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>Subject: Re: #5951 Composition software for Spanish & French
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Fatima,

For composition annotation, I'd suggest having a look at Markin 2.1.
There's a review of an earlier version of it on the CALICO website
(http://astro.temple.edu/~jburston/CALICO/review/markin.htm)

Markin is a an inexpensive shareware program ($30) a demo version of which
can be downloaded from the following website:
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/index.htm

The program is highly configurable, but doesn't contain any on-line
dictionaries or grammar checker.  For grammar checking in French, you can
use Antidote, Le Correcteur 101, or the French Proofing Tool in the Windows
version of Word. There's a Spanish grammar checker, called El Correcteur,
but it's not nearly as good as it's French counterpart.  There's also a
Spanish Proofing Tool for Word, but I don't know how good it is.   Hope this
helps.

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Jack Burston, Ph.D.
CALICO Software Review Editor
College of Liberal Arts
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122