--- Forwarded Message from Dr Jack Burston <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) >Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:27:07 -0500 >Subject: Re: #5951 Composition software for Spanish & French >From: Dr Jack Burston <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ 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. ---------- Jack Burston, Ph.D. CALICO Software Review Editor College of Liberal Arts Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122