[bksvol-discuss] Re: One Big Dictionary Or a Bunch of Little Ones?
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:25:30 -0700
Well, JAWS says it does. Who you gonna believe, JAWS or him?
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From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: One Big Dictionary Or a Bunch of Little Ones?
It doesn't rhym with bureaucratic. Rather, it rhyms with antique.
Finicky booksharian that I am, I had to post for him.
E.
At 03:51 PM 8/19/2006, you wrote:
Well, if you hadn't told me that you weren't bureaucratic, Pratik, I might
not have known. Having a name that rhymes with bureaucratic can be
misleading. <grin> I'm not as organized as I should be. You should see
my inbox. On the other hand, I'd rather that you didn't. I wouldn't want
you to see the My Documents folder either. I do put things into
subfolders eventually, but I'm always behind the curve.
Seriously, though, I did some rereading of Chapter 9 of the manual for
K1000 last night after sending that message, and I realize that I should
have differentiated between corrections files and the spell checker file.
If I understand things properly, the corrections file is for words that
are misspelled, while the spell checker file is for correctly-spelled
words that K1000 doesn't know.
Unfortunately, unless I have missed something, you can add words to the
default corrections file from the spell checker, but not from rank
spelling. I say 'unfortunately', because I am not sure why I would want
to use the spell checker rather than rank spelling. Also, the spell
checker file must have been empty, or nonexistent and created when I added
the first word to it, because the only words in it are ones that I
remember adding when I was in rank spelling. So what happens to the words
you fix up in rank spelling by replacing them? I don't think they go to a
temporary file, because they do not reappear after restarting my computer.
They must be stored in a file somewhere, so why not be able to add them to
the corrections file?
I was actually talking about the spell checker file, I think, so that
technical terms and specialized words didn't keep coming up in every book
I scan. Apparently, unlike the corrections file, you cannot create more
than one spell checker file, so I will have to put everything into that
one file. You are right that I will have to be careful and try not to put
every little thing in it.
That will make for a huge file after a while with the kind of stuff I
read.
But I'm not sure if I am understanding things correctly here. That is
mainly why I am describing it here. Please correct anything I have gotten
wrong.
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From: <mailto:pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>Pratik Patel
To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:23 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: One Big Dictionary Or a Bunch of Little
Ones?
Evan,
The key to managing dictionaries is to be absolutely certain that you want
a word in the dictionary. When editing material you would need to ensure
that the word actually belongs there. Science fiction contains many words
that are technical in nature. Those may belong in the dictionary.
However science fiction also contains words that are made up by authors
that are purely fictional in nature. What you need to ask yourself is
whether you are likely to encounter the word again and again in the
readings that you do. If the word doesn't belong in the dictionary, just
ignore it or tell Kurzweil to "ignore all." I don't find the time savings
to be substantial when categorizing into different dictionaries. All of
my words are in the default dictionary. I find too much organization
distracting. That's why I find bureaucracies annoying. So, evan, the
world wants to know, are you a bureaucrat at heart?
Pratik
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 7:41 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] One Big Dictionary Or a Bunch of Little Ones?
A while back, I think it was Gerald who said that he uses several
dictionaries in K1000 for rank spelling? for different types of books?
Sorry, Gerald, if it wasn't you. I didn't have K1000 at the time, so
wasn't paying attention to that subject.
My question is what are the pros and cons of having everything in one
dictionary? How big can it get before things start to slow down? If you,
or anyone else here, uses a bunch of little ones, don't you have to keep
putting many of the same words in each one in addition to the specialized
terms it doesn't know, such as words that aren't in the dictionary but are
not specialized terms, including those that are in the default dictionary,
or proper names? Or do you just leave proper names out and ignore them
when they come up? If so, certain common ones may keep showing up. I'm
not very familiar with this part of the program yet. Can I use more than
one dictionary at once, so I don't have to keep adding certain things to
each one? If so, why not just use one big one? If I can only use one
dictionary at a time, don't I have to basically recreate the default
dictionary to avoid all the words that would have been covered by the
default dictionary? We're back to one big one again.
As you can see, I am leaning more toward throwing everything into one
large dictionary if I can do it without bogging down my system. What are
the thoughts here? I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy, so the
number of added words could get large pretty quickly. The first book I
scanned with K1000 had hundreds, and I am not kidding, or exaggerating!
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