LanguageTool Change Log

1.0.0 (2009-11-01)

 -translation fixes, especially for Danish
 
 -small GUI fix: making port field larger
 
 -fixed false alarm for Polish

 -small rule fix for Russian


1.0.0-rc1 (2009-10-25)

 -Support for Danish, thanks for Esben Aaberg

 -Support for Catalan, thanks to Ricard Roca

 -Support for Galician, thanks to Susana Sotelo Docio
 
 -Corrections to Spanish dictionary (conversion from Freeling)
  and a new rule for Spanish that checks if the determiner 
  (if any) preceding a feminine noun is "el", thanks to Susana Sotelo
  Docio. 
  
 -Small corrections to Swedish dictionary, thanks to Niklas Johansson and
  corrections to Dutch dictionaries, thanks to Ruud Bars; small corrections
  to the French dictionary
  
 -Added more features for the server-side LanguageTool, including setting 
  some parameters.

 -Added missing support for New Zealand and South African English.

 -More Dutch, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovenian, and English rules
 
 -Enabled general rules in the Slovenian module 
 
 -Fixes for the Italian, Russian, French, and Polish rules
 
 -Fixed sourceforge bugs: #2819925 for English, #2879819, #2883277, #2882789,
  #2884642, #2880448, and #2885488 for French, #2848079 for Polish, and 
  #2886208 for Spanish.
  For details, see
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=110216&atid=655717&aid=<ID>
  
 -The simple replacement rule (designed originally only for Ukrainian)
  can be used now with any language to find simple, non-context dependent
  typos. Implemented now for Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, and Polish.
 
 -Added SRX-based sentence tokenizers for: Slovenian (thanks to Petra
  Galuscakova), Icelandic (thanks to Anton Karl Ingason), Slovenian 
  (thanks to Martin Srebotnjak), and Russian (thanks to Yakov Reztsov).
  
 -Added new Slovak tagger and synthesizer dictionaries (thanks
  to Zdenko Podobný and Slovak National Corpus)
  
 -Added Russian synthesizer dictionary and new rules based using it. 
  
 -Added Russian disambiguator.
 
 -Change from DTD to XML schema for rule files.

 -Slight enhancement for testing XML files on the command line.
  Slight improvement of word tokenization.
  
 -Update of the Italian tagger dictionary (Morph-it! 0.48)
 
 -Update of the decompounding component for German (jWordSplitter 3.0)
 
 -Update to segment library, removed loomchild-util library that 
  is no longer needed.
  
 -Update to morfologik-stemming library, resulting in some 
  tagging speedup. Tagger & synthesizer code cleanup.
  
 -Fixed a small bug that could result in unpredictable behavior 
  in rules using match elements inside tokens.
 
 -Fixed a bug with counting column positions (sf bug #2878819).
  
 -Fixed a bug in unification.
 
 -Fixed a bug with matching elements that have POS tag information
  and whitespace attributes. Fixed a bug with losing whitespace info
  from AnalyzedTokenReadings when copying them. 


0.9.9 (2009-05-22)

 -Added preliminary support for Icelandic thanks to Anton
  Karl Ingason

 -More English, Dutch, Polish and Romanian grammar rules. 
  More English/Polish false friends. Improvements to Russian
  rules.
 
 -Fixed some bugs with pairing brackets. Now the rule also 
  complains about balanced parentheses put in the wrong 
  order (like ")abc("), or overlapped with other symbols (like
  'his "mother'") and in all places the symbols weren't 
  found to be balanced.

 -Added sentence tokenizer that uses SRX format for 
  specifying end-of-sentence breaks (for specification, see  
  http://www.lisa.org/fileadmin/standards/srx20.html). This 
  enhanced the quality and speed of sentence tokenization
  (for example, tokenizing the whole Brown corpus in the old
  tokenizer took 572613ms, while it takes 125971ms right now).
  Currently, English, Polish, Romanian and Dutch are using
  SRX segmentation rules.
  
