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Where is the Flesch Reading ease and Reading grade index?
Posted: 2006-05-22 23:38:42
by sarah
I want to be able to use this feature and cannot find it.
Posted: 2006-05-23 10:31:00
by martin
Currently we don't have this feature in Express, sorry.
Posted: 2006-06-01 09:57:56
by Tacitus
Sarah,
If you really, really need this and don't mind spending the money, you may find that Grammatica or Grammarian will do this for you. Not sure about SpellCatcher - I think that just does spelling.
cheers,
Tacitus
Posted: 2006-06-05 12:28:35
by cstross
If you don't fancy paying money, the free diction command (originally part of the AT&T Documenter's Workbench which was part of UNIX way back in the 1970s then sort of drifted off into a limbo of its own) wil calculate these statistics for any text file.
Alas, Apple don't seem to have bundled the diction kit (and the two programs, dict and style) as part of OS/X's BSD-derived UNIX command line tools. Nor has the fink project (fink.sourceforge.net) packaged them for distribution -- they're a bit of a minority interest these days. However, the GNU project created a free clone of them, and if you're familiar with compiling and running UNIX commands you can install them on your system. They're available from:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/diction/
When I get time I'll look into (a) turning them into a pkg file and (b) writing a perl macro that'll filter the copy of the NWE clipboard through style(1).