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Years ago in Win3.1 I used a word processor (Lotus?) that featured a text
analysis tool. This would analyze your text and produce such things as a
"fog index" that indicated how complicated your text was to read. I found it
useful for forcing me to simplify my writing.

Anyone know of such a beast now?

M
 
Years ago in Win3.1 I used a word processor (Lotus?) that featured a text
analysis tool. This would analyze your text and produce such things as a
"fog index" that indicated how complicated your text was to read. I found it
useful for forcing me to simplify my writing.

Anyone know of such a beast now?
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http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/atarisw/textanal.html

Text Analyser version 1.9.2
Analyse text files for readability

# Download textanal-1.9.2.lzh (35K)
http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/atarisw/archive/textanal-1.9.2.lzh

Text Analyser will read an ASCII text file and display various
statistics. These statistics include total letters, total syllables,
total words, fog index, flesch index etc.

Susan
 
http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/atarisw/textanal.html
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^^^^^ ;-)
Hi Susan,

I don't think M(ike) will be too happy about *that*. But anyway, I also
have only suggestions for a today very seldom used OS: DOS. ;-)

There is Bob Fergusons WC:

http://hello.to/ferguson

And another valuable source of such tools are always Richard Greens
DOS pages. Hm. Where are they *now* available (changes very often)?
Here:

http://cyberside.dyn.ee/freesoft/txtms02.htm

There are several interesting text statistic tools.

BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:
^^^^^ ;-)
Hi Susan,

I don't think M(ike) will be too happy about *that*. But anyway, I also
have only suggestions for a today very seldom used OS: DOS. ;-)
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(blush) I was in too much of a hurry - the link I *wanted* to send
turned out to be dead and I grabbed another one from my notes thinking
it was the same app - came to after I posted. . . :(

the Wayback Machine archived copy:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030814...s.optushome.com.au/quentinc/programs/ti12.zip

The (ahem) :) DOS app on that page can be downloaded here:

ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/utiltext/ti12.zip

The directory has other text apps. Worth a look. . .
There is Bob Fergusons WC:

http://hello.to/ferguson

And another valuable source of such tools are always Richard Greens
DOS pages. Hm. Where are they *now* available (changes very often)?
Here:

http://cyberside.dyn.ee/freesoft/txtms02.htm

There are several interesting text statistic tools.
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Thanks for the links BeAr.

Susan
 
ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/utiltext/ti12.zip

The directory has other text apps. Worth a look. . .
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You are absolutely right! The Slovak Antivirus Center has one of the
best sorted archives of DOS utilities. I prefer it to Simtel, by far.

Btw.: TI12 is a very famous tool from Quentin Christensen and therefore
found in many places. For instance on Richard Greens DOS pages... (I hope
you don't mind my little jests.) ;-)

BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:
(I hope
you don't mind my little jests.) ;-)
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Not in the least! IMO ribbing people when they goof is part of the fun.

and I certainly did goof in that post. . . :)

Susan
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote in
And another valuable source of such tools are always Richard Greens
DOS pages. Hm. Where are they *now* available (changes very often)?
Here:

http://cyberside.dyn.ee/freesoft/txtms02.htm
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<http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/softlib1.htm>

Rich no longer maintains the site, but instead early in 2002 he
released the pages
"under the {CDL (Common Documentation License)}. This reasonably
unrestrictive license allows for the free distribution,
publication, and modification of these pages by anyone (the major
restriction is that derivative works must adhere to the same
license). The entire collection of the Free Software for DOS HTML
pages together with a copy of the CDL can be downloaded as
{FS-FDH.ZIP} (500K)"

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
And another valuable source of such tools are always Richard Greens
DOS pages. Hm. Where are they *now* available (changes very often)?
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[...]
Rich no longer maintains the site, but instead early in 2002 he
released the pages
"under the {CDL (Common Documentation License)}.
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Seems, that I didn't read the mouse print on these pages for quiet
some time... ;-) Thanks a lot for pointing this out!

BeAr
 
did [email protected] said:
Years ago in Win3.1 I used a word processor (Lotus?) that featured a text
analysis tool. This would analyze your text and produce such things as a
"fog index" that indicated how complicated your text was to read. I found it
useful for forcing me to simplify my writing.

Anyone know of such a beast now?

M
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You may also find Wurdz useful - http://adwt.com/wurdz.htm
 
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