Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 7, 2024 17:05 UTC (Thu) by Deleted user 129183 (guest, #129183)
Parent article: Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

You know that your tool is developed by and for computer freaks when its base styles are ‘Microsoft’, ‘Google’ and ‘Red Hat’, but not, let’s say, ‘Chicago’ or ‘Oxford’. Well, at least a good thing is that plain HTML is supported.

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 7, 2024 18:19 UTC (Thu) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link] (2 responses)

> tool is developed by and for computer freaks

Perhaps you wanted to say "software engineers" here, but a mistake crept in?

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 7, 2024 18:49 UTC (Thu) by Heretic_Blacksheep (guest, #169992) [Link] (1 responses)

Nah, he meant "computer freaks". Embrace the freak.

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 9, 2024 17:34 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

I'm guessing intelfx was just trying "vale".

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 7, 2024 20:19 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Hey, anyone who has a need can move the needle on getting those academic research paper citation styles in. :) I think that would be great to see in Vale. Maybe the computer freaks will cross-polinate the approaches across the disciplines?

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 12, 2024 19:51 UTC (Tue) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] (1 responses)

Why is it bad that a tool is designed for a certain use case, like software engineering? Did they turn down your contribution to add support for “Chicago” (whatever that is)?

Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text

Posted Mar 12, 2024 22:19 UTC (Tue) by divanise (subscriber, #71550) [Link]

I read “Chicago” as a reference to the Chicago Manual of Style.