MyVale

My collection of style-guide rules to use with Vale while writing.

Installation (Read All the Way Through)

• install vale and confirm via vale -v
• do cd ~/.config/
• cd to ~/.config/ and clone the repo git clone git@github.com:dylan-k/MyVale.git vale. This will creat ~/.config/vale/ directory
• hardlink the config file from the git repository folder to its required location. The hardlink ensures version-control for the file, while keeping it for Vale to use at the default location. (alternately: vale --config='some/file/path/.vale.ini )
  • mac/linux: ln ~/.config/vale/.vale.ini ~/.vale.ini
  • windows: New-Item -ItemType HardLink -Path "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.vale.ini" -Target "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.config\vale\.vale.ini"
• note the value of stylespath in the .vale.ini file and revise as needed

Configuration

• alias in ~/.bash_aliases to edit Vale settings with Sublime Text: alias valestyles="cd ~/.config/vale/ && subl ."

Setup for Visual Studio Code

• Install the Vale extension from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=errata-ai.vale-server
• working windows settings:

  "vale.server.serverURL": "",
  "vale.core.useCLI": true,
  "vale.valeCLI.path": "vale",
  "vale.server.lintContext": -1,
  "vale.server.provideFixes": false,
  "vale.valeCLI.config": "C:\\Users\\dylan\\.vale.ini",
  "vale.valeCLI.minAlertLevel": "suggestion",

• Exclude the settings from VSCode's settings sync, because settings differ across environments.

Updates

Most of these styles come from other sources. Review each style's README file for instructions. The typical method: download the style's GitHub repository and copy its styles directory into styles.

Changes

To change a rule:

• copy the rule's /yml file into the custom directory
• modify the rule as needed
• add the original rule to the ignores list in .vale.ini
• delete the original rule file
• commit/push to git repo

If you change a style's .yml file, turn the rule off in vale.ini file and copy the .yml file to styles/Custom. Otherwise, you run the risk of replacing a deleted rule during an update.

My goal is to merge and winnow the borrowed style sets until my custom set is the only one.

Testing

This is useful for testing a style rule https://vale-studio.errata.ai/

Sources

• https://github.com/testthedocs/vale-styles
• https://github.com/errata-ai/styles

Tasks:

• move these tasks to GitHub issues
• remove redundant rules that occur across styles
• remove contradictory rules
• remove unwanted rules
• combine into one custom style
• make a rule for spelling exceptions
• test readability rules
• hyphen rules
• exclude some rules at start of sentences
• upgrade American-spelling.yml to include the ones I do...

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