[gameprogrammer] Re: Gamasutra Article Rough Draft (Long) - Test Transmission for Text Modification

Ray Gomez-Bravo wrote:

>> What tools do you use to get these numbers  ? Word ?
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>Yes.  I am currently on Word 2002 (MSOFFICE XP PRO).  To get readability
>statistics you can select the Tools menu and the Options pop-up dialog.
>In the Spelling & Grammar tab, the Grammar group (bottom of dialog)
>check the 'Show readability statistics'.  Then in the 'Setting...'
>button pop-up, you can set the rules you want checked.  Then whenever
>you force a spelling and grammar check, you get a guided tour of
>suggestions to your writing.  At the end of the check you get the
>readability statistics.  After a while, the option become irritating
>because you begin to know what it is going to say, but it helps to keep
>it turned on.
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>I have an old copy of WordPerfect.  It was my processor of choice, but
>industry kept asking for Word documents.  WordPerfect use to do spelling
>and grammar checking.  I believe there are versions that run on Linux.
>I have not used those.  I don't often use my Linux machine.
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>Also, there use to be (I don't know about now) stand-alone grammar
>checkers.  The last one I used many-many-years ago was Grammatik.  It
>was one of the first.  I think, but I don't know, that it might have
>been absorbed by Microsoft and stuck into MSOffice.
>
>Checking this document for spelling and grammar, (Word is also my email
>editor) it says my last phrase 'might have been absorbed by Microsoft
>and stuck into MSOffice' is in passive voice and suggests that I
>consider revising.
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>Rgb
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>The response above, including the question contains
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>255   words
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>1181  characters
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>6     paragraphs
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>21    sentences
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>4.2   sentences per paragraph
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>12.0  words per sentence (approaching long)
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>4.4   characters per word
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>4%    passive sentences
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>63.9  Flesch reading ease
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>7.3   Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (too high)
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