ltex-ls VS kotlin4example

ltex-ls is huge. I have following setup in Neovim which works excellent. (I use Neovim only as scratchpad)

Hi, folks! There is great language server that provides spell checking for markdown and LTeX files using language tool called ltex-ls. By default there is no ability to use code code actions like Add to dictionary, Hide false positive, and Disable rule in NeoVim since those handlers should be implemented on the client side. So I created a simple plugin to add handlers to those actions and load already saved information on initialization of the server. I had no time to extensively test it yet, but it seems working for me just fine.

I am currently using https://github.com/valentjn/ltex-ls and it is a decent step up.

Nice! I have longed for a rust implementation of ltex-ls.

You can use ltex-ls with an LSP client. It looks like FOSS.

I didn't know about LTEX. It seems like a good option! I will try and the do a comparison of the two. LTeX uses MPL-2.0 license. Which is usually prefered by LaTeX users over Grammarly' proprietary software. How is the CPU usage with LTeX and how has been your experience with it?

Story time: I really love Neovim for programming, but one thing I love it even more for is scientific writing. Tools like texlab make this especially fun! But for a well-rounded experience, I need a few more things: (i) Grammar checking. For that I can recommend ltex, an LSP-server which adds LaTeX support to language tool. (ii) Thesaurus lookup. (Neo)vims integrated thesaurus format is a little bit limited. But thankfully 'thesaurusfunc' exists so I could easily write a small plugin to add support for openoffice.org mythes thesauri. (iii) Machine translation. Now we're finally getting to the topic of this post. I write most of my stuff in English but I'm not a native speaker, so machine translation is valuable for me. It can help me to overcome writers block to an extent, for example. There already exist a few plugins for that problem, like vim-translator or translate.nvim. But none of these support interactive modes, a slick UI, and, as far as I know, useful things like motions and counts. This is where my plugin pantran.nvim comes into place! The demo should speak for itself. In the end it was a lot more effort than I anticipated but I'm very pleased with the result. I hope this can be useful to others as well!

This tool seems like it is a nice markdown based CMS but I don't see too many features related to the more difficult parts of doing technical documentation. Like having working code samples.

I attempted a Kotlin centric documentation framework a while ago to address this: https://github.com/jillesvangurp/kotlin4example

I mainly use it to generate the documentation for my Elasticsearch Kotlin Client (jillesvangurp/es-kotlin-client). The idea there is that all examples and source samples are correctly compiling Kotlin code that I can get the output of when they run (e.g. a println). Running the tests, actually generates the documentation markdown. Using a dsl and multiline strings, I can mix lambda code blocks, markdown, or markdown inside files. For the lambda blocks, it figures out the source and line numbers using reflection. But it can also grab source samples based on comment markers. For bigger blobs of markdown, it's easier to grab the content from markdown files. For smaller sections of markdown, I can use inline multi line strings or a Kotlin DSL.

The main benefit of this is that my examples update as I change and refactor the code base. Also, since it runs as part of my tests, I know when examples break.