Writing Supervisor Regex Thingy

[CodaCoder]

Thanks for posting that, @Scott_Sauyet. Damned useful! Here’s how my Writing Supervisor addresses it:

I see I have quite some work to do yet!

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[Scott_Sauyet]

@CodaCoder

Damned useful! Here’s how my Writing Supervisor addresses it:

Oh, well it did catch a mistake in my text, too. “After all ‘discretion is the better part of valor’ were good words to live by,” should have a comma after “after all”; after all, after all is said and done, it is followed by a quotation. .

I am only posting these to demonstrate that it’s a hard problem, especially if there’s no semantic analysis. I guess if it inspires people to improve their tools, that’s a good thing!

Is your Writing Supervisor something public?

[CodaCoder]

@Scott_Sauyet

I am only posting these to demonstrate that it’s a hard problem

Certainly is, but it’s a lot of fun, too.

@Scott_Sauyet

I guess if it inspires people to improve their tools, that’s a good thing!

Certainly is!

@Scott_Sauyet

Is your Writing Supervisor something public?

Certainly isn’t.

It’s all part of TiddlyBook which, one day, will be published – but I’m a long, l-o–n—g way from doing that. You’re welcome to the regex if it appeals to you. But even that’s a mountain of pain to maintain.

[JanJo]

@CodaCoder

Damned useful! Here’s how my Writing Supervisor addresses it:

I’m also very Curious: what is your Writing Supervisor?

[CodaCoder]

@JanJo

I’m also very Curious: what is your Writing Supervisor?

It’s 4.5 megatonnes of regex and a set of search macros that runs the regexes against live tiddlers offering “advice” when it finds matches. For example:

• if I type something,stupid, it highlights the text and tells me there is no space following the comma
• if I type something like this.. it tells me it found dot-dot

In Scott’s text, as you can see, it’s overly zealous. For my writings, it works fine. What I really need is a way to relax a rule (or rules) on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, which would make it work more like a linter. But, you know, no time

[Springer]

@CodaCoder

It’s 4.5 megatonnes of regex and a set of search macros that runs the regexes against live tiddlers offering “advice” when it finds matches.

I’d be very curious about this package.

Funny thing, in some ways your approach seems redundant against all the high-end writing-check tools out there (grammarly, Word’s inline proofreading tools), but these are now way too pushy with their LLM-based “corrections” … So a more nuts-and-bolts pattern check may be just the thing to add to my interface for students to check their typed text for those low-level glitches.

[CodaCoder]

You said it.   

[Springer]

I could see adding such a tool to my writing coach site.

[CodaCoder]

I can parcel up the relevant tiddlers but I’m sure the task of aligning them outside of my code will not be trivial (or quick).

[TiddlyTitch]

@Springer

I could see adding such a tool to my writing coach site

Mama Mia! That is a fascinating wiki …

TT

[TiddlyTitch]

@CodaCoder

Here’s how my Writing Supervisor addresses it:

I see I have quite some work to do

Looks great already

TT