From: al@expovision (Andre_Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Localization: HA! <warning: flame>
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:56:04 GMT
Reply-To: al%expovision@CAM.ORG
Distribution: US & CANADA
Organization: Edition Electronique Expovision inc.

In article <1992Oct12.181423.9452@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>  
pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette) writes:
> 
> Is this really more than a spell checker? Your pub (which I
> received by e-mail - thank you) states that this product
> is 300k, uncompressed. I find it hard to believe that
> anything this small could be more than a spell checker.
> After all, Websters uses what, 11 Mb? 
> 
> For people who are interested in this kind of product, I
> would also like to mention that HSD is presently
> beta-testing a spell checking app. It conforms with the
> NeXT spell checking API, and can be accessed either
> through the Edit->Spelling button or as a service.
> I believe it will do English, French and German.
> 
> While I welcome the arrival of Pro Lexis and HDSpell, these
> products confirm the fact that NeXT doesn't intend to fully
> support other languages "out of the box", and that people who
> want to work in another language than English will have to pay
> extra $$$...
> 
The Pro Lexis Spelling Checker and Dictionaries (Grammar & Proper Nouns) 
reach 486k decompressed (300k is the Mac version).
Please note that this is a Grammar Dictionary not a Dictionary of
Definitions. Pro Lexis contains 500,000 words (comparable to 
the Medium Robert Dictionary). 
Roger Rainero from Diagonal (a French developer) 
and his crew have been working on this product for over 2 years which 
resulted in a new patented technology called "rSg" (Radical - Suffix - Grammar) 
For the time being, Pro Lexis is fully functional in 
WriteNow and WordPerfect only (on the NeXT).
But the dictionaries (in passive mode) can be accessed 
through the Services Menu from most apps (Concurrence, 
Diagram, FrameMaker, etc.)
Pro Lexis checks French spelling at a speed of 6,000 words 
per second on NeXTStations and NeXTCubes (8,000 words 
per second on NeXT Turbos) and offers full conjugations of 
verbs in all forms and tenses. If you are still skeptical as
to the authenticity of these features, you can obtain a demo from the 
NeXT CD-ROM  "Third Party Demonstration Software Q-2 1992".

I very sincerely apologize to all for having published a message in 
the wrong group. A conversation with our UUCP administrator has 
allowed me to redirect our message to comp.newprod where it belongs.

By the way I have checked the size of my Webster-Dictionary
located in NextLibrary/References. Its size is 42.4 MB and the 
Webster-Thesaurus is 3.24 MB. This might be due to all those
TIFF images and definitions... I don't really know.

- Andre
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" Pro Lexis is a Revolutionary Professional French Dictionary & Spelling Checker for WriteNow and WordPerfect on the NeXT."   (NeXT Mail Accepted)