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New favourite VS Code extension: LTeX (marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName) Checks spelling and grammar in markdown files. But if you turn on the “enable picky rules” setting it also highlights passive voice and clunky sentences for you 💯 Essential for anyone writing essays in markdown

VS Code screenshot of text showing a hint that a sentence has three nouns in a row

VS Code screenshot of text showing a hint that a sentence is written in passive voice

7:54 AM · Mar 29, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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@Mappletons

my staples are either writing two of the same word accidentally or omitting one due to messy refactoring. I really need this 🫠

We all have our favourites. I’ve been trying to avoid passive voice for a decade and my first drafts are still full of inactive subject-less sentences. “The words have been said”

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Thanks. I've been using marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName so far. Will check LTex.

marketplace.visualstudio.com

Grammarly - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - A grammar checking for Visual Studio Code using Grammarly.

James

@atomiksdev

Mar 29

thanks for the link! after trying LTeX it gave tons of false positives and didn't catch two grammatical errors. this one also gives a lot of false positives but seems a bit better, and caught one of the errors LTeX failed to. also it works with MDX grammar 😁

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Thank you for this. Also, what theme is that?

Palenight Italic 😍

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And people like me who write a lot of docs in MD. Been looking to fix my current workflow using Grammarly and adding `contenteditable` through dev-tools :P Thanks for sharing!