> Speaking of dictionaries, are there any (English preferably) subject > specific dictionaries? One of my friends studying old english would > kill for a spell checker, a spellchecker that actually understood > Computer Jargon, or a medical spellchecker, or slang. Being able to add > a particular and specific lexicon would mean i would not need to have > such a vast custom dictionary (and i would not keep having to add terms > like Netscape, Abiword, Gnu, Javascript and others to a huge and > inefficient custom dictionary). This is more about spell checkers than real dictionaries. To partially answer my own question there is of course the Jargon File/New Hackers Dictionary. All i need know is to find if it some one has already packaged it for ispell or if there is an easy way to convert it to an ispell file -- Are you pondering what I�m pondering? I think so, Brain, but pants with horizontal stripes make me look chubby.
