Dictionary is now spelling Nazi

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Wed Apr 12 22:18:49 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-04 at 22:25 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:41:40PM -0400, David Liguori (liguorid at albany.edu) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Matt Morgan wrote:
> > >On 4/7/06, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m at bozemanlug.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>Ok, now I have another complaint.
> > >>
> > >>With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses.  Now it returns an
> > >>annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
> > >>letter wrong.  WTF?
> > >
> > >
> > >What is your "strategy" setting under preferences (Edit menu)?
> > >
> > >Mine (FC4) is "Match headwords with Levenshtein distance one."
> > >
> > Probably something like "Hamming distance".
> 
> There is no preference setting for "Levenshtein" or otherwise.  I
> recall seeing such in previous versions and twiddled them.  The version
> installed is "Dictionary 2.14.0" the only preference settings is
> 'source' and 'print'.
What application are you using?

I have FC3 and FC5, the dictionary on ether panel has a setting for 
the strategy under its preferences.




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