 -Added Dutch (Belgium) as a country variant to support it
  in OpenOffice.org.

 -Updated Russian translation (Yakov Reztsov) 

 -Updated Slovenian translation and added more rules
  for this language (Martin Srebotnjak)
 
 -Updated Slovak translation and added Slovak sentence 
  tokenizer (Zdenko Podobný) .
 
 -Fixed a NullPointerException that could appear when using
  paragraph-level rules (SF bug # 2787814), removed bugs that lead to false positives 
  in some English rules. Some code cleanup.
  
 -Fixed a bug that truncated the suggested replacements for false
  friends.
 
 -Fixed encoding problem for some systems (SF bug #2794857), thanks
  to Petr Mladek. 
 
0.9.8 (2009-04-25)

 -Much more new rules, rule-based disambiguator and synthesiser for
  Romanian (thanks to Ionuț Păduraru)
  
 -New rules for Italian and translation of messages into Italian 
  by Paolo Bianchini
 
 -Initial support for Slovak, including new rules by Zdenko Podobný 

 -Translation of messages into Slovak by Zdenko Podobný

 -Small fixes and additions for Polish and English. Small dictionary
  update for English.

 -Now sentences written in different languages in OpenOffice.org 
  are recognized as such and checked properly (previously it was
  assumed that the whole paragraph has always the same language). 

 -New mode of operation on command-line: you can apply suggestions
  automatically by supplying "--apply" switch (or "-a" for short).
  LanguageTool will then output a text with suggestions applied,
  while suppressing all other text (you can, however, still get
  verbose output on STDERR). This way LanguageTool may be used to 
  automatically edit a text (to clean a corpus before some other
  operations, for example).  Note: only the first suggestion is 
  applied in the automatic mode, so make sure that the first
  suggestion is the best one. 

 -The command-line tool works now with STDIN. STDIN is activated
  anytime a filename is not specified or if you specified "-"
  explicitly.
 
 -Update of morfologik-stemming library to version 1.1.4
  fixes a NullPointerException (sf bug #2613574) and some
  problems with UTF-8 dictionaries.
  
 -Now it's possible to test disambiguation XML rules in a similar
  manner that error-matching rules are tested. Look in English 
  disambiguation rules for examples (at the end of the file).
  
 -Taggers recognize now mistyped lowercase words that should be 
  uppercase.
 
 -Fixed a bug that disallowed using rules that were turned off by
  default.
 
 -Added more tests and fixed some position errors in the XML rules and
  disambiguation rules.

 -Fixed some glitches with line numbers, time statistics and
  match numbers, and unknown words when checking large files 
  on the command line. Fixed a bug with case conversion in rules
  that contained element <match> in suggestions and numerical 
  references such as \1 in the message.

 
0.9.7 (2009-03-03)

 -Small updates to Polish disambiguation rules, German
  error rules, and English dictionary

 -Updates for Dutch error rules 
 
 -Fixed bugs in Russian rules (Sourceforge bug #2545548 and #2545525),
  thanks to Yakov.
  
 -Preliminary support for Romanian (thanks to Ionuţ Păduraru) 
 
 -Fixed a ClassCastException crash that occurred with non-English
  texts that contain soft-hyphens.
  
 -Fixed bug with no errors visible in context menu for some languages
  in OpenOffice.org, for example French. 
 
0.9.6 (2009-01-21)

 -Support for new Proofreading API in OpenOffice 3.0.1. The
  non-native dialog box used for checking the text in LT was
  removed as it duplicated the native function and was buggy
  (see for example sf bug #1943695).
   
 -The toolbar button became redundant and was removed. A new 
  menu command "Recheck document" was added to start a new check 
  and reset the rules set as ignored during the previous check 
  (the rules disabled in the configuration dialog are not 
  enabled on recheck).   

 -Added possibility to specify feature unification (introduced
  in XML files but the implemented mechanism is general). 

