Comment by twobitshifter

5 years ago

Another older piece of software is the Unix Writer’s Workbench, which legend says put all other grammar checkers to shame. Unfortunately it seems to have been lost to history and I am too young to have used it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_Workbench

Looks like a good floss project to contribute to:

> The GNU operating system contains free software implementations of several wwb utilities, such as spell, style and diction.[9] As of early 2019, the look utility had not yet been ported to GNU, but its implementation from 4.4BSD-Lite is available as free software, for example via Debian.