Main Page:
Before entering the text, the screen looks like this:
Paste your text into the small editor on the top right of the
program's screen (marked below in red). On the program it says, 'Paste
your text in the editor below'.
The editor looks like this:
After pasting your text, click on the Normalize Text button, shown
below:
(It is highlighted). Or you can click on the main menu, Actions, and
choose Normalize Text. You do this to remove unwanted characters, which
confuse the program, from
the text. These are normally full stops in abbreviations and in
numbers.
They confuse the program, making it think it has found a sentence.
Clicking the button, or choosing the menu item normalizing the text for
processing. It is important to click this button before computing the
readability indexes, but it isn't automatic (at the moment) because the
program wants to show you exactly what it is doing. (On occasions you
might choose to edit the text further.)
The
'Compute Readability' button is highlighted above. Click this button
and wait (a short or longer time) for the program to process the text.
Or click on Actions, Compute Readability instead of clicking on the
tool button.
The Results: The Indexes
Look in the area of the lower right-hand side of the screen. Below the
area is indicated by the red square:
A below the measures are shown below:
