Readability Report

Hi

I have found your extension so helpful I would like to update it for LibreOffice. As you have not done anything with it for while, could I take it on if you are not interested in it anymore?

Best Wishes

Philip Timms

Any chance of ensuring that your wonderful extension is again compatible with Libreoffice? It doesn't seem to work with the latest version 4.3.3.
Best Wishes

Philip Timms

This extension is very outdated. Needs to be updated to be compatible with current version of AOO. Failing that someone needs to create a replacement.

PNI Error. Cannot complete download. I'm using the latest copy of OpenOffice for Mac. I keep getting a Java Runtime error when I try to install. Java settings enabled so there is no reason for this. I'd really love to try this app but with the current version it's not going to happen.

just adding my urgent request to tweak this awesome extension.
Thanks!

This extension needs updating to be compatible with OO v4.0.1 - it is disappointing that this function, which I used frequently, is suddenly not available to me any more.

I now either need to figure out how to roll back to v3.x or switch to MS Word... :-/

This is not working and I need to use readability statistics for my new job. I currently cannot afford Office 365 and my trial is up. Please fix this ASAP!

The Readability extension is not working on OpenOffice 4.0 running on Windows or on Xubuntu. In the code for AOO some changes were made to toolbar libraries and elsewhere. The extension should be tweaked as necessary.

i access internet through library, download to flashdrive for my offline computer running windows xp pro. I installed Latest version of Open Office on my computer. I got this extension- ReadabilityReport. Extension Manager recognizes it in flashdrive but get error message- "The status of this extension is unknown" When I change ".zip" to ".oxt" , the . zip stays at the end of the folder name. and I get same error message. I put the files in a folder named "ReadabilityReport.oxt" , but Extension Manager does not recognize it. The only folder recognized by Extension Manage is the one downloaded to flash drive, but get the error message.
On starting my computer just now, I get the message:
" JRE required Openoffice.org requires a Java runtime environmnet JRE to perform this task. Please install a JRE and restart Openoffice.org"
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you!

Hello, great tool I would like to use but I've got the quite same installation problem with the java loader. Hope this will be fixed.
By the way, as a French user I would be pleased to use the
- Kandel & Moles formula (A Modified Flesch Reading Ease tailored towards french text as Reading Ease = 209 – (0.68 * ( Syllables / Words)) – (1.15 * ( words / Sentences))
- the LIX and/or RIX index ?

Thanks a lot for this job and enhancements,
--frederic

I keep getting this error when attempting to download this extension. I really need this one too. PLEASE help! I am desperate! I am a writer and I am used to using a similar tool with Word documents, although I despise Word. So I love the OpenOffice and everything about it. I had this before, but when I removed the program to download the new one, it removed all my extensions too.

"Could not create Java implementation loader." I have been able to download other extensions, but not this one, which I desperately need.

Thanks guys, you're the best!

Would it be possible to improve the Coherence measure through using a sort of "fuzzy logic", or something to identify relationships between words or ideas? It seems to only look for identical words without context and this seems to give off false positives as well as ignore branching ideas that relate to the subject. I only have a very rudimentary understanding of this so I may be asking for something that doesn't make sense, or if I am asking for something beyond the bounds of how this is supposed to operate. Even with this, the readability extension blows anything else I have seen out of the water.

Hi neiln,

great extension. I used it extensively with OOo -- are there any plans for making it compatible with LibreOffice, please?

Regs,
Z

Everything seems to go great on install until I get the following error -

bad root element in file:///C:/Users/Greg/AppData/Roaming/
OOo-dev/3/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/sv7hc8.tmp/
SimpleTextRecognizer.xcu

when I install or try to enable after installation. I am using Vista with all SP installed
and have had no trouble with any other extensions to date. I would really like to use
this extension as I am a writer/author and was quite excited to see it. Help!!!

Thanks in advance.

Congratulations for such o useful extension!
I'm using Open Office in English and Romanian. Would it be possible to fine tune the extension for Romanian? How could this be done?
Thanks
Valentin

I have problems with this extension in OpenOffice 3.3 on Windows XP - it crashes OO!
I'd had this extension before, probably version 0, there was no version number. I didn't use it really, because there was no toolbar 'Add-On 1'.
When I installed current version 2-beta, I couldn't start Writer at all! I get "runtime error" in soffice.bin. I couldn't remove it, so I deleted files from user folder. That didn't help also. It still remained in configmgr.ini, backenddb.xml and uno_packages.db, which was the biggest problem. I solved it finally by deleting extensions cache.
Now, I restored user profile from backup but I still have this old version. I'd like to remove it, but I can't. Any help?

