Neville, and the rest.
All the date handling ever processed by the extended Dictionary, is based on
entries in the Voice-Specific Dictionary, of any voice. In the English
Dictionaries, the American Date section, is rather extensive. I won't deal
in details, with the reason for it's being this extensive. But if you open
the Voice-Specific Dictionary of an English voice, you will find the section
spanning from line 169, way down to line 1891. It is introduced with the
Heading "; **** American Dates:", and ends where the next heading is reading
"; **** Other Date Definitions:".
To get rid of the American way of date handling, you will have to remove
this whole section. That is the chunk of lines, between the two above
mentioned headings. Once removed, your Dictionary should handle the
non-American ways of date notations properly. Note, this has to be done on
each Voice-Specific Dictionary, for the voices you want not to handle
American dates. The benefit would be, you could have one voice handling
American dates, and another voice which handles dates in the non-American
way. Switching voices, you then also would be switching the date handling
automatically.One of the big tayloring possibilities that is part of the
extended Dictionary project's intensions.
hope this helps.
PS: This is not being dealt with in detail in the User's Guide. Maybe a
miss, but I never thought it to be a wish. If there is a general call for
this to be dealt with more detailed than what this message does, I will
consider writing a separate chapter in the manual about "How to get rid of
American date handling". This message, though, should pretty much give the
info you need in this behalf.
Regards,
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neville" <[email protected]>
To: "GW Micro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 7:24 AM
Subject: new extended dictionary
Hi All,
Just installed the new dictionary app and although I am only a few
chapters through the manual, have a few comments.
Firstly, David is certainly to be commended because of the great deal of
hard work he has put into this project. At this early stage in my
learning, it seems to have great possibilities.
After installation, the alt shift keys would not work until it dawned on
me to shut down WE and re-start it. Then they worked.
The only problem which has occurred so far is concerning the reading of
the date. Hopefully reading more of the manual will give a solution.
e.g.
01 / 9/ 2012 is read as January 1 2012
Although this is correct if where you live uses the American system.
However, those of us who live where the English system is used, it should
read 1 September, 2012.
Can anyone inform me whether this is covered anywhere in the manual and
whether the app is adaptable to the English system?
Thanks
Neville.
Those
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