On Thursday 18 November 2004 06:42 am, Gary wrote: > I'm not following you. Can you clarify? > > <snip>
...I'm not sure if it's the <snip> you wanted clarified instead, so here goes in clarifying the seperate file(s). ... with linux/unix accounts, each user has their own home directory, which may be a nice place to put preferences on which dictionaries to use. The later versions of windows such as win2k, xp, other also have user accounts of some sort... Suppose you are a 1-computer home. you use the computer for programming plus misc, english=yes prog-terms=yes (keep the above settings in Gary's home directory) meanwhile, suppose if you have a wife, your wife uses it for chat plus talking to others in her parents country. english=yes swedish=yes (keep the above settings in Gretta's home directory) ...supposing there is a junior...who likes games ;-) english=yes gametalk=yes oldspeak=flag-as-errors ;-) When Gary runs aspell, it tests for english & programming terms, meanwhile Gretta makes certain that her writing doesn't flag errors in swedish while junior writes gametalk and makes sure he doesn't put any words in his stuff that suggests that he's probably ancient-like-his-parents ;-) ------- possibility #2 Suppose you work in an office, let's say "Texas Oil New-n-used Pump Parts" Everyone in the office would belong to the group of sales-men ...ahem, modern term is sales associate :-) it would make sense that as a group, everyone have these set: english=yes oil-pump-terms=yes ...then the individual salespeople may have personal settings in their home directories for additional dictionary tests... salesman1 japanese=yes mandarin=yes saleman2 arabic=yes salesman3 french=yes german=yes spanish=yes salesman4 gametalk=yes oldspeak=flag-as-errors ;-) If it's a large company, you may have special groups too, such as engineering, enviromental, ...etc... in which case those groups may also get included in group dictionary selections..... hopefully that helps clarify the <snip> _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
