On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Alan wrote: > > 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 I have a slightly older version of the jargon file as a plain word list which includes inflected forms of the entries (ing, ed, plural form, etc). You can find it at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/. You still need to convert it to an ispell hash file though. Or you could just use Aspell. ;) I also have SCOWL (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/) which provides much better word lists for spell checking English. In offers them in a large variety of sizes. I use size 65 (+ a few special word lists) for Aspell which I found to be about right as it includes almost all words the average person will use (plus a couple added hacker terms). It is much better than the ispell word lists. I have been trying to get AbiWord to use them for there Ispell hash files but it seams like no one cares. --- Kevin Atkinson kevina at users sourceforge net http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
