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How to get a dictionary

To use the spell checking function, you have to create a dictionary by yourself or you can visit http://www.WriteAndSet.com and download the current dictionary collected by WSedit users.

All spell checking functionality is available from the Menu, item "spell checking".

You can enter a filename for the dictionary in the Dict Page of the settings notebook. If you don't enter a directory, the spell checking file has to be located at the same directory where WSedit.exe resides.

If you want to create a dictionary by yourself, you need to have existing Wordstar or ASCII files which are already spell-checked or where you can be sure that there are no incorrect words: Load the file into WSedit and choose "spell checking - absorb current file to dictionary".

If you have received another WSedit dictionary file from a friend or from the Internet, you can merge this file with "your" dictionary file by using "import external directory".

The principle of the WSedit dictionary is quite simple: If a word has to be absorbed, the endings

(english) es 's s ions ion ings ing
(german) es e 's s en em n

are cutted and the first character is converted to lower-case. Then it is compared to the contents of the dictionary. If no similar entry is found, it is placed into the dictionary.

The dictionary file is a normal ASCII file in IBM codepage. The words are sorted by an internal sort algorithm, not by the alphabet. You can add manually words at any position.

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