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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Re: Dictionary Manager
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.071832.15686@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov6.105903.29478@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <1992Nov9.221410.6998@mail.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:18:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.221410.6998@mail.cornell.edu> John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu> writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.105903.29478@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> Mario Herodotus,
- >m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com writes:
- >> Well I for one would like to see all the vendors settle on some
- >>dictionary and stick with that. I'd even pay a reasonable fee to buy
- >>the standardized dictionary, and would really welcome them using a
- >>standardized Thesaraus and hypenation dictionary too! My drive is
- >
- >Here's what I'd like to see:
- >
- >A standard suite of AppleEvents and a Dictionary Manager (and Thesaurus
- >Manager and Grammar Manager) that provide a standardized means for an
- >application to 'lookup' a word/phrase/sentence.
- >
- It already exists - it's called the Word Services Suite. It provides
- a set of Apple events for providing "services" which operate on words -
- spell checking, grammer checking, bibliography, indexing, etc. The first
- shipping server is Working Software's Spellswell (WS also initiated the suite)
- and the first shipping client is Chena Software's Fair Witness.
-
- The real test will be to get some of the "large" players like
- Microsoft, Claris, etc. to support these kinds of things.
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