Missing dictionary about dale-chall-formula

[wooorm]

Yup, and the dictionary is listed in the readme as well :)

See dale-chall for a list of words which count as “familiar”.

Does that help?

Oh, and I suggest using parse-english for properly counting words / sentences!

[localjo]

Sweet! Thanks for the tips Titus! Sorry I missed that link to the dictionary in the readme. Thanks so much for all your work on these projects!

[wooorm]

Oh no problem at all, and thank you! Hope you make something cool with ’em :)

[localjo]

Planning on it. 😎 By the way, what's the difference between retext and alex?

[wooorm]

Great! alex is an example implementation of retext, with two plugins (retext-equality, retext-profanitities), and it also uses remark if you pass in markdown so it can ignore the syntax, does that sound logical?

[localjo]

Yep! To use retext with plugins of my choice, it sounds like I should start by requiring retext in my project. Thanks!

[wooorm]

Indeed. Have you also seen retext-readability? It combines this formula with some others to get reliable age levels, might be useful

[localjo]

Yeah, retext-readability is definitely the core of what I'm looking for at the moment. What's unified? Should I be using that directly? Or retext? Seems like Alex uses unified directly.

[localjo]

Sorry if this long thread of questions is in the wrong place. 🙈

[wooorm]

So retext, remark, and rehype are implementations of unified, but more importantly they’re ecosystems, and the actual packages with those names don’t need to be used to use the “umbrellas” themselves. A cool thing is that they can be combined, so you can transform from markdown to HTML, and meanwhile extract just the text content and pass that to retext plug-ins.

As alex doesn’t do anything with compilation, it uses the retext-english parser, and the remark-parse parser, that way, the project does not include stuff it doesn’t need.

If you’re not compiling, or if you want to use multiple systems together, I suggest using unified directly, but it’s a bit more advanced.

I think the best place to talk about this is the Gitter channel?!