Daniel Berger

Aspell vs Word 2010

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Published on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 21:25

Written by Daniel Berger

Due to my inherent spelling and grammar troubles I Just tried to spell check my thesis: first with aspell and then (as some form of comparison) with Word 2010 on University servers.

[For Word I first used a detex export, then a compiled version and pdftotext which both really didn't work but ...]

Here are some impressions:

• aspell is integrated well into emacs and perfectly works together with latex (TikZ,...)
• Word 2010 detects that I am writting AE automatically - that's nice
• Word 2010 only found four additional errors
  • two because it pointed me to a specific passage where the Word export seemed a bit messy (and it was indeed); not actually the fault of the spell checker
  • second two were labelled=>labeled, modelled=>modeled (which are very specific AE idioms, I guess)
• Word 2010 grammar check did not do any magic nor find any error
  • it tried, though
  • e.g.: "the bound on burst sizes which is stated in..." => "sizes which are"

Overall, Word 2010 did not show me any major improvements neither in spell checking, grammar, nor false positives (I admit: it got that lemmata instead of lemmas thing right). Hence, I guess the next time I will just stay with good old aspell and let it be like that.

Anybody else with a different experience?

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