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I'd certainly contribute a few rules for German prose. Actually, I'm even more interested in using proselint with custom rules for theater plays (e.g., check for unneccessary repetitions, word combinations that are (acoustically) hard to understand).

As czechdeveloper has pointed out in this thread, it would also be nice to have a set of rules specifically for academic writing and/or for non-native speakers (e.g., Asian scientists seem prone to overuse "the").

I guess, a first step would be to have an extensible set of tags for the rules - both language-specifying ones (i.e., any_language, american_english, british_english, german, ...) and genre-specifying ones (any_genre, prose, poetry, academic, technical, ...). Furthermore, an easy way to select a subset of rules by tag (e.g., british_english and academic) would be neccessary.

Would that fit within your goals for proselint?




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