Tools used by people who prepare documents for translation

[anabastos]

This issue is different from the issue focused on tools for people who reflect. Your goal is to people who prepare documents for translators.

For example: code formatting, automating tasks such as the use of continuous integration, etc.

[fititnt]

I opened two issues about this topic on w3c/html.

w3c/html#633

w3c/html#634

[fititnt]

From w3c/html#310 (comment)

fititnt commented 5 minutes ago
An advantage of English over other languages is that it is much easier to find tools to evaluate this type of improvement.

I suggest the following:

• Atom Editor plugin: https://github.com/gepoch/linter-write-good
• Shell: http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
• Perl: https://github.com/devd/Academic-Writing-Check
• NodeJS: https://www.npmjs.com/package/write-good#passive

See output:

$ write-good semantics-embedded-content.include 

In semantics-embedded-content.include
=============
e in HTML, when there is only a single image resource,
                         ^^^^
"only" can weaken meaning on line 9 at column 43
-------------
  However, there are a number of situations for which the author might wish to u
  ^^^^^^^
"However" is wordy or unneeded on line 21 at column 2
(...)

Check https://gist.github.com/fititnt/b34f531ed42470412e6fa371e7e7830a for rest of output