# How the Guardian improved Typerighter, its style-guide checking tool

DevFeed: [How the Guardian improved Typerighter, its style-guide checking tool](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-typerighter-work-harder-19958.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/dec/11/making-typerighter-work-harder-engineering-blog>)

Author: Rhys Mills

Published: 2023-12-11T15:12:52Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

Topics: [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [Content Management System](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cms.md>), [Composer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/composer.md>), [Scala](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scala.md>), [Web app](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webapp.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [XML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xml.md>)

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## AI overview

The Guardian describes improvements to Typerighter, a style-guide checking tool integrated with its Composer content management system. The system uses curated regular expressions and XML-based LanguageTool rules to identify potential spelling and grammar problems, and the article explains why expanding its use was important for live blogs.

## Source excerpt

How we improved Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker, to provide more value for the Guardian and its readers Minimising typos is important to a newspaper. Publishing messy prose might undermine trust in our overall quality control - why trust our political reporting if we can't spell Thérèse Coffey's name? We want to provide accurate information, and typos can mutate meaning - a single letter can transform a fiend to a friend and a bowl to a bowel. Worse, a missing word can turn a holy text into a wicked one. The Guardian is in the business of words, and we're keen to avoid "idiosyncratic" spelling decisions. That's why we built Typerighter, a tool that offers recommendations from our style guide into our content management system - Composer - and highlights errors well before the articles get in front of our readers. Continue reading...