# Readability Score (a-la HemingwayApp)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [1. März 2017 um 10:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159 "2017-03-01T10:27:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@brucellino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brucellino)
#### Post date: [1. März 2017 um 10:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159/1 "2017-03-01T10:27:02Z")
Hidyho discourtesans
Every now and again, I like to post well-written topics. I have an idea or a position I want to express, and I want it to come across clearly, albeit in a way that invites discussions. To do this, I like to use [HemingwayApp](http://www.hemingwayapp.com/), which parses the text and highlights issues with style (not grammar or punctuation).
Leaving aside license or portability issues, I’m going to assume that there is some javascript magic that can be done in Discourse to help improve the quality of the prose. I don’t know, something like [https://www.npmjs.com/package/write-good](https://www.npmjs.com/package/write-good) ?
I’ve done a quick search on this forum to see if anyone else has proposed similar plugins before, but I came up empty. Perhaps this is not widely needed, or is done in some other way ? Enlighten me, please.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [1. März 2017 um 15:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159/2 "2017-03-01T15:41:33Z")
Unlikely to ever be in core but fine as a plugin. Also, HemingwayApp supports Markdown export, so for those rare times when you’re composing long form content for a forum post you can type it up in Hemingway and then export the final thing.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [1. März 2017 um 19:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159/3 "2017-03-01T19:47:40Z")
The general fix is to use your preferred editor to compose posts instead of a \ on a webpage. I use the “It’s All Text” add-on in Firefox to edit things in my preferred editor, `xterm -e vim`
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### Author:  [@brucellino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brucellino)
#### Post date: [2. März 2017 um 15:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/readability-score-a-la-hemingwayapp/58159/4 "2017-03-02T15:47:41Z")
Thanks @erlend_sh and @elijah
I’m satisfied with these suggestions.