 -Added new features to the rule disambiguator, such as unification,
  filtering, deleting and adding interpretations. Fixed some 
  small bugs.

 -Added a tagger dictionary for Russian (thanks to Yakov).

 -Added compounds rule for English and Polish, and made the
  existing compound rule easily extensible for new languages.

 -Added possibility to add shorter comments for rules to be 
  displayed in OpenOffice.org 3.x context menus. 

 -New command-line option -t or --taggeronly can be used to 
  tag a text file with POS tags and lemmas as seen by LanguageTool.
  This means that you can use LanguageTool as a standalone
  tagger for testing or for building a corpus. 

 -The rule that checks for whitespace surrounding punctuation 
  marks now detects an orphaned full stop as requested by OOo
  users (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93931). 

 -Added a possibility to check if there is a whitespace before a
  token in XML rules (simply specify attribute spacebefore="yes";
  possible values are also "no" and "ignore". "ignore" is the 
  default.)

 -Added new English, Dutch, Polish and Russian rules. Fixed false 
  alarms for many English rules (including 'a vs. an' rule) based 
  on the community.languagetool.org user votes and sourceforge.net 
  tracker reports (#2319686, #2319670, #2381522). Fixed false 
  alarms for many Dutch (thanks to R.J. Baars) and Polish rules.
   
 -Massive corrections and additions to the English tagger lexicon. Added 
  a lot of new disambiguation rules for English.
 
 -Massive corrections to the Dutch tagger and synthesizer lexicon (thanks
  to R.J. Baars).
  
 -Corrections to the Polish tagger and synthesizer lexicon. Added 
  rule-based disambiguator for Polish.

 -The scripts testrules.bat and testrules.sh are now also testing
  the validity of XML files, including false friends, rules and
  disambiguator rules.
 
 -Fixed problems with uppercase sentence start rule with lists for Russian
  and Polish (thanks to Yakov Reztsov).
 
 -Fixed a bug in synthesizer suggestions generated for indeterminate 
  articles before compound words (such as 'all-inclusive').
  
 -Fixed a bug that could cause errors in XML error/disambiguation rule 
  matching.
  
 -Fixed a bug that could cripple case conversion of tokens matched in 
  suggestions formatted with regular expressions.
  
 -Fixed a bug that resulted from missing synchronization of code used
  for doing actual grammar-check in OpenOffice.org (see sf bugs #2416655,
  #2411768, #2379365).
  
 -Fixed other small bugs (rule numbering in text output; archaic words
  offered in some English suggestions; ignoring some exceptions that  
  were set for preceding tokens; incorrect positions of errors on some
  tagged punctuation tokens; incorrect formatting of some synthesized 
  suggestions; ignoring manual hyphenation marks during checking in 
  OpenOffice.org; not printing unknown words on command-line). 

0.9.5 (2008-11-02)
 
 -Fixed a bug in whitespace rule that caused LT to crash
  OpenOffice.org with English text.
 
 -Fixed a bug that caused some languages to be wrongly
  tagged in Turkish Unicode locale (reported by Serkan Kaba). 
 
 -Updated, fixed and added some Polish rules.
 
 -Updated and added some English rules.
 
 -Fixes to the German tagger and its compounds splitting
  algorithm which could cause false alarms.
  
 -Added full support for various Unicode whitespace
  characters and tabs as word separators for English.
  
 -Small fixes with a missing icon in the Extensions Manager
  in OpenOffice.org and formatting of comments visible in the
  context menu.
 
 -Fixes in Polish sentence tokenizer that allow some abbreviations
  and symbols at the end of sentences.
  
 -Fixed sentence tokenizer: the footnote at the end of the sentence 
  caused LT not to break the sentence at all.

0.9.4 (2008-09-30)

 -Fixed freezing on startup with OpenOffice.org 3.0.
  
 -Updated Swedish rules, added false friends, and
  fixed the compounds rule (thanks to Niklas Johansson).
  
