Appendix B. LanguageTool plugin
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## Appendix B. LanguageTool plugin

## 1. Introduction

LanguageTool is an Open Source style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, and a lot of other languages - see the list of supported languages (http://www.languagetool.org/languages/).

You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking. LanguageTool will find errors for which a rule has been defined in its language-specific configuration files.

Figure B.1. The LanguageTool in OmegaT

## 2. Installation and Use

The LanguageTool plugin for OmegaT can be downloaded from the OmegaT plugins download site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat-plugins/files/). Unzip the files, and put them all in the "plugins" folder located in OmegaT installation folder, that is the folder that contains the OmegaT.jar. Create the "plugins" folder first, if it does not exist.

Once installed, the plugin will be used automatically by OmegaT, if Options > Language Checker is checked. The rules applied (if any) will depend on the source and target language of the project. When a rule is triggered, the corresponding phrase will be underlined in blue in the Editor (see also and I didn't do nothing in the picture above). When hovering the mouse over the underlined phrase, an explanation will appear.

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