinend ist dies nicht der Fall gewesen.
Ich werde weiterhin die Offline-Version vom LanguageTool nutzen, weil ich auch unabhängig vom Internet sein möchte und ich bin bereit diese mit Tags zu füttern. Zudem werde ich Fehlalarme und co weiterhin melden, um den Nachfolger zu helfen.
Trotzdem hätte ich eine Frage. Was passiert mit den Fehler, die ausschließlich mit Add-on betreffen, werden diese geschlossen oder noch behoben? Das würde mich interessieren.
Grüße Dallun511
Hallo,
die LibreOffice-Erweiterung von LanguageTool wird von mir weiterentwickelt.
Da sie jetzt nicht mehr ein offizieller Bestandteil von LanguageTool ist, habe ich sie in WritingTool umbenannt. Sie basiert im Kern weiterhin auf LanguageTool und es gibt jede Nacht ein Snapshot, der auch die aktuellen Entwicklungen von LanguageTool enthält.
Die Snapshots findest du unter: Index of /writingtool/snapshots
Die offizielle Seite von WritingTool findest du unter: https://fk-es.de/ (Bisher erst im Aufbau und nur in Englisch, eine deutsche Variante ist geplant)
Das Software-Repository ist hier: GitHub - FredKruse/writingtool: WritingTool for libreOffice based on LanguageTool
Probleme, Anregungen, Wünsche können hier geäußert werden (in Englisch und Deutsch): Issues · FredKruse/writingtool · GitHub
Hello,
I am continuing to develop the LibreOffice extension of LanguageTool.
As it is no longer an official part of LanguageTool, I have renamed it WritingTool. It is still based on LanguageTool at its core and there is a snapshot every night that also contains the latest developments in LanguageTool.
You can find the snapshots at: Index of /writingtool/snapshots
You can find the official WritingTool site at: https://fk-es.de/ (currently still under construction)
The software repository is here: GitHub - FredKruse/writingtool: WritingTool for libreOffice based on LanguageTool
Problems, suggestions, requests can be expressed here: Issues · FredKruse/writingtool · GitHub
Thank you very much, Fred, for the explanations of the differences between the LibreOffice extension and the LanguageTool server version, and that you are continuing to develop the extension. I will continue using the LibreOffice extension, as I frequently use Writer on long texts and require offline functionality, and thus will upgrade to WritingTool.
Will you update the LibreOffice extension entry on LanguageTool » Extensions or do you plan to create a separate entry? (given the many bad ratings there, maybe a new start makes sense).
I posted two error messages of the LibreOffice extension here in the forum. Did you see my posting here, shall I transfer it to GitHub? Two errors in LanguageTool 6.4 on LibreOffice 24.2, Ubuntu 24.04
I plan to release the extension under the new name WritingTool.
Could you please report the bugs as issues here: Issues · FredKruse/writingtool · GitHub
The snapshot directory has changed. It now supports HTTPS and is now located here: Index of /writingtool/snapshots
Thank you very much. I now use the WritingTool snapshots. If I notice an issue with it, I will report it in the Github repository (so far, I didn’t get any error message with WritingTool).
Fehlalarme, fehlende Regel, fehlende Tags und was noch kommen mag. Sollte ich das für das LanguageTool und/ oder den kommenden Nachfolger für LO und OO melden?
Grüße Dallun511
Wenn ich @Fred.Kruse richtig verstanden habe, dann ist das neue Repository für die LibreOffice extension, die den LanguageTool Code täglich importiert. Das hieße, dass alle Fehler, Abstürze, Verlangsamungen der Extension im neuen Repo zu melden sind und sprachliche Fehlalarme, fehlende Regeln, fehlende Tags in LanguageTool direkt.
The repository and documentation for WritingTool has changed again.
All information about the application is now available at: https://writingtool.org
The download page for snapshots is here: https://writingtool.org/writingtool/snapshots/
The download page for releases is here: https://writingtool.org/writingtool/releases/
The repository for WritingTool is now here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool
Errors and minor extension requests can be reported here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool/issues
Discussions and further suggestions (forum) can be discussed together here: https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool/discussions
404 Fehler bei den Githubslinks.
Das war ein Problem mit den Nutzerrechten. Es sollte nun gelöst sein. Könntest du einmal testen, ob der Link jetzt funktioniert?
Where do we do localization work for this project?
So far, no special translation tool is used for the project.
If you want to translate the interface of the dialogs, you can clone the entire source code:
git clone https://github.com/writingtool-org/writingtool.git
The file MessagesBundle_en.properties can be found in the directory src/main/resources/org/writingtool/en.
Translate the file into your language and rename the translated file to MessagesBundle_language_abbreviation.properties.
Create a directory with your language_abbreviation under
src/main/resources/org/writingtool.
Create a pull request
We had translations for LO extension in LT, I hope many of them would be the same, would it be possible to transfer those to writingtool?
I could not find a quick way to find old translations but I am hoping there’s a way.
Die Links funktionieren.
They got removed with this commit, see the other commits of that day for the other files.
Thanks everybody, I was able to download the OXT extension and after I expanded it I got MessagesBundle_uk.properties that has pretty much all strings for LO extension.
Now I just need to filter the relevant strings and submit.