 -Updated French dictionary, disambiguation rules
  and grammar rules (thanks to Camille Moulin). 
  
 -Added abbreviations for Russian sentence tokenizer and 
  Russian compound rule. Updated Russian rules (thanks 
  to Yakov Reztsov). 
  
 -LanguageTool button in OpenOffice.org is now placed next to
  the "Spelling and Grammar" button.
  
 -It is now possible to turn the whole category of rules
  by default off (in the XML file).
  

0.9.3 (2008-08-06)

 -Works with OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta m26 or later.
  LanguageTool.jar needed to be removed from classpath.
  Added support for the new grammar checking API (displays 
  blue wavy lines for errors automatically, a context 
  menu with suggestions, rechecks document when options 
  changed...). With the new API, it is possible to check
  documents with multiple languages. When using the blue
  wavy lines, all known previous bugs with OpenOffice.org
  were solved; note that OpenOffice.org 3.0 "Spell and Grammar 
  Check" dialog is *not* completely implemented yet. 
  Sometimes you need to use our slightly buggy dialog instead 
  (progress dialog is always on top to solve focus problems).
 
 -Added full support for various Unicode whitespace
  characters as word separators (including typographic
  space characters).

 -Added support for Russian (thanks to Yakov Reztsov).

 -Fixed the bug that caused that "&" was shown in buttons,  
  and not interpreted as shortcut.  
  
 -Fixed menu and toolbar icon which were broken 
  during compilation (black square or empty).
  
 -Fixed a small bug with formatting some case-sensitive
  suggestions.

 -Added a generic rule that detects redundant whitespace.

 -Added Dutch synthesizer for making suggestions based
  on part-of-speech changes.
  
 -Added a rule-based disambiguator for English to minimize
  false alarms.
  
 -New Dutch, English (dealing with agreement and redundancy), 
  Polish and Swedish rules. Added more false friends. Removed 
  some false alarms.
 
 -The German tagger now splits compounds words correctly which
  avoids several mistaggings and thus false alarms.
  
 -Added new Swedish tagger for more complex rules, thanks to 
  Niklas Johansson.

 -The command line client now prints a number after the
  rule id so you can see which of the rules in a rule group
  it refers to, for example:
  "2.) Line 1, column 43, Rule ID: MUEHLHEIM_A_D_RUHR[1]"

0.9.2 (2008-02-17)

 -LanguageTool is now part of the "Tools" menu in
  OpenOffice.org and its toolbar button is docked to
  standard toolbar by default.
  
 -LanuageTool's OpenOffice.org configuration is now saved
  in the user's home directory.

 -Added preliminary support for Swedish (thanks to Niklas 
  Johansson).

 -More false friends, especially Polish-English, and 
  generalization of existing false friend rules for English 
  and German.

 -Added possibility to display a false friend list as
  a dictionary formatted in HTML (rules/print-ff.xsl).

 -Added an attribute to the DTD so XML rules and groups 
  of rules can be disabled by default by specifying 
  default="off". Java rules can be set as turned off by
  default by using setDefaultOff() method.
  Both settings can be overriden in the Options dialog
  box.

 -Added possibility to set hot keys for UI items in 
  translation. Corrected French translation (thanks to 
  Hugo Voisard).

 -Fixed bug in OOo extension that caused that false friend 
  rules did not display in the configuration dialog.

 -Added the possibility to disable complete rule groups 
  (categories) in the GUI.

 -Fixed some Polish rules. Added more Dutch rules and several
  hundred more French rules.

 -XML rules: added possibility to refer to matched tokens' 
  POS in <match> elements inside <token>. This is useful
  for defining agreement without combinatorial explosion.

 -OOo extension will be distributed in .oxt format that 
  allows automatic updates.

 -Internal change: updated tagger library and streamlined
  some tagger code.

0.9.1 (2007-09-17)

 -Fixed a bug with the resource paths that was discovered
  in OpenOffice.org 2.3 and that made it impossible to use
  LanguageTool with OpenOffice.org 2.3.

