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Article #2054Re: American to English spelling
From: Lar Kaufman
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 23:17
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 23:17
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In article <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes: >Does anybody have an editor script to convert American spelling >(localize, color) to English spelling (localise, colour)? I'd use This is a non-trivial task, eh? I don't have a good answer, but I understand that FrameMaker International edition can set spelling to either US or UK, and then you could run the spellchecker, telling it to globally replace. You would have to make a complete pass, I think, telling it once to go ahead for each word that needs to be changed... I haven't seen the International edition, only heard it described. a 1.5 Million word dictionary in beaucoup languages (with a UK/US switch)! -lk -- --------- TIVOLI Systems, Inc. Lar Kaufman 512-454-3301 (voice) 512-329-2455 4503 Sinclair Avenue (fax) 512-329-2755 Austin, Texas 78756 USA (e) lark@tivoli.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!tivoli!lark From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: American to English spelling Message-ID: <179@tivoli.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 90 23:17:35 GMT References: <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX Lines: 18