[2791] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Word processing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 26 05:27:15 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: "John C. Kirk" <J.C.Kirk@durham.ac.uk>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:22:22 +0000 (GMT)
Reply-To: "John C. Kirk" <J.C.Kirk@durham.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9401251807.AA08420@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Will Martin wrote:
> Meanwhile, realize that because of affixes, the dictionary will need to
> be huge and will take years to develop just by writing text and then ADDing
> words to the custom dictionary. Even before we figure out if you can format a
> block of text as Klingon, recognize that you CAN create a special dictionary
> for it. Word allows you to maintain several discrete custom dictionaries.
>
> ...
>
> charghwI'
>
>
OK, I've done some digging around in DOS, and I've found that any custom
dictionaries are stored in the directory windows\msapps\proof. They are
straight ASCII files, and so they can be edited in the normal way, which
should be a lot faster than using the ADD feature via the spell checker.
When I was using a demo for languages, it said something about making
sure your .lex files were correct. I found 4 of these, 2 in the windows
tree, and 2 in the winword tree. These were all in gibberish, buit one of
them had some English words at the end of it. I don't know where words
are stored for the standard dictionaries of the languages it supports,
but maybe they're coded in there. I suspect that you need to modify the
.lex files, to add Klingon to the list of recognised languages.
Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this! Any ideas, anyone?
John
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