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Article #2061Re: American to English spelling
From: Scott Horne
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 05:17
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 05:17
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In article <179@tivoli.UUCP> lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) writes:
>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?
Yes, for the reasons mentioned in my previous two articles.
>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)!
Yes, but will it be able to figure out that `jail' is supposed to be `gaol'?
--Scott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!horne-scott From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: American to English spelling Message-ID: <27204@cs.yale.edu> Date: 10 Nov 90 05:17:59 GMT References: <2402@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <179@tivoli.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: jaguar.zoo.cs.yale.edu Originator: horne@jaguar.CS.Yale.Edu