RE: SmartWords Spellers ["Dictionaries"]

["Frank Kenneth B." KBF@xxxxxxxx]

1. Its not just a question of the dll or the dictionary. Its much more
fundamental in how we interact with the speller. In addition we no longer
have the right to distribute the IBM speller without entering into a new
license agreement, which we are not inclined to do. I don't doubt that many
people use these dictionaries, but (and I will verify this) there is no
practical way for us to support it even for users who have already licensed
it from us.

3. I will have to check with our engineers to see if there is any way for
you to write VB routines to interact with our engine. I don't dispute the
value of this to users, but the interface is a compiled VB program, and we
are not shipping the source code for that. Of course XPL is still
operational.

Knowing how resourceful you and others are, I would not be surprised if you
find ways to do things with our software we didn't think were possible, and
we certainly welcome that. To the extent we can provide an interface that
will faciitate your experimentation I am happy to do that. But some of it
may take a while for us to be able to document.

K.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Holmgren [mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 8:24 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: SmartWords Spellers ["Dictionaries"]


** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:45:42
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>> What spell-check dictionaries will be included? Will you include
>> PCLEXAM.DLL so that we can run our PCLEX dictionaries under SW?

> 1. We abandoned Lexam (IBM's spell checker) long ago. We went back to the
> MicroLytics spell checker. The standard dictionary will be included.

I don't doubt that you abandoned it. But a lot of us still use it. Some
even
prefer it. And many own it, because they purchased Signature. These are
not
trivial dictionaries. The German and French PCLEX dictionaries are many
times (5? 6?) larger than the Microlytics dictionaries for those languages,
and by common consent, vastly superior. Many Europeans use them, as you
surely know because you've been listening here for a long time.

I'm simply talking reasonableness here. I'm asking for the DLL which
enables these dictionaries, and which TTG distributed with XyWin to some
European users. It works in SW. So why not include it? If its too late to
put it on the CD-ROM, why not post it on your website?

> 3. We have not enabled VB Script as a macro language, but the interface is
> in fact built in VB -- we have a command layer between VB and the
> composition engine that allows VB code to pass commands.

Have you included any sample scripts that indicate how to use VB to control
SW? Any documentation? If not, could you post a sample or two on the TTG
website?




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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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