--- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 Do we even support "cascading dictionaries"? We would look in all of the chosen specialized dictionaries first and finally the main language dictionary until we find the word we're looking for. I'm not sure how this would impact candidate lists either. Does ispell already support this kind of thing? Does pspell? Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
