Current date : 12 june 1999

This dictionnary is a non-redundant fusion of the WinEdt 1.414 french
dictionary and the following corrections.

I-Auditioned words:

I-1
In general these words ARE NOT specialized ones. They were verified to be present in the
                     ``Petit Larousse en Couleur''
                          Edition of 1982
                        ISBN 2-03-302381-8
Or in the
                          ``Petit Robert''
                          Edition of 1978
                        ISBN 2-85-036007-4
and they are therefore assumed to be part of the ``plain'' french.

The one-letter words were added, even if the default setting of WinEdt begins
the spelling at two-letters words. Indeed if every non-accentuated letters
are chemical or physical symbols (i.e. equivalent to word), some accentuated
letters are not, and the correction has to be possible (e.g. é, è, ù etc.)

I-2 The following words are not in the dictionnariesdictionaries quoted
above but were added for sake of coherence.


arginine, arginines, aspartate, aspartates, aspartique, aspartiques, glutamine,
glutamines, proline, prolines : presence of the other amino-acids
extracellulaire               : presence of "intracellulaire"

II- All words containing a apostrophe were removed. The prefixes were
added instead. There are two rationals. First the initial WinEdt french
dictionary contained numerous wrong words, probably arisen from automatic
fusion of characters (e.g. lorsqu' became lorsq\'u and so on). Second,
although present in standard dictionaries, such words result from a
modification of the correct which is already present in the dictionary.
The final outcome is a redundance, sometimes very important. For instance
the addition of entr' before a verb would need a new entry for all
conjugated forms.

III-
The code for \ae is 145 in ibm850 encoding but 230 in isolatin-1. Due to
the large utilization of the later and its inclusion inside unicode, the
ibm950 codes (default of windows95) were not used. \ae is wrongly written
as two separated letters a and e instead. The use of isolatin-1 encoding
is planned in the future releases (in particular, windows98 seems happy
with unicode).

Due to the absence of \oe and \OE in ISO8859-1, the words containing these
characters are wrongly described as two separated letters o and e. Their
inclusion will probably be longer than \ae (because unicode is far less
standard than isolatin-1).


Thanks to Franck Ramus for his help.

Nicolas le Novère
Neurobiologie Moléculaire
Institut pasteur
25, rue du Dr Roux
75724 PARIS, cedex, FRANCE
tel : 33-(0)1-45-68-88-44
fax : 33-(0)1-45-68-88-36
lenov@pasteur.fr

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This dictionary was originally compiled from public domain sources for the
amSpell spell-checker by

  Erik Frambach (e-mail: e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl).


I have further modified this dictionary for use with WinEdt:
  The dictionary is decompressed, translated from OEM to Windows
  Character set, and sorted by WinEdt's Dictionary Manager.

alex