Creating a user-defined dictionary
Use the userdict command to create a user-defined dictionary. You can execute the userdict command from the Arbortext Editor command line, a UNIX shell, or a DOS shell.
The structure of the command is:
userdict [-v] [-ef logfile] {-add | -delete | -list} -dict dictionaryname
[-lang language]
[-path path] {-f wordlist | word1 word2 …}
where
• -v is verbose, reporting additions or deletions as they are completed.
• –ef specifies the logfile in which to contain the output from the command. If the -v option is set, verbose output is redirected to logfile.
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If you execute the userdict command from the Arbortext Editor command line, do not use [–ef logfile], as they are set automatically.
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• -add adds words.
• -delete removes words.
• -list lists all the words in the dictionary.
• -dict specifies the name for your file where dictionaryname contains up to eight characters. Do not use a file extension when specifying the dictionary name.
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If the dictionaryname exceeds eight characters, the file name is truncated without a warning message. This can cause problems if the truncated file name is the same as another file name.
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• -lang specifies that the dictionary should be for a particular language. Each language requires a specific value for lang setting. The following languages have dictionaries:
◦ brz (Brazilian Portuguese)
◦ brt (British)
◦ cfr (Canadian-French)
◦ ctl (Catalan)
◦ dan (Danish)
◦ dut (Dutch)
◦ eng (American English)
◦ fin (Finnish)
◦ frn (French)
◦ grm (German)
◦ itl (Italian)
◦ nrw (Norwegian)
◦ nyn (Nynorsk)
◦ prt (Portuguese)
◦ spn (Spanish)
◦ swd (Swedish)
◦ sgr (Swiss-German)
• -path specifies a file system path to the user-defined dictionary. If you do not want the dictionary to be stored in the default location Arbortext-path\lib\proximity\userdict, use this option to specify the desired location.
• -f specifies wordlist, which is the path and file name of an ASCII file containing a list of words or misspelling pairs. When specifying the path for the wordlist, use slash ( / ), not backslash ( \ ) in the command. For example, you would type the following on the Arbortext Editor command line:
userdict -dict list -add -f wordlist.doc
• word1 word2... are words or misspelling pairs with a space between each word. Use a semi-colon (;) to separate the misspelled word and the correctly spelled word in a misspelling pair. For example, tthe;the. There are no restrictions on the number of entries allowed in the dictionary. There are no restrictions on the number of entries allowed in the dictionary.
