From: JSimons305@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 14:42:01 GMT
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 Francis James Franklin wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pete Jacob wrote:
>> I am looking for a medical dictionary for abiword...
>
>I've hunted round the internet but haven't seen any.
>
>> if not I am not a programmer, but would be willing to help
>> add entries into some sort of file for the programming of.
>
>All that's really needed is a list of words. If you can supply me with a
>list of words I can probably add them to a standard english dictionary and
>create a new hash.
>
>AbiWord usually uses ispell but has some support for aspell/pspell. The
>aspell.sourceforge.net website has some instructions on how to create
>dictionaries with specialist lists. (ispell is a lot clumsier.) It may be
>worth your while to post to aspell-user since you are certainly not the
>first person to look for a medical dictionary; there may even be projects
>under way to create such a dictionary :-)
>
Atlantis has a medical spell-checker add-on. They use the external
dictionaries from Addictive Software:
http://www.addictivesoftware.com/dicts-extern.htm
Clipmate also uses these dictionaries.
I don't know how useful this will be for what you want. Good luck.
Janet M. Simons
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