I'm running the most current version of OO on a Windows 7 platform. No problems with installation or running the extension. I am so happy someone finally wrote this one. I'm a novelist and I regularly have to open manuscripts on another computer so I can check readability in Microsoft Office....makes me a bit of a hypocrite since I'm always singing OO's praises lol.

I also love that it gives you the most 'challenging' sentence in the document. In this case it happened to be one of my favorite sentences so it stays, but it is still good to know!

Thanks to the designers of this fabulously useful extension.

Maryska

Dear nelin and the makers of Readability Report:

I have been searching for a writing assessment utility of some sort that will effectively help bring the functionality of the utility my school currently uses on DOS (yeah, that's right -- DOS!) over to the Windows side of our computers. Rather than overstuff this comment section with background information on my situation, I humbly refer you to my forum post:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=31880

Nearly everyone under the sun in the OOo community that I have discussed this quest with on various mailing lists has referred me to your Readability Report extension. Readability Report seems to be the answer I've been looking for, but as it stands now, it unfortunately does not appear to offer the capability to tabulate all of the output statistics I listed on that forum post that my school needs in order to gauge progress in writing according to IEP objectives. Hence, I am making every effort to contact you to see if there is some way to add the functionality to Readability Report that my school needs. If you need anonymized student samples paired up with the old CritiWriter data I have obtained for testing purposes, just say the word and I would be more than happy to do my part in helping you make this happen.

Thank you for your time.
Jeremy
bbajpy@gmail.com

PS: If what I am looking for is sadly simply not possible via Readability Report, please advise me of any alternatives that there might be for me to consult.

Hello

I successfully installed the extension in the above setting, however when I tried to
analyse a recent article published in the Economist, namely
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16118425

now the surprise was the result:
Brain Overload Report
Brain Overload Score: 6.20 which is rated INTRODUCTORY

Low cohesion occurs when new information is presented to the reader without making clear its connection to what has occurred previously. This score measures how easy your document is to follow.
Cohesion Measure: 1% which is rated CREATIVE

etc

So I am asking which sort of article would receive better result?

Uwe Brauer

Hello

when I try to install the extension I obtain:
com.cun.star.registry.CannotRegisterImplementation.Exeception.Message="",Context={com.sun.star.unoXInterface}

Did anybody have sucess with version 3.2?

thanks

Uwe Brauer

Installed on Ubuntu 9.10 with OpenOffice 3.1.1 and I don't see any buttons or an "Add-On 1" in the View->Toolbars menu. The SmartTags appears to be working, but I can't get to any of the other features. Any suggetions?

Hello

I downloaded and installed the extension (thanks!!). I can see the four buttons in the toolbar but when I click on any of them (no matter if the text is marked or not), nothing happens.
How does it work?

Thanks for any help,
Eos

I am using Open Office 3.1.1 on Mandriva Linux and have added this extension (it is enabled in the extensions manager) but do not see a menu item or button to access the function, i.e., I don't see a 'Readability' option on the menu bar. Do I need to customize or activate something? Thanks in advance - I probably just missed something obvious ...

As a professional writing narrative reports, I used readibility index tools in stand-alone software and with another word processing program.
I found these tools helpful in the past and I'm glad to see they're now available for use with Open Office.
Your next version might include reminders showing the range for "normal" audiences vs more sophisticated readers.
//Don K.

Hi

I really like this and use it all the time - I create leaflets for the public, so getting readability right is crucial for what I do. The only problem I find is that, if I have a bulleted list without a full stop at the end of each line, it reads all the bulleted lines as a single sentence - which can obviously affect sentence length stats etc. Obviously, I could cope with this by putting full stops at the end of each bulleted line, but we don't have this for our final drafts and it can get tedious putting in full stops and taking them out again. It also sometimes seems to read a heading as part of the subsequent sentence. So - if this could be sorted as well as recognising bulleted lines a sentences, my score for this would go up to 5.

Philip Timms

I am delighted that someone has finally created this type of program for OO. I would often use the one in Word and would even copy and paste text from OO to Word to get a quick assessment. RR gives the essential data, However, if you are not familar with each index, RR does not help to interpret the data. I would have given it a higher rating if it would have included more information in the summation report.

The add-on is installed on the main menu and gives your a choice of two reports. The Detailed report was useless from my perspective--too much raw numbers. I would have preferred it in the Tools menu but that is minor. I am going to leave it as an add-on and play with it for awhile.

I don't see a "get it" button or so.