There is a program called Grammarian. I used to use it under OS9 and I think you could get other languages for it. Casady & Greene used to publish it but that company folded. I thought I read that someone else picked up the program from them. Here is what I found on a google search:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/grammarianprox.html About Grammarian PRO X Grammarian PRO X is an arsenal of professional writing tools to combat those embarrassing writing errors that everyone tends to make, a universal interactive spelling checking, grammar checking, dictionary, autocorrect, and autotype tool that works with virtually every program on your computer. What?s in Grammarian PRO X: - Universal spelling, grammar, dictionary, autocorrect, and autotype in every Mac OS X application. - Universal interactive (check-as-you-type) with auto-show spelling and grammar and universal batch spelling and grammar checking. - Spell checking uses thematics technology together with the grammar parse engine for error checking and suggestions. Over 220,000 words internal metaphonic spelling dictionary plus over 400,000 external spelling dictionary words, checks homophone spelling and uses phonetic or typographic suggestions. Simultaneous multilingual spell checking with additional free language dictionaries. - Many more features. What?s New in this Version - New: Dynamic ?Check All Spelling...? pencil menu item. Holding the option key down changes the ?Check All...? menu item to ?Check All Spelling...?. - New: Panther System Input Menu item functionality as well as the Grammarian application pencil menu. - New: Optimization speedup of error check selection replacement, interactive typing, AutoCorrect, and AutoType. - Many more enhancements. > I would like to install a German Thesaurus ( Synonym W?rterbuch) so > that I could look up words in the Sherlock. Does anybody know of such a > program or where I might be able to find it in free or shareware? Thus > far I googled up only books. I have enough of them. I am sure in the > German iMacs the system offers the German equivalent of Sherlock. > Marta > Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin a.D. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. Kind regards, Andy a0arno01 at athena.louisville.edu Remember the two most important things in life: 1. Don't tell everyone everything you know 2. The software box said, "Windows XP or better," so I bought a Macintosh. "Macintosh. We may not have done everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."-Douglas Adams | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
