How to Grammar Check in Affinity Publisher

[Outlandish]

I see Affinity Publisher has a spell check... but how can I grammar check? Is there an App? and Add-on? a plugin? Does "Grammarly" work within Affinity Publisher? Or is there another third party App that can help?

I have searched high and low on these forums, and the tutorials by Serif and Google searches to find the answer but not coming up with much except pasting the text into an external App.

I have a 300 page book divided into 17 chapters i.e. lots of individual text frames, so I'm not really that keen to copy and paste the text somewhere else to grammar check it then paste it back into each frame again. I also don't want to risk piracy or compromising confidential information by pasting the text into an external App that operates on a website somewhere.

I'm on a Mac desktop if that makes any difference.

[walt.farrell]

There is no grammar checking function in Publisher. You will need to do it outside of Publisher in a different application.

[Elise Kleve]

It would be extremely convenient to have Grammarly or Ginger working in Publisher.

[thomaso]

On 7/28/2021 at 12:25 AM, Outlandish said:

how can I grammar check? Is there an App? and Add-on? a plugin? Does "Grammarly" work within Affinity Publisher? Or is there another third party App that can help? (...)

I'm on a Mac desktop if that makes any difference.

One possible workaround in macOS for English grammar check:

1. Export .afpub as .pdf
2. Open PDF in the PDF-viewer "Podofyllin.app" https://eclecticlight.co/tag/podofyllin/   (free, 18 MB)
3. Export text as .txt
4. Open in a grammar checker tool, e.g. "TextLint-OneClick.app" http://scg.unibe.ch/research/textlint   (free, 60 MB)

[DVS]

Probably beating a dead horse, but I would also like to see Grammarly work within Publisher.

[kamiC]

Yes please! Make Grammarly work with Publisher. It is needed.

[JosueVivas]

My two cents.

 

Dear Serif team, having spell check is good, but tone and writing style like Grammarly, is a LEAP vs what Affinity Publisher can do: there is no comparison, specially when English is your second language. There is a reason why Grammarly is commercially viable: becasue people need it and spell check doesn't make the cut.

 

Can you, please, integrate Grammarly?

 

[R C-R]

Just curious but how many languages does Grammarly support? How would it work in a multi-language document? Is it strictly cloud based (so it requires an internet connection) or is there a self-contained downloadable version that would work if internet access is slow or unavailable?

[JosueVivas]

They only support English.

You can have local app installed, but the magic happens in their servers in the cloud.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, JosueVivas said:

They only support English.

You can have local app installed, but the magic happens in their servers in the cloud.

So from that I gather it would not be possible to build it into APub such that it would work without an internet connection, & there is no way it could be integrated with Affinity's multi-language support for spell checking, for grammar checking, etc.

[Ian Eiloart]

Hmm, agreed, lack of grammar checking is pretty poor. MacOS has spell/grammar check frameworks. Why not use them?