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Subject:Re: Controlled English From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 21 May 1998 17:11:34 +0800
Larissa Neumann wrote:
