Re: Spell checker

[LeeH920226 at aol_com]

In a message dated 7/23/02 7:28:27 AM, killiman at iquest_net writes:

<< I was asking to see if any one had them in a file or list they could

download to me.  >>

I was a reviewing proofreader for Dr. Ken Lazara in the preparation of KMI4 
and I can foresee some problems with a spell checker based on the KMI. The 
first and foremost problem is that the text contains many deliberate 
misspellings because they are part of the literature. Would you want the 
spell checker to include them? I don't think so. The second problem is not 
with scientific genus and species names but with collection names. Local 
spellings in many collection countries are strictly local option and quite 
variable. Which one or two would you include in the spell checker? The third 
problem is with the sheer magnitude of such a task. However, that should not 
deter you from doing the following. First, find or create a text document 
that includes the names that you want. Then run a spell check on that 
document and add every word when given that option. One possible list of 
species names could be the KMI 4 Ready Reference Guide to Names available at
http://ark.killi.net/AList.htm
    You can copy and paste that text into a mail or word processing program 
and then run the spell checker and add every word to your custom dictionary. 
If nothing else comes of this effort besides your personalized custom 
dictionary, you will also have spent some time imprinting the names in your 
mind. Both are worth doing. You can do the same with any other document that 
is on line and can be copied and pasted. (Some Adobe Acrobat documents cannot 
easily be copied.)

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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