[NTLK] How to use the kallisys dictionaries?

From: Compaq Master (compaqmaster_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 16:27:19 EDT


 
How to use the kallisys dictionaries

 

To Poul

  

Thanks a lot for answering my last question Poul, hope you or somebody else might find time to answer these as well. I am sorry that I used your name in the Title, using a news list is something new for me. I have now installed alt.reg., which is another piece of fantastic software, and this gives me some idea of which words are in the dictionary, since my Newton now writes "misspelled" words in a different font. Please do not take the following as criticism, you have made my Newton a new piece of hardware, and it is fantastic, I am simply trying to understand the workings of the dictionary, and I plan to write a small piece about the software and let Danish Newton owners know about my experiences with the software. There is some very ordinary words, like "maybe, sunshine, best" "måske, solskin, bedst" that the dictionary does not recognize. Is there a simple reason for that, I could easily understand if it was words rarely ever used, but for example "maybe" is as common a word in Danish as it is in any lang
uage. Then you write that:

  

"ing is in the DictDK, apparently it's a mistake. It means that the spell checker will make propositions which may seem weird".

  

Does that simply mean that the word "ing", which does not exist in the Danish vocabulary is in the dictionary? I found that the words "udle" and "udve" seams to be in the dictionary, those words are as far as I know not in the Danish vocabulary, but I figured that it might be because there is quit a few words that begins with "udle" and "udve", and that they have been but in the dictionary for that reason. Finally you write that the Danish users are responsible for finding the list and reducing the list to 30K words. What is the reason for reducing the list, the speed of use, or the time it takes to make the list, or the amount of storage used on the Newton? I would think that the dictionary is the sole most important part of the Newton, and I would gladly help type down another 30000 words, if that it is needed. Would it help if Danish Newton users collected mistakes, like the "ing", so that if it a one time should become possible to make a revised edition, it would be without the mistakes of the first edit

ion?

  

Once again it is amazing, thanks a lot.

  

Mads Gorm Larsen

 

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