Hi Cornelius,
I have some bad news for you. First, the dictionaries you've been
looking at, such as en_GB.dic, are from Open Office and can't be used
by Word. The Microsoft Office main dictionaries have names like
MSSP3EN.LEX, and they're in binary format -- they aren't readable as
plain text. Second, even if Word's main dictionary used a scheme like
the Open Office one, it demonstrably doesn't work in Word's custom
dictionaries.
Try it: Deliberately enter an unrecognized word in a document -- for
example, 'schmack' -- so it's shown as a misspelling. Right-click it
and select Add to Dictionary, which puts it in the custom dictionary.
Then go to Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar, click the Custom
Dictionaries button, and modify the custom dictionary to add /DSG to
the end of the entry (and remove the original entry). Now you'll find
that not only does Word _not_ recognize and of the extra endings, it
also doesn't recognize the root 'schmack' any more. It _does_
recognize the literal 'schmack/DSG' which is not what you want.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:32:05 -0700, cornelius1729
<cornelius1729.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Words in the standard dictionaries are given a code to show its allowed
>endings. For example, from the British English dictionary en_GB.dic, accost
>is recorded as:
>accost/DSG
>
>In this case the codes aren't too hard to work out - 'D' means accosted is
>allowed, 'S' means accosts is allowed and 'G' means accosting is allowed.
>
>Some cases are less clear, but I can't find any documentation to explain all
>the codes. Does anyone know where to find a full list of the syntax? It
>would be really useful to tidy up my custom.dic file.
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