It will not change your text, but will highlight areas that you may want to examine and consider reworking.

The main window is an editable view of your document.

You can load a text document directly into the main text window with the File/Load menu option, or you can cut/paste into the main window from your word processor.

You can navigate with cursor keys or Emacs control keys.

You can save your changes with File/Save or File/SaveAs menu items.

Editomat uses these buttons to highlight issues with your text:

Weak

Highlights words that weaken a sentence.

For instance, your hero should not be slightly upset - he's either upset or he's not.

Repeated

Highlights words that are repeated close to each other.

It's easy to get a word into your head and use it too often.

For instance, He looked at the sky and it looked like rain.

Patterns

Highlights certain patterns. By default, the patterns include ly words (to avoid adverb abuse) and 's, because so many people use the apostrophe on plurals.

You can add your own patterns (perhaps words you tend to mis-spell or mis-use) via the Edit/Preferences dialog.

Long sentences

Highlight sentences that are more than 25 words long. The "too long" parameter can be set in the Edit/Preferences dialog.

Word use

Generates a list of words and the number of times they are used. This can help you clean up adjective abuse. Editomat's thesaurus can help you find synonyms for your overused words.

Shift-Left click over a word in the popup to highlight all occurrences of that word in the text window.

Control-Left click over a word in the popup to highlight and view the next occurrence of that word in the text window.

Double-Left click on a word in the popup to display a list of synonyms.

Alt-Left click on a word to select it and display it in the "Find Synonyms" entry field.

The Find Synonyms button will also display a list of synonyms.

Analyze

Reports several sentence and word oriented tests including the Flesch Kincaid reading level and word connotation usage.

Control-Left click on a word in the connotation list will find and highlight that word.

Constructions

Finds and highlights potential problem constructs like adverb abuse, 'which' clauses without comma separation, awkward clauses and passive voice.

Parts of Speech

Reports the words used grouped by their part of speech - adjectives, adverbs, nouns, etc.

This report helps you find overused words or phrases.

Classes of Words

Reports the words used grouped by their a class of meaning - happy words, sad words, words common to mystery, horror or romance, etc.

This report helps you find overused words or phrases or words that are should be avoided in a specific genre.

Sentence Statistics

Provides statistics on the distribution of sentence lengths, how many complex, compound and simple sentences you've used, etc.

This is useful for avoiding repetitive phrasing and finding awkward sentence constructions.

Comparisons

Compares this work to other works. It displays the distribution of sentence lengths, word usage, and opening words in sentences.

This analysis helps you determine if you are meeting the style expectations of your target audience.

Reload

Reloads the document as it was last saved, discarding all unsaved edits.

Clear Highlights

Bleaches away the highlight stains in the text window. (Clears the highlights.)