---
name: "gr"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gramadoir"
version: "0.4-2"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gr"
---

# gr(1)

Grammar and Style checker for Irish

## NAME

gr - Grammar and Style checker for Irish

## SYNOPSIS

**gr** \[*options*\] files

## DESCRIPTION

*gr* is a front-end script for  **gramadoir ,** a grammar and style checker for  ish. *gr* is intended to be used as a "filter" program similar to "grep", "sed", etc. Simply, it reads standard input or named files and writes the gramatical errors to standard output.\

## COMMON OPTIONS

- **--litriu**

  Write all of the unknown/misspelled words to standard output.

- **--aschur=FILE**

  Write output to FILE

- **--aspell**

  Make suggestions for correcting mispellings (requires that **GNU aspell** be installed).

- **--iomlan**

  Report all errors  (do not use the file  )

- **--teanga=XX**

  Specifiy the two-letter ISO-639-1 code for the language of the text to be checked. The default is  (Irish).

- **--ionchod=ENC**

  Specify the character encoding of the input text. The default depends on the language; Irish uses ISO-8859-1\
    (do not use the file "~./neamhshuim")

- **--teanga=XX**

   Specifiy the two-letter ISO-639-1 code for the language of the\
    text to be checked. The default is "ga" (Irish).

- **--ionchod==ENC**

   Specify the character encoding of the input text. The default depends\
    on the language; Irish uses ISO-8859-1

- **--help**

  Display some help and exit.

- **--version**

  Display version and copyright information and exit.

## DEVELOPER OPTIONS

For details on how to use these options effectively, please also consult the web page http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/

- **--api**

  Output errors in a simple XML format for use with other applications

- **--brill**

  Find candidate disambiguation rules using Brill's unsupervised learning algorithm.

- **--html**

  Produce HTML output which should resemble the output of the vanilla "gr" when viewed in a web browser. This option is used in the Web interface.

- **--ilchiall**

  Generate a report consisting of all (part of speech) ambiguities remaining after two passes through the disambiguation module, sorted by frequency.

- **--minic**

  List all part of speech tags appearing in the file, sorted by frequency. This output can be used for the "unigram-xx.txt" file.

- **--no-unigram**

  Do not perform the "last resort" part f speech disambiguation according to tag frequency.

- **--xml**

  Write the intermediate tagged XML stream to standard output; useful for debugging.

## FILES

- $HOME/.neamhshuim

  Contains words that should be disregarded while checking spelling and grammar. This is a plain text file containing one word per line.

## SEE ALSO

Further details of  **gramadoir** may be found at **http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/**

## AUTHORS

An Gramadoir was originally written by Kevin P. Scannell.\
 On Debian systems, a full list of contributors may be found at **/usr/share/doc/gramadoir/copyright**\
 This manual page was written for Debian by Alastair McKinstry, but may be included under the GNU GPL on any system.