Den 16 January 2001 skal Philip Spaelti <spaelti@SHOIN.AC.JP> ha skrive: >I think the _choosing_ of spelling dictionaries in Nisus is a mess. >Before I go on about this however, I first want to second Gerhard's and Michael's experience. Hi Phillip, you begun rather optimistically but.... in your final paragraph you wrote: >Finally as to what might be causing problems. The Definition Dictionary definitely did cause crashes for me with NW 5 (I haven't tried it recently). However it caused problems only if it was loaded AND I tried to use is repeatedly. It's mere presence in the dictionary folder did not cause any trouble, and even having it loaded did not cause trouble -- at least not until I tried to look up a definition. How useful! :-) I had indeed tried to use the definition dictionary... That might be the explanation... (Michael, just click on the [?] inside the dictionary to bring it up. Please check it out....) About the other things you wrote: yes it is confusing the way you choose dictinoaries. The manual for the SuperDictionary says that one shall use it **instead** of the regular dictionary. But it also says one shall use it by clicking on it... In Gerhard's case, where he has both UK and US super dict. installed, how does he go from UK to US super dict or the opposite ? If he selected UK super in prefs, does NW also pick the US super dict for US language style ? (A renaming of the dictionaries sounds smart to me.) The topic of dictionary choice has links to NW's multlinguality in general. If you look up how the editors of in Emailers like Magellan, CyberDog, OE, Netscape's, PowerMail etc work, they let you at least select a spesific font for each script. A default font. If you look at web browsers they even let your have different defaults for differetn text styles (headers, body etc). While NW lack a such "wheel" for making such preferences. With Unicode this trouble might be gone. On Windows I think that if you choose Arial in Word you will use Arial as long as Arial contains the script you want to use. In NW currently NW only uses the font you used last time you used a particualr script. Anyhow, NIsus should not just make dictionary selection more logical for multilingual users, they should introduce new ways to set all the defaults for a given script and language. Leif (Ps, I have found that my NW's often defaults to UK english, for some reason).
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