Contents - Index

Changing The Dictionary
The dictionary is a comma delimited .txt file formatted as follows:
Number,  Word, Ambiguous/Unambiguious flag (A or U), Source identifier, e.g.

142072122150, transcontinental's, A, C
75485474920, chlorofluorocarbons, U, C
73941321501, compartmentalized, U, C
12011625062, deinstitutionalization, U, C

Prefixes and suffixes are denoted by  a '-'. These are listed at the end of the dictionary, e.g.

0473, circum-, U, E
1420, trans-, U, E
214, inter-, U, E
...
9, -up, U, E
4, -ure, U, E
0, -us, U, E

Additional identifying information, such as copyrights or version info, may be placed in the file.  Just be sure the entry can not be confused with actual dictionary information, i.e a number followed by a comma followed by a word.

Case and non-alphabetic characters such as spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens are ignored during conversion.  Fields must not have leading or trailing spaces.

Nonconforming dictionary entries are ignored and no error messages displayed.

The entries are sorted in descending order by the number of digits in the numeric string. Words are presented in the 'Candidate' list in the order that they appear in the dictionary file. Consequently, words that represent long strings of digits will appear at the top of the list.  This allows you to easily make selections that minimize the number of words in the translation.

You can change dictionaries, even in the middle of a conversion, by using the 'Open' command under the 'File' menu.

Please let me know if you know of other dictionaries that could possibly be included.