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- From: Mike Dustan <Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca>
- Subject: Re: Dictionary
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.222419.10420@sfu.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:24:19 GMT
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- In article <2999@his.UUCP> Jonas Mellin, jonas@his.UUCP writes:
- >I am working with documents in English and Swedish. This tends to mess up
- >my personal dictionary for framemaker.
- >
- >Is it possible to attach a personal dictionary to a document in some way?
- >
-
- It's awkward to do. You could probably create a document containing all
- the words you want in your dictionary, then spell-check it and "allow in
- document" all your words. Save the rsulting document and your target
- document in MIF, then open the MIF dictionary file with a text editor and
- cut-and-paste the dictionary entries into the MIFed target file. Ugly.
-
- Or try the above, but delete all text from your dictionary file and try
- saving it as a template. I don't know if dictionary entries remain in a
- template, but it might help.
-
- >Or even better, would it be possible to attach the personal dictionary
- >to a certain language? This would be a nice feature when a document with
- >mixed languages is created.
-
- There may be a way to do this but I'm not sure...
-
- >
- >Is it possible to globally specify that another personal dictionary
- >than 'fmdictionary' is going to be used?
-
- Yes. At least in the Mac environment, and I expect on other environments
- too, you can specify a Site Dictionary which is searched along with the
- main Frame dictionary. I haven't experimented a great deal with this
- stuff, though, so I don't know how well it really works.
-
- Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
- Canada
-