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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Loading the user dictionaries; selecting the main dictionary.
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- I've struggled long enough with this to be doubt that I am misreading
- the documentation such as it is.
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- I use two user dictionaries normally: one a fairly stable one with
- things like my name and other words which occur in many files; and the
- other a highly "file-specific" one. I cannot use the f1-c-d...
- options to load them both, whether with f10 or enter. I have made the
- frequent-use dictionary the default, and it seems to appear as this in
- nbcustom.set. The documentation says that it will be loaded when
- needed.
-
- I find that the only way I can get the two dictionaries loaded is by
- using the command line, putting the file-specific one first so that
- new words are added to it; and then loading the more general one
- with the + command. Thereafter, things work ok. But it is impossible
- using the menus.
-
- Is this a reported problem? Have others encountered it also? Am I
- missing something?
-
- Further, when going back to spelling basics to sort this out, and
- selecting the main language dictionary, I was told when I tried to
- select British English and make it the default that ENGLISH.OV3 was
- not found. I copied this from \nb3, and the attempt to make it the
- default went ticketyboo in that the sense that there was no protest
- when I repeated the process. I thought that I had installed NB with
- this option, so I'm puzzled. But it did not solve the loading problem
- for the user dictionaries.
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
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