Thank you Jonathan. This point was not clear to me. For this special purpose, I'll keep ms word. <div>Carlo <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Kew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfkthame@googlemail.com">jfkthame@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 26 Sep 2011, at 14:42, Carlo Marmo wrote:<br>
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> Well, I agree common sense and experience should definitely do the job.<br>
> Sometime, in order to meet special requirements, I have to provide the Flesch–Kincaid readability index for each piece of writing I submit to my institution. This provide numeric data that measures how easy it is to read your document. Ms Word has a special readability built-in tool. So I have to convert my output pdf files in .doc to check readability trough ms word. From my point of view, it would be great to have a similar tool for Tw.<br>
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</div>Such a tool doesn't belong as part of TW, in my opinion.<br>
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It would be virtually impossible to implement this in a general way, so that it would work with arbitrary (La|Con|*)TeX(t) documents; any such tool would be designed for a certain limited class of documents (e.g. a specific language, using a particular collection of LaTeX packages and a carefully controlled layout), and would need to be adapted to work under different circumstances.<br>
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If the documents that matter to you follow a sufficiently well-defined form that you can reliably implement something like this, fine: do so as an external tool, and run it from a script if you want to access it from within TW. But it won't be a generic "readability analyser" for TeX documents, it'll be a special-purpose tool for your specific needs, and it doesn't belong in the actual TW product.<br>
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> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:18 PM, BPJ <<a href="mailto:bpj@melroch.se">bpj@melroch.se</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2011-09-26 08:51, Carlo Marmo wrote:<br>
> not sure this is duable or relevant for most of you. what about adding an<br>
> index of readability tool like ms word?<br>
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> Wouldn't that be (human) language-dependent? Or are you talking of<br>
> *graphical* readability? I prefer to use my acquired experience /<br>
> common sense for both kinds (except that philological typesetting<br>
> is rather restricted to a few, fortunately quite good, fonts for<br>
> availability reasons).<br>
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