i.t.i.p. is happy to announce that the new version of our cutting-edge plug-in Readabilities 2.0 has been tested and approved for use within the K4 editorial system, developed by vjoon GmbH.
Schoolbook publishers, magazine and newspaper publishers — literally everyone who publishes text for a specific reader group — needs to ensure that their text matches the educational level of their intended reader group. This means especially that text should be not “too difficult”, but not “too easy” as well.
In order to accomplish this, i.e. to analyze and categorize text, scientists have developed a variety of methods and algorithms, each based on measurable text properties: the used vocabulary, sentence length and complexity, average number of syllables, just to mention a few of them. Therefore, applying these methods is a time-consuming and partly cumbersome task, if you need to do it with external software or maybe even by hand.
With the Readabilities, it’s just one click with your mouse.
And here are your key benefits using the “Readabilities” plug-in:
– You analyze any kind and portion of English or Spanish text with just one click with up to 10 different methods.
– The results are automatically saved and stored with the document, and, if you work within a K4 environment, in the K4 database as well.
– For your quality assurance, you can routinely and automatically analyze your text in order to ensure that you publish the right text for the right reader group.
– You save an enormous amount of time, because authors and editors can monitor the text’s readability level at any time from the very first word on.
– You use only acknowledged scientific methods to determine the readability level.
– You just work within your familiar software, InCopyCS3 or InDesignCS3.
“Readabilities 2.0” is available, at the moment, for InCopyCS3 and InDesignCS3 on both platforms MAC and Windows. It is available as a single-seat version (“Readabilities”) and as a K4 version. For all additional information and sources of supply, please visit our website.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on June 16, 2009
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