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GRAMMAR CHECKER modified by George B. Zamroz A while back, a grammar checker was posted on the net that was written under Ultramacros. A grammar checker is useful in any form of writing, and one written as macros is also good practice when learning to write macros of your own. Unfortunately, the grammar checker was difficult to read, and had a far few bugs in it. Therefore, I undertook the task of enchancing of grammar checker until I was happy with it's operation. I firstly reformatted the entire macro set so that it was easier to read. I then went about fixing the bugs and otherwise improving the code. By the time I was finished with this, I found I had a few hundred bytes left in the macro table, and so I added a few extra messages in order to give some feedback during the process of checking. There is still a fair bit of space left which I may make use of when I think of something appropriate. One change I made was to combine all the individual macros within each macro set into single a macro. This saved a lot of space, and drastically reduced the amount of macros defined. A side affect of this is that you can't simply blank out a colon to disable a particular check, but you need to do is simply copy the check you don't want after the ">!" of the macro. Move it back inside the macro to reactivate it again. Tha grammar checker will relaunch your default macros when you exit, so make sure that the second macro in your default set is something fairly harmless since it gets executed whenever a task file is launched. Also, on my particular setup, it leaves the desktop menu on the screen. This seems to be a problem with the launch command of Ultramacros, but could be realted to my particular setup, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. I have also included a copy of the original documentation for those that missed it the first time. Any comments can be e-mailed to me at the address below. Net: g8247032@cs.uow.edu.au