I have installed
sudo apt-get install default-jre
sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin
following install Java on Ubuntu. I tried this answer after that tried to follow the steps language tool HTTPS server The only difference wrt to the above answer is that I have kept the language tool in my home folder rather than in opt. Trying to run the Language tool server results in
and this is the
Running
curl --data "language=en-US&text=a simple test" http://localhost:8081/v2/check
results in
{"software":{"name":"LanguageTool","version":"5.4",
"buildDate":"2021-06-25 10:24:16 +0000","apiVersion":1,
"premium":false,
"premiumHint": "You might be missing errors only the Premium version can find.
Contact us at support<at>languagetoolplus.com.",
"status":""},"warnings":{"incompleteResults":false},
"language":{"name":"English (US)","code":"en-US",
"detectedLanguage":{"name":"French","code":"fr","confidence":0.815771}},
"matches":[{"message":"This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter.","shortMessage":"",
"replacements":[{"value":"A"}],
"offset":0,"length":1,
"context":{"text":"a simple test","offset":0,"length":1},"sentence":"a simple test",
"type":{"typeName":"Other"},
"rule":{"id":"UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START",
"description":"Checks that a sentence starts with an uppercase letter",
"issueType":"typographical","category":{"id":"CASING","name":"Capitalization"}},
"ignoreForIncompleteSentence":true,"contextForSureMatch"
Similarly going to http://localhost:8082/v2/check?language=en-US&text=my+text
leads to
{"software":{"name":"LanguageTool","version":"5.4",
"buildDate":"2021-06-25 10:24:16 +0000",
"apiVersion":1,"premium":false,
"premiumHint": "You might be missing errors only the Premium version can find. Contact us at support<at>languagetoolplus.com.",
"status":""},"warnings":{"incompleteResults":false},
"language":{"name":"English (US)",
"code":"en-US",
"detectedLanguage":{"name":"English (US)","code":"en-US",
"confidence":0.65618557}},
"matches":[{"message": "This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter.",
"shortMessage":"",
"replacements":[{"value":"My"}],
"offset":0,"length":2,
"context":{"text":"my text","offset":0,"length":2},
"sentence":"my text","type":{"typeName":"Other"},
"rule":{"id":"UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START",
"description":"Checks that a sentence starts with an uppercase letter",
"issueType":"typographical",
"category":{"id":"CASING","name":"Capitalization"}},
"ignoreForIncompleteSentence":true,"contextForSureMatch":-1}]}
Strangely the standalone version of the Language tool works
On typing
java -jar languagetool.jar
in the terminal, we have
My TeX studio settings
And the output of Texstudio> Help> check Language tool is
which java: /usr/bin/java
JAVA: java -version openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.18.04) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.18.04, mixed mode)
Real-time checking is enabled. Grammar checking is enabled.
Tries to start automatically.
LT current status: working
LT-URL: http://localhost:8081/v2/check
