French Dictionary

[Edward Yadzinsky]

On Fri, 1 May 1998, John Drendel wrote:

> However, once again, the speed of a
> 16bit dos program like Hugo applied to an ascii NB file in a pentium
> machine is phenomenal.

Cher Monsieur:

Where can one find "HUGO" -- ?

cheerz/yadz

[John Drendel]

In response to Ora and Steven, let me say that I am still using the Dos
version of Hugo. I have played around with all the French versions of
Win95 word processors, (Word, WP) and Word, in particular, has a nice
grammar checker. However, once again, the speed of a

16bit dos program like Hugo applied to an ascii NB file in a pentium

machine is phenomenal. I played with the Petit Robert on CDROM a few
weeks ago, and it is very ponderous; it's much faster to use the paper
version. Hugo has a very
good dictionary; as a grammar checker it is not so hot; it cannot make
past participles agree, but it picks up major errors of number and gender
in simple phrases pretty well.

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Ora Avni wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Unfortunately, NotaBene does not have a real French dictionary (that
> actually gives the meaning of words) and its spell checkers is very faulty.
> I use it since I already have it, but it is consistently wrong on
> apostrophes, capitalization and a few other words (it flags the word "je"
> for example :-)). NY told me, I think last year, that it was a third party
> module and that NB did not intend to improve it in the near future. I have
> decided to wait for NBWin and see if they come up with anything better
> rather than to spend money now, and probably again when NBWin comes out. I
> know of a few dictionaries around (I use the Robert-- in its own screen),
> but I do not know if they integrate with NotaBene for spelling.
>
> Ora Avni
>
>
>
> 03:52 PM 4/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm finding myself starting to need a French dictionary for both spell
> >correction and looking up words. Before I purchase NotaBene's french
> >dictionary, I thought I'd inquire on the list whether anyone would have
> >any particular recommendations, caveats, etc.
> >
> >I do have a concern that what I purchase now from NB might not be
> >usable in their new Windows version, but I'm not sure what I can do
> >about that.
> >
> >BTW, my phone inquiry to NY about when the new Windows version might be
> >available resulted in a "we hope this summer". Nothing more specific
> >than that.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >________________________|___________________________|______________________
> > Michael O'Brien m...@world.std.com Lincoln, MA
> >
> **********************
> Ora Avni
> Department of French
> Yale University
> New Haven, CT 06518
>

John Drendel

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