writewell

Writewell is a fork of Proofreader

Writewell takes a website, or a local file, and tries to proofread it using write-good and nodehun. Writewell is maintained by Andy Whitlow and Gary Stanyard.

Installation

npm install writewell -g

Examples

writewell -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GoogleChrome/devtools-docs/master/docs/memory-analysis-101.html
writewell -f ../devtools-docs/docs/commandline-api.md
writewell -l list-of-files.txt
writewell -c custom-config.json -f file.html

Output:

• blue suggestions come from write-good
• magenta suggestions come from nodehun

Options

Checkit can handle both HTML and Markdown files. It distinguishes between these two using MIME types.

--url (-u)

Downloads and processes single remote file from given URL.

--file (-f)

Processes single local file from given path.

--file-list (-l)

Processes all sources listed in the provided file. Sample list file:

../docs/file.html
/home/developer/otherfile.md
http://localhost/remote-file.md

--config-file (-c)

Path to a custom configuration file (default one is in settings.json). This file has to be a valid JSON. Sample configuration:

{
  "dictionaries": {
    "build-in": ["en_US", "en_GB"],
    "custom": ["devtools-docs.dic"]
  },
  "selectors": {
    "whitelist": "p, li, h1, h2, h3, h4, th, td, dl, figcaption",
    "blacklist": "pre, code"
  },
  "write-good": {
    "weasel": false
  }
}

• dictionaries
  • build-in - one or two of build in dictionaries (eng_GB, eng_US). E.g. when both American English and British English are allowed, ["en_US", "en_GB"] should be specified.
  • custom - list of custom dictionaries
• selectors
  • whitelist - CSS selector that specifies all elements that should be processed. This also applies to Markdown which is compiled to HTML before processing.
  • blacklist - All elements that match this CSS selector will be removed before proofreading.
  • write-good - Additional settings for write-good (more details here).

Notes

Please note that this project was:

• optimized for Chrome DevTools docs
• optimized for HTML and Markdown
• optimized for English
• by default does not process all the tags, only whitelisted ones (e.g. P, LI, H1, H2, H3)