I know this is going to sound like a silly ask, but I am trying to think of something that would reduce friction and not add to it.
I have a wonderful author who is enthusiastic, and loves writing well written articles. My main issue is that he is old school, and uses two spaces between his sentences and needs some other small editorial touches.
Is there an integration that would be like a grammarly or some thing that might highlight, or at least make simple edits for them so I don’t have to go behind and do it myself?
I was going to suggest LanguageTool, but a quick check on mine didn’t pick up sentences that start with a double space. However, it does work well with the Ghost editor (via a browser extension), and it saves my readers suffering my appalling punctuation and dubious spelling.
If you’re concerned about sending stuff into the cloud, you can run LanguageTool locally. I run it on my Mac, and it serves everything on the local network. There are ways to add words to the custom dictionary, and you can create new grammar rules — such as only one space after a full stop — by adding them to grammar_custom.xml (see instructions) which is buried somewhere like /opt/homebrew/opt/languagetool/libexec/org/languagetool/rules/en/en-GB though that will depend upon how it’s installed, and the language you’re working in.
I suspect by ‘integration’ you mean something packaged with Ghost. This type of grammar-checking software is complicated and takes 10-15 Gb of drive space for the n-grams, so it’s probably not practical to add it.
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If the needs are simple i.e. you just want to check grammar for spelling errors, double spaces, incorrect apostrophe, Use Harper. It’s a browser extension, no cloud, everything local and yes, it is open source.
I wrote a detailed review a few days back:
If you want more than simple grammar check, like sentence rewrite, LanguageTool is a good option.
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Thanks @Abhishek_Prakash … hadn’t seen that before, and I use Obsidian for all my writing 
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It is rather new. Comes from a WordPress developer and pretty good.
Obsidian is great tool and with Harper available for Obsidian, you are all set 
Harper finds to spaces between sentences! Thanks!
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But weirdly fails to find sentences with NO spaces before them (at least in Obsidian, yet to test in the Ghost editor, but I suspect it’s the same underlying code).
Probably because of all the dot com domain things. But still, it should raise a flag to double check.
I seem to have the extension installed in Firefox but disabled. I re-enabled it, only to remember why I disabled it, that being that it created an infinite scrollable area at the bottom of the post, disabling me from getting to that HTML card I’d placed at the bottom of the post.
Am I correct in guessing that you don’t have this problem?
Interesting…. I face it in Ghost editor but I didn’t think of relating it to Harper. I blamed it on my recent Ghost update instead. This is indeed an isseu and we should report a bug to the dev.
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Woah, the extension has 304 issues as is.
Otherwise, glad to hear you confirmed the issue (and that you now know why you’ve been experiencing that). Not that I think 6.0 will address the issue, but I’ll write up an issue after Ghost 6.0 is released, sometime tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and I just re-noticed that the extension is made by Automattic. Not that I’m insinuating anything. 
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Thanks @Abhishek_Prakash.
I installed it on my MBP running Sequoia. I’m using Brave. When I try to use it in Ghost, I see this error message:
If you click the power button is it then enabled?
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It’s a decent tool, but there are quite a few false positives. I use Ghost bookmark cards and it continually flags my name as an error. I seems to think that the title of post excerpt is a continuation of the title. Also, it tells me that sentences need to start with capital letters when they already do.
It would be great if users could disable individual rules, such as the faux one about sentence capitalization.
Perhaps create an issue (if one hasn’t been created for it already) and see if there’s traction for your request/idea.
Good idea. Done.
Regards,
Phil Simon
phil@philsimon.com
In the settings, it seems I can turn off that rule:
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