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WP{WP}SP.DOC 6/28/89
WP{WP}SP.LEX
Although this Word Perfect 5.0 lexicon file is a little bit
corrupted, I find it useful and think you will, too, if you
write in Spanish enough to need a lexicon to look over your
shoulder. It's the typos that kill you, particularly if you
learned Spanish in school. If you learned it growing up, you
probably can't spell it for beans to begin with. For you,
this lex file will make you come off smelling like an Anglo
(who can spell it *real* gud but talks it kinda' funny). For
all of us, it shows where the accents go and there are only a
few of us left these days who know the accent rules cold. Why
not let your unaccented words get flagged as misspelled, then
let the spellcheck replace them for you? Of course, there's
always the jokers, such as 'líquido,' 'liquido,' and 'liquidó,'
but you knew that already or you wouldn't be writing in Spanish.
Spellchecking isn't going to make the choice for you.
I found WP{WP}SP.LEX on a BBS in Houston, configured for WP 4.2
and containing at least one continuous run of corrupted spellings.
In its present form it clearly is not commercially viable, which
is NOT to say it is not a useful writers' tool. I ran it through
the convert filter and found to my surprise that it works, it
contains all accents and tildes, it is nontrivial, and seems in
most respects to be the counterpart of the English language lexi-
con supplied with your basic WP5 package.
It even holds some international computer terms such as "ascii"
and "baud." Not too shabby, considering that to date I have added
some 3600 words to my WP5 English lexicon, words like "perestroika,"
"bluejeans" and "decaf." It's become a game with me to find words
that WP Corp. doesn't acknowledge, while I snicker at the company's
brazen bid for the medical and scientific trade with 20-letter jaw-
busters that are maybe used once in an entire career, if ever.
(Check it out. Look up a twenty-letter wildcard, using the
"????????????????????" search string.) "See the word, say the
word, spell the word, use the word ten times in ten sentences."
Interestingly enough, the common words list contains "señor" but
not "señora." Makes me wonder whose bias is showing....
Despite my best efforts, I cannot locate again the run of defects,
which I swear I found in a stone-cold sober moment while checking
a text. You'll know it when you see it. Two adjacent letters are
consistently transposed -- a metathesis. You'll draw the same
conclusion I have -- too much trouble to eliminate it via "Spell."
To swap lexicons in WordPerfect 5.0, key (Format) SHIFT-F8,4,4
and type 'sp' to activate the Spanish lexicon. Next time you
work on that file, the proper lexicon will be there waiting.
My SPANWIND macro shows at the bottom of your screen the Key =
or Control-V sequence for accented letters. I don't know
about you, but I can never remember that stuff. Helps to have it
right there in front of you in a small 3-line window. It's only
useful, of course, if your printer can do an international char-
acter set, but I think a lot of the more recent designs can print
at least some of those hi-bit acute accents and so forth. The
macro finds and loads in the file SPACCENT.TXT, so you'll need to
edit via Macro Def to use your own pathnames to find the right file.
Buen provecho.
Ed Seeger
6324 Haskell
Houston, TX 77007
713/880-5307