The JAWS dictionary is an entirely different thing and just deals with pronunciation. With Open Book it is a matter of whether the spell checker is going to catch a word as a scanno or assume that it is spelled correctly and ignore it. If a word that has been added to that dictionary by mistake can be removed I haven't figured out how yet. I suppose I could uninstall the whole shebang and reinstall it. That would start me all over with all the default settings and the original dictionary, but I would really like to avoid that. It took a long time to get it just the way I want it and I have a whole bunch of books stored in it that would have to be backed up. If I can't figure out a way to change the dictionary I am inclined to just leave it. The scanno I just accidentally added is one that would be rare and the other words I added are rare words themselves or else they would already be in the dictionary. I just thought better of them because I can imagine situations in which they might crop up as mistakes. If I am very diligent about reading each page I scan, though, I should catch any such unwanted occurrences and manually correct them. I would just prefer that the spell checker do it for me though.
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Hi, Roger, I think it may be possible to delete a word from the Jaws dictionary. I haven't done that myself, but have added stuff with what I call creative spellings to insure the pronunciation I'd prefer. I'm wondering if your scanning software has a search feature. If you know what that scanno is, perhaps you can find it in your dictionary. It would be horrid if you couldn't remove a word from the dictionary if it shouldn't be there. I believe Kurzweil might give one that ability. It seems logical to me that Open Book would operate in the same fashion. If not, somebody should talk to the engineers who made this up. I'm thinking Debby Franson or some other fellow Open Book user can help you out. Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:05 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Altering Open Book Dictionary I am using Open Book 6.0. As I scan a book I regularly do a spell check. Over time I have added an occasional word to the dictionary and then later thought better of it. Just now I did something even worse. The spell checker caught a word that I could not place, so I tried to hit the button for reading the sentence in which it occurs. Instead, I accidentally hit the button to add the word to the dictionary. It turns out that the word was a scanno. It was two words that should have been seperated by a dash. From now on if my spell checker runs across that particular scanno it will assume that it is the correct word and ignore it. That mistake does not belong in my Open Book dictionary. Does anyone know how to delete mistakes like that from the dictionary short of reinstalling the entire software? _ _ _ "Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence." - Friedrich Engels Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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