Hindrik Sijens wrote:
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> Van: Jogchum Reitsma <jreitsma@fa.knaw.nl>
> Aan: jhudson@cup.cam.ac.uk
> CC: corpora@hd.uib.no; hsijens@fa.knaw.nl
> Onderwerp: Re: Corpora: SPELLCHECKER QUERY
> Datum: woensdag 1 oktober 1997 12:58
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> Not only WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, also WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows (and possibly later WP-versions - I didn't check that yet, but I'm going to for Corel WordPerfect 8) has possibilities for creating dictionaries from scratch. You have to download a supplement program, which I at that time did at no extra cost from an official WordPerfect bulletin board. We used it to create a spellchecker for the Frisian language, a minority language used in the province of Friesland, in the northern part of the Netherlands. I haven't found a possibility to create hyphenation files, so in our case I simply used the ones for Dutch, which apart from other benefits frees you from the boring 'Unable to load hyphenation file'-message each time you forgot to disable hyphenation. But if you see possibilities for creating correct hyphenation files, please let me know.
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> By the way, I didn't manage to create a working spellchecker for WordPerfect 6.0(a or b) - according to the WordPerfect helpdesk, there's a bug in the 6.0 dictionary creating software, which will remain uncorrected.
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> Jogchum Reitsma
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