 -XML rules: enabled referring to whole phrases in suggestions, and 
  changing their POS tags appropriately. Added support for attribute
  scope="previous" in exceptions.
   
 -Fixed error marking problems for XML rules that use phrases
  and skipping.

 -Added and tweaked some Polish and English rules.

 -Fixed problems with badly written XML rules that used skipping.
 
 -LanguageTool now requires Java 6.0 to be compiled, but it
  still runs with Java 5.0.
 
 -The icon in the system tray now offers a menu when clicking 
  the right mouse button (Java 6.0 only).
 
 -Several people had problems with the LanguageTool dialog
  appearing in the background (when using LanguageTool inside
  OpenOffice.org). A workaround has been added that tries
  to fix this problem.
 
 -The embedded webserver can now work with UTF-8. Input must
  now always be in UTF-8 (or 7-Bit ASCII, as that is a subset of 
  UTF-8).

 -Fixed bug (#1726044 in sf.net tracking system) concerning the 
  Italian tagger dictionary that resulted in a badly formatted 
  dictionary file.

 -The stand-alone LanguageTool can now load an XML rule file using
  the new menu item "Add language...". This way people can write 
  rules and use without touching any Java code and without the need
  for the rule file to be distributed with LanguageTool.
  Currently, the file must be named in the format "rules-xx-name.xml",
  where "xx" is the two-character language code and "name" is the full
  name of the language in English. Example: rules-en-English.xml
  TODO: needs more polishing: i18n, store and load configuration, add 
  the same to OOo
 
0.9 (2007-05-20)

 -It's possible to edit rules using XML Mind XML Editor (xxe) in a 
  WYSYWIM (what you see is what you mean) mode. Simply open the file
  in xxe, and it should display in a form input mode. It is recommended
  that you uncheck Options > Preferences > Save > Add open lines. Set 
  a high value in Max line length.

 -Now you can simply open rule files (rules/<language>/grammar.xml) with
  Firefox to see examples of errors and descriptions of rules in a 
  human-readable format.
 
 -A lot of new French rules by Agnes Souque (mostly grammar errors) and 
  Hugo Voisard (mostly stylistic errors).
 
 -Everyone can now develop, modify, and test grammar rules without requiring
  the LanguageTool source code. Just call this command, it will run all
  tests in all grammar.xml files (tests are the sentences in the
  <example>...</example> tags). If you work in Linux, type:
  sh testrules.sh
  In Windows command line, type:
  testrules.bat
 
 -German compound nouns are now split so that also compound words 
  which are not in the dictionary are recognized. This way more 
  agreement errors can be detected, e.g. "die Donaudampfschiff".
  The dictionary for jWordSplitter was created using the new class
  ExportGermanNouns.

 -New option -u or --list-unknown for the command line version: lists
  all words that are not known, i.e., words without POS information.
  This currently also lists words written with an uppercase first
  letter unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence.
   
 -Added support for variables in XML pattern rules and disambiguation
  rules; it is now possible to refer to previously matched tokens using 
  <match> element.
 
 -Added support for logical AND operation for combining tokens
  in error pattern and disambiguation rules (XML-based). In other 
  words, all possible logical combinations are now available in 
  the rule declaration.
	
 -Added support for XML-based rule disambiguation of POS tags 
  (based on an idea by Agnes Souque).
 
 -Added support for regular expressions and POS tags to
  create complex suggestions (for example, suggesting another
  grammatical case or a word without an apostrophe). Suggestions
  based on selecting POS tags require a special synthesis dictionary,
  compiled for the language. Currently, two such dictionaries are 
  available: for English and Polish.
 
 -Added initial support for Slovenian (Martin Srebotnjak)
 
 -Fixed and refined some faulty suggestions for Polish, English, and 
  Spanish rules.
 
