From: Roman Pixell (roman_at_pixell.net)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 17:40:04 PDT
On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:
> On 22-sep-04, at 0:31, Roman Pixell wrote:
>> the swedish dictionary is not the best one dough, which, combined with
>> the fact that the NOS lacks the possibility to turn off the english
>> dictionary makes it work ... hmm ... not as good as the english one.
>
> Actually this isn't true AFAIK.
> If you get Paul's DictMngr and you go into
> 'commons(attributed)(forward)' and uncheck the Enabled checkbox it
> disables the internal dictionary, great fro recognition with foreign
> languages.
> (BTW, this sound more difficult than it is in practice)
> I use this all of the time and from looking at the accuracy and the
> good second guesses it comes up if it goes wrong, my Dutch dictionary
> is certainly very active.
> BTW, I never loaded a French one, the best option would be to activate
> whatever language one desires of course...
what i said was that there was no built in feature for this in NOS.
you have to use a third-party program.
i know dictmengr and alt.rec will allow you to specify the wordlist you
want to use. that was why i posted the link!
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