Re: dictionary desk space

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

I once helped someone set up XyWrite on his system and helpfully
included my spell file to show him how it worked.
 He was a European and I saw him a year or two later and he asked
me how come my name would suddenly appear in the middle of his
documents as he was typing. It turned it he had some reason to type
"da" (I forget why) occasionally, and, of course, ....

On May 25, at 10:43 AM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> M.W. Poirier wrote:
> >  It's a question of "belt and suspenders," I suppose. ;-)
> >  I suppose it would be possible to merge the more complete
> >  autocorrect "dictionary" with XY4's PER.SPL "dictionary,"
> >  and have the best of both worlds.
> Huh? Xy can already do that! "Auto-Check/Correct verifies your
> spelling as you type. If a replacement word has been stored in the
> temporary dictionary or in one of the personal dictionaries
> currently in memory, it will automatically correct as
> well." (CRG, 3-82).
> Of course, you have to include the "abbreviations" and their
> expansions in your spelling dictionary. For example (all names have
> been changed to protect the guilty), I have a .spl file I use when
> writing up council meetings. If I need to refer to the borough
> engineer, I type bdd and Xy expands that to Borough Engineer
> Diggory Delve. In the .spl file there's an entry that reads
> bdd Borough Engineer Diggory Delve
> There are some traps for the unwary. You need to have a unique
> abbreviation. A new councilman was elected last Nov., with the
> initials ADN. I couldn't use "adn" for his abbreviation, because
> it's already in there to expand to "and" (that being a favorite
> typo of mine). And your abbreviation shouldn't be one you might use
> as a word. A former mayor had a surname beginning with a T; let's
> say Tolliver. Having entered
> mt Mayor Tolliver
> I found I could not refer to the Mount Laurel Decision (an
> important court case in NJ) as "the Mt. Laurel decision" (which one
> shouldn't do anyway; Mount Laurel is a town, not a mountain), or I
> would get "Mayor Tolliver Laurel."
> Now if this program can give the capability to other, Windows apps,
> fine, well, and good. But Xy HAS it.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx


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