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From: JSimons305@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 14:42:01 GMT

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    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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