Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ugun2b!ugsc2a!kanala From: kanala@sc2a.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Wanted: German Word Processor, Thesaurus and Spellcheker Message-ID: <1990Nov30.104229.321@sc2a.unige.ch> Date: 30 Nov 90 08:42:29 GMT References: <90332.214434RBF@psuvm.psu.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 24 In article <90332.214434RBF@psuvm.psu.edu>, RBF@psuvm.psu.edu (Bob Fowles) writes: > Microsoft sells a package with several language dictionaries that can be > used with Microsoft Word to spellcheck documents written in those languages. > The only disadvantage is that once in Word you can spellcheck only in the > language chosen when you launched Word. > Bob Fowles, Penn State I am using MacWrite II 1.1 (US version) with the following spelling checkers: US English British Francais Deutsch There is a menu "Spelling" with "Install dictionaries" and "User Dict.", etc. Extremely useful, and the dictionary use is recorded into the saved file so that the next time the file is opened, the correct dictionary is installed. The dictionaries are common for Mac Write II, MacDraw II (maybe even FileMaker but I am not sure). I do not have German thesaurus and I've never seen one. -------------------------- Roman Kanala, CUEPE, University of Geneva, Switzerland, kanala@sc2a.unige.ch -------------------------- I will never buy a Ford because of Pinto. I will never buy a Word because of MS-DOS.