Re: Dictionairies..?

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Egwin J. Robaard" <egwin@grafidata.nl>
> I am working on a medical book right now. Our client wants the dictionary
> Dutch to be used and he has a dictionairy (ASCII) of his own for the
> medical terms. Is there a possibility to merge these two? And if there is,
> how do i create a new dictionary with both in it?

No, you cannot merge the main dictionary (Dutch) with another dictionary.
However, FM also uses a site dictionary and a personal dictionary when
spell-checking, so you can either edit the site dictionary or use a
special personal dictionary. It's probably easiest to create a special
personal dictionary for this purpose. The default site dictionary is
"site.dct" in the Dict folder in your FM installation, and the default
personal dictionary is "user.dct" in the FM installation folder.

In the Spelling Checker dialog, there's a button Dictionaries which
allows you to change the personal dictionary. If you create a new
dictionary file from scratch, you can use it by selecting Change
Dictionary from the Personal dictionary dropdown menu.

How to make a dictionary file is described in the FM documentation
(as is all of the above information). Basically, you create a text-only
ASCII file with the first entry being "<MakerDictionary 2.0>" and then
followed by the words on separate lines, preferably with hyphenation
points defined. Look at the files "user.dct" or "site.dct" for examples.


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