[raphman]

Are there any plans to support rules for texts written in other languages (e.g., German)? Would a set of such rules fit within the scope of this project or is proselint purposely or inherently limited to English prose? (@suchow)

[suchow]

It's out of scope for now, but only because we don't have any native speakers of other languages helping us out with the project, and this stuff is hard enough to get write in your native tongue; otherwise it's on the table. Interested?

[raphman]

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?

[Singletoned]

> this stuff is hard enough to get write in your native tongue

Was that deliberate?

[Tepix]

"get write" is an error proselint could easily catch.