Additions form Eric J.J. van Horssen: > From Horzel@xs4all.nl Mon Aug 12 06:52:13 1996 > Message-Id: <199608120039.CAA21119@magigimmix.xs4all.nl> > From: Horzel@xs4all.nl (Eric J.J. van Horssen) > To: pilz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Polzfusz) > Subject: Re: HOW TO GET MORE THAN ONE DICTIONARY UNDER GEOS (FAQ): > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 00:24:07 GMT > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 > pilz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Polzfusz) wrote: > >-Geos uses extra lines in its GEOS.INI for the Houghton-Mifflin-hyphenation- > >file that's used for the hyphenation. Normally changing the spell-checking > >language with "Preferences" would cause the correct entry entered into the > >"hyphenationLanguage"- and "hyphenationDictionary"-lines. But sometimes you'll > >have to do this manually (I don't know why). The "h...Language"-line will > >contain the language-number (s. below), the "h...Dictionary"-line the > >file-name (The file has to be in your userdata\dicts-folder!!!!!!! Maybe the > >name has to be something like "H*.DAT", but maybe not.) > The hyphenationDictionary and hyphenationLanguage parts of the .ini > file must go under the [text] part. > >-Spell-checking: You can either manually change your GEOS.INI or let > >"Preferences" do this for you. The later one requires a *.gdi-file in your > >userdata\dicts-folder, e.g.: > For those of you who are able to find a Dutch spelling library, or > those of you who have the Dutch 1.xx version with the spelling library > The holland.gdi file : > --------------------------------------- > IDUF9121.DAT > Nederlandse voorkeursspelling > Voorkeursspelling (accepteert bijvoorbeeld alleen academie, cursus) > 11 > 128 > IDUF9121.DAT > Ned. voorkeurs- en niet voorkeursspelling > Voorkeurs- en niet voorkeursspelling (accepteert ook akademie, > kursus), maar geen buro, kado of frikando. > 11 > 64 > ---------------------------------------- > >c) UNTESTED (s. the warnings of part "b"!) > >========================================== > >-The Zoomer (or at least the SDK-emulation of the Zoomer) uses Xerox-files > >instead of Houghton-Mifflin-files. It even uses them for the thesaurus! > >Maybe you can use Dos/Windoofs-Xerox-files on your Zoomer, too. And maybe > >you can copy the Zoomer-system-files to your PC-Geos so that you can use > >Xerox-files on your PC, too (that would result in a German thesaurus, e.g.). > >-The Omnigo uses Geos 2.1. Maybe you can use Omnigo-system-files on your > >desktop, too, in order to get advanced spell-checking-facilities. > >-Maybe the new republisher of PC-Geos will make this whole text obsolete and > >provide more dictionaries as a default and/or solve the "English-only > >thesaurus"-problem. > 'Zoomer'(SDK) > If you search the system library you won't find spell.geo, the > system's spellchecking program.On the Zoomer there is a program (that > is missing on the SDK(later : probably cause of copyright Palm) ) that > is using the file you mention. It's a program that act's as an > electronic dictionary. You cann't use it from a texteditor nor from an > application like geowrite. > Geos name : Dictionary > Dos name : Dict.geo > (c) Palm computing > 'PT9000' sdk has the systemlibrary spell.geo and has the dictionary's > 'OmniGo' (the real thing, don't have the SDK) > Can't find any spellchecking so far, any body ? > -- > Geos groetjes uit Nederland > Horzel > ----------------------------------------------------- > Eric J.J. van Horssen; Haarlem; The Netherlands > Horzel@xs4all.nl Horzel@AOL.com Horzel@Compuserve.com > ----------------------------------------------------- OTHER ADDITIONS: ================ The following text is the file SPLFILES.TXT on the CorelDRAW 3.0 CD ------------------------------------------------------------------- The ".dat" files are the spelling and hyphenation dictionaries for the various languages Hyphenation dictionaries hdnry141.dat Danish hdurs241.dat Dutch hecrp301.dat English Comprehensive hfnry141.dat Finnish hfrrs241.dat French (accented/unaccented) hgrrs141.dat German (Doppel/Scharfes) hitrs141.dat Italian Comprehensive hsprs141.dat Spanish Comprehensive hswrs241.dat Swedish Comprehensive Spelling dictionaries idnf9111.dat Danish iduf9121.dat Dutch ienm9150.dat English Comprehensive ifnf9110.dat Finnish ifrf9121.dat French (accented/unaccented) igrf9112.dat German (Doppel/Scharfes) iitf9110.dat Italian Comprehensive ispf9110.dat Spanish Comprehensive iswf9111.dat Swedish Comprehensive English Thesaurus files ----------------------- COM_THES.DIS American English w/ definitions And here are the files on the CorelDRAW CD... D:\SPELDICT HDNRY141.DAT 39424 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HDURS241.DAT 43520 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HFNRY141.DAT 29184 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HFRRS241.DAT 13312 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HGRRS141.DAT 37376 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HITRS141.DAT 8704 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HSPRS141.DAT 10240 12:00:44 10/25/92 R HSWRS241.DAT 41472 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IDNF9111.DAT 339456 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IDUF9121.DAT 359424 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IFNF9110.DAT 350720 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IFRF9121.DAT 253440 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IGRF9112.DAT 331776 12:00:44 10/25/92 R IITF9110.DAT 222208 12:00:44 10/25/92 R ISPF9110.DAT 181760 12:00:44 10/25/92 R ISWF9111.DAT 226816 12:00:44 10/25/92 R SPLFILES.TXT 896 12:00:44 10/25/92 R By the way the Lotus word pro uses Houghton-Mifflin-hyphenation- thesaurus and spell-checking files, but i wasn't able to get them working under GEOS greetings Erik Wellner