Ask HN: Grammar checking Markdown

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What's the best grammar checking tool for people writing prose in Markdown? Ideally I'd want a tool that works both as command line tool and emacs extension. Relying on Word for grammar checking is tedious.

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Nothing specific to Markdown, but all tools that can be integrated into emacs or run from the command line:

Matt Might's "3 shell scripts to improve your writing"[0], which has a "port" to emacs lisp[1]. There's also LanguageTool[2], which can check grammar and has an emacs extension[3].

[0]: http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi...

[1]: http://bnbeckwith.com/code/writegood-mode.html

[2]: https://www.languagetool.org/

[3]: https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool

So I took a look, and I must say that these options are disappointing. The first isn't really about grammar checking at all. LanguageTool seems to have many rules, but browsing them they still seem to be fairly superficial (though I may be wrong on this score). Much as I dislike Word, it clearly has the upper hand.

Thanks for the links! I just meant tools that work on plain text, outside the Office ecosystem. If anyone has experience with the quality of the tools out there, I'd love to hear it, since grammar checkers are notorious for not being very good.

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