 -Added special POS tag value "UNKNOWN" that matches any token without
  any part of speech token. Useful for matching proper names 
  or misspelled words that are not in the dictionary.
 
 -The tray icon should now also work on the Mac.
 
 -Added option to test suggested replacements in internal quality
  tests.
 
 -Refined and added more Polish and English rules with new suggestion
  features.
 
 -Fixed bug with saving preference for mother tongue (for false 
  friend checking) in the stand-alone GUI and OOo extension.
 
 -Fixed bug for users that have Windows username with special 
  characters; OpenOffice.org extension can now read its files 
  correctly.
  
 -Internal change: changed source directory structure; now files
  are accessed based on the classpath and not file structure 
  (more portable way).
 
0.8.9 (2007-04-07)

 -Security: The embedded webserver didn't escape HTML when an error
  message was returned which led to the possibility to inject
  Javascript via cross site scripting (thanks to "sumit")
 
 -A lot of new Polish rules
 
 -Improved German rules to give less false alarms

 -Improved English rules

 -Added initial support for Czech (by Jozef Licko)

 -Added initial support for Ukrainian (by Andriy Rysin)

 -Make OpenOffice.org integration work with NeoOffice (by Ray Hazlip) 

 -Added disambiguator interface used to filter POS tags (by Jozef Licko)

 -Enabled use of much more compact dictionaries for languages with 
  heavy use of infixes or prefixes (mostly Slavic languages).

 -Fixed a bug with suggestions for some rules that match correlated 
  words in the sentence, and a bug with matching in some of them.
 
 -New UnpairedQuotesBracketsRule (for pairing (), [], {}, „”, »«, 
  depending on the language); works on a paragraph-level. Additionally,
  new mechanisms for paragraph- and text-level rules were introduced.
 
 -New French punctuation rule for inserting a non-breakable
  space before '!', '?', ':', and ';' and after or before 
  French quotation marks ('«' and '»').
  
 -Fixed crash when started in an unsupported locale
 
 -Added support for declaring phrases (or chunks) in rules,
  which allows reusing same structures in various rules. This 
  could be thought of as simplified chunking.

 -The command line version (LanguageTool.jar) can now be started
  from any directory. In previous versions, you had to be in the
  LanguageTool installation directory to start it.
 
 -Internal change: rules are loaded dynamically to make adding
  a new language easier in the future (patch by Andriy Rysin)
 
0.8.8 (2007-01-30)

 -XML output of HTTP interface changed for compatibility with
  An Gramadoir (http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/), see 
  resource/api-output.dtd for the new format. Fixed some encoding
  problems with the HTTP response.
  
 -Added --api option to Main method so the XML output can be tested 
  on the command line.
 
 -Improved English, Dutch and Polish rules
 
 -Fixed several false alarms in German agreement rule (e.g., for "Dies liegt 
  aller Kommunikation zugrunde." and "Der Vorgang, der soziale Akteure 
  miteinander verknüpft.")
  
 -Improved German coherency rule, e.g. using "Ketchups" and "Ketschups"
  in one document will lead to an error

 -German part-of-speech information can now be added to resource/de/added.txt

 -Slightly improved suggestions of German compound rule, e.g., "x mal"
  will suggest "x-mal", not "xmal"

 -Fixed false alarm in German "wieder vs. wider" rule
 
 -Command line version now stops with error message if unknown options 
  are used
 
0.8.7 (2006-12-31)

 -Extended and improved English, Polish, and Dutch rules
 
 -Added some Lithuanian rules (Thanks to Mantas Kriaučiūnas)
 
 -Improved UppercaseSentenceStartRule for sentences that start with a 
  quote character
  
 -Bugfix: Small fixes for German compound rule (e.g., "New Yorker" and
  "New-Yorker" are both okay)
 
 -Bugfix: Don't crash but show error if LanguageTool is used with Java <= 1.4
  inside OpenOffice.org
 
 -Bugfix: LanguageTool stopped with a MissingResourceException when started 
  in a locale that's not supported (e.g., fr_CA = French, Canada)

 -Added French translation of the GUI (Thanks to Hugo Voisard)
 
0.8.6 (2006-12-17)

 -Added support for Dutch (Thanks to Ruud J. Baars)

 -Added initial support for Lithuanian (no XML rules yet)

 -Error rules slightly improved for English, German, and Polish
 
 -Small improvements to the sentence tokenizer
 
 -Command line version and stand-alone version now print suggested fixes
 
 -New rule for German that complains about the spelling of compound words
  that are written as separate words, e.g., for "System Administrator"
  LanguageTool suggests "System-Administrator" and "Systemadministrator".
  See resource/de/compounds.txt for a list of words that this rule detects.
 
 -OpenOffice.org integration:
    -fixed that some errors messages (e.g., Language not supported) could freeze 
     the OpenOffice.org GUI
    -the "server mode" configuration is now only available in a stand-alone 
     mode, as it doesn't make sense inside OpenOffice.org
    -configuration dialog is now mostly translated
    -error marking corrected for documents that contain index markers
    -improved icon
  
 -Stand-alone GUI:
    -improved tray icon
    -added shortcuts for its menu items
    -new menu item "Check Text in Clipboard"
    -will now hide itself to the system tray when
     clicking the window close button when started in system tray mode
     (with -t or --tray). Use "Quit" from the menu to exit the program 
     completely.
    -user interface is now mostly translated
 
 -Debugging output (-v) of German texts has been improved, it now shows the 
  part-of-speech tags as they are used during rule matching
 
0.8.5 (2006-10-30)

 -Fixed small bugs connected with special HTML characters used 
  internally and entities encoding
 
 -OpenOffice.org integration: documents > 64K can now be checked
  WARNING: There's still a problem with documents that contain tables,
  the wrong part of the text will be selected.

 -OpenOffice.org integration: progress dialog now really shows the progress

 -Introduced new POS tags for uncountable nouns (NN:U) and for nouns
  that can be used as uncountable (NN:UN). Added most common proper names
  to the English tagger dictionary.
  
 -LanguageTool can now run as a server that returns its results
  in a simple XML format via HTTP. Activate the server using
  "File -> Options..." or start it via command line using
  java -cp jaminid.jar:LanguageTool.jar de.danielnaber.languagetool.server.HTTPServer
 
 -By default, a single linebreak is not supposed to be a paragraph
  delimiter anymore (this was introduced in 0.8.4). With the command
  line application, you can use the new option -b to make LanguageTool
  take single linebreaks as paragraphs delimiters again. Two consecutive
  linebreaks are always considered a paragraph boundary (and thus a
  sentence boundary).
 
 -Added initial French, Spanish and Italian support
 
 -Added new rules for English and Polish
 
0.8.4 (2006-08-20)
 
 -Added several new rules for English, German, and Polish
 
 -The false friend rules now offer a possible correction

 -Stand-alone GUI: the program can now be docked to the system tray.
  Selecting any text and clicking on the icon in the system tray pops up
  the main window and checks the selected text. You need to unzip
  standalone-libs.zip for this feature to work (this was necessary so
  OpenOffice.org, which works on the same ZIP, doesn't get confused).

 -Stand-alone GUI: now stores its configuration to a file ".languagetool.cfg"
  in the user's home directory. Still buggy, as it only stores the configuration
  for one text language.
 
 -OpenOffice.org integration: cursor doesn't jump to start anymore before it
  selects the error

 -OpenOffice.org integration: LanguageTool's suggestions can now be accepted
  using a double click
  
 -A single line break in texts will now be interpreted as the end of a 
  paragraph thus also as the end of a sentence.
 
 -Reduced size of LanguageTool by using a more compact
  part-of-speech tagger
 
 -Changed DTD to support more XML-like rule encoding, added categories
 
 -Extended exception matching to multiple tokens, added more flexible ways 
  to match variable word order languages (via skipping tokens in rules)
 
 -Added lemmatization support, regular expression support
 
 -Added AnalyzedTokenReadings class to support multiple readings 
  in all taggers, changed the code appropriately

 -Some API changes
 
0.8.3 (2006-06-25)

 -Requires Java 1.5 now
 
 -Support for Polish (Marcin Milkowski)
 
 -Fixed a NullPointerException in DoublePunctuationRule
 
 -Added information to the README about how to compile LanguageTool for 
  .NET using IKVM
 
 -OpenOffice.org: The selection of the potentially incorrect text was wrong
  after paragraphs (on Windows only)
 
0.8.2 (2006-02-26)

 -New menu entry "Configuration..."
 
 -If you're a native speaker of German and write a text in English, LanguageTool
  can now warn you if you're using a "false friend", i.e., an English word that sounds
  like a German word but has a different meaning (e.g., become <-> bekommen).
  This also works vice versa (i.e., English native speakers will get a warning
  when writing a German text using a false friend).
 
 -Added a few new pattern rules
 
 -Missing whitespace after a comma is now detected

 -Added a new German rule that detects missing agreement in e.g.,
  "meine Auto" (correct: "mein Auto"). This also introduces some new 
  false alarms.
 
 -Errors for German text are now displayed in German
 
 -Several other small fixes

 -Only relevant for developers: changes to rules.dtd (affect "lang" attribute)
 
 -Only relevant for developers: XML validation doesn't happen at runtime
  anymore but only when "ant test" is called
  
0.8.1 (2005-12-22)

 -Made it work for cases where the add-on installation path contains
  spaces (often seems to be the case under Windows)
 
 -Added a few rules for English

 -Added more exceptions so the English "a vs. an" rule works better
 
 -Other small fixes
 
0.8 (2005-12-17)

 -Added OpenOffice.org integration. Install the LanguageTool ZIP via 
  Tools -> Package Manager -> Add..., re-start OpenOffice.org and you'll 
  have a new menu item "LanguageTool" which checks your text.

 -The German data is now more compact (but still 40MB when uncompressed)
  and it's included in the standard distribution

 -Fixed morphology data for a few German words
 
 -Added some new simple pattern rules for English and German

 -Switched to new English part-of-speech data and new version of
  part-of-speech tagger (OpenNLP-tools 1.3)
  
 -Files are called LanguageTool instead of JLanguageTool again
  as the Java version is the only maintained version anyway

0.7.2 (2005-11-21)

 -several new pattern rules for typical German and English typos

 -new rule that checks for ".." and ",,"
 
 -new CaseRule for German text: complains if non-nouns are written
  in uppercase and checks uppercase spelling of "substantivierte Verben",
  e.g., "Das Laufen fällt mir leicht."

 -extension of pattern synatx: DT^foo|bar will match words tagged
  as "DT", except the word is "foo" or "bar"

 -fixed several false alarms (i.e., rules matching text which is
  actually correct)
 
 -fixed error marking for matches of pattern rules
 
 -fixed morphology data for these German words: Papagei, Virus, Stasi
 
0.7.1 (2005-09-08)

 -Rules can now be enabled/disabled in GUI

 -the error displayed to the user is now taken from the "message"
  element, not from the "name" attribute anymore

 -implemented mark_from and mark_to attributes, these can
  be used to expand/shrink the area of text that is marked
  as wrong. Both attributes default to 0 so that the text
  marked as wrong is exactly the one that matches the pattern.

 -back references like \1 can now be used in error messages
  to refer to the parts of the original text that is matched
  by the pattern

 -a few German noun phrases like "der große Mann" are now checked
  for agreement. For example, "des großer Mannes" is detected
  as incorrect. This requires data in rules/de/categories which needs
  to be downloaded separately.
  
 -a new rule checks whether a sentence starts with an uppercase letter
 
0.7 (2005-08-15)

 -first release of Java rewrite