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From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 14:56:16 GMT

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    On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 JSimons305@aol.com wrote:

    > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 Francis James Franklin wrote:
    >
    > >On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pete Jacob wrote:
    > >> I am looking for a medical dictionary for abiword...
    > >
    > >I've hunted round the internet but haven't seen any.
    > >
    > >> if not I am not a programmer, but would be willing to help
    > >> add entries into some sort of file for the programming of.
    > >
    > >All that's really needed is a list of words. If you can supply me with a
    > >list of words I can probably add them to a standard english dictionary and
    > >create a new hash.
    > >
    > >AbiWord usually uses ispell but has some support for aspell/pspell. The
    > >aspell.sourceforge.net website has some instructions on how to create
    > >dictionaries with specialist lists. (ispell is a lot clumsier.) It may be
    > >worth your while to post to aspell-user since you are certainly not the
    > >first person to look for a medical dictionary; there may even be projects
    > >under way to create such a dictionary :-)
    > >
    >
    > Atlantis has a medical spell-checker add-on. They use the external
    > dictionaries from Addictive Software:
    > http://www.addictivesoftware.com/dicts-extern.htm
    > Clipmate also uses these dictionaries.
    >
    > I don't know how useful this will be for what you want. Good luck.
    >

    Interesting! I'd never heard of Atlantis before. It's nice to find a word
    processor with fewer features than AbiWord :-)

    I can't image any reason why someone would prefer it to us but hey, there
    are all sorts in the world.

    Cheers

    Martin



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