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New & Revolutionary Dictionary & Spelling Checker for Quark

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From: Andre_Lalonde
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:15
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			    October  1992

			      ANNOUNCING

			      PRO LEXIS

		       A NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY
	      PROFESSIONAL DICTIONARY & SPELLING CHECKER
			  ( IN FRENCH ONLY )
	       for QuarkEXpress 3.0 & 3.01 (X'Tension)
			   ON THE MACINTOSH


		  Now available in the US and Canada


			   Fast & Powerful:
		  1,000 words per second on a 68020,
		  6,000 words per second on a 68030,
		8,000 words per second on a Quadra 700
	     over 10,000 words per second on a Quadra 950


			      Interface

	 Global listing of errors with word and error counts
		      Dictionary: 500,000 words
	  New "rSg" technology (Radical - Suffix - Grammar)
      Easy to use: all mistakes identified in a scrolling window
		Real-time showing of selected mistakes
		 Errors can be corrected in any order
	  Corrections in any text bloc (inclined, linked...)
	  Possible single step correction of repeated errors


Grammatical analysis, elisions, composed personal pronouns, irregular  
plurals, invariable past participles and more...

Complete verb conjugations (all tenses, including the pronominal form)

Possible corrections of accents on capital letters

Correction of ligatures   and   (chef d' uvre, coup de c ur, c tera)

		   Unlimited personal dictionaries
     (can import technical vocabulary and foreign language words)

	   Temporary dictionary with user defined settings

		 Fully compatible with System 6 and 7

		Less than 500k on disk (decompressed)

Version 1.1a shipped with Main Dictionary and Proper Nouns Dictionary

		  Single or site licenses available

		In the US and Canada, please contact:

			   Expovision Inc.
			  53, McNider Ave.,
			  Outremont, Quebec
			    Canada H2V 3X5
	    Phone: (514) 277-2712     Fax: (514) 277-3811

		   E-Mail:  info%expovision@CAM.ORG

(Pro Lexis is also available for WriteNow and WordPerfect on the NeXT)
			 (NeXT Mail accepted)
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From: al%expovision@CAM.ORG (Andre_Lalonde)
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Subject: New & Revolutionary Dictionary & Spelling Checker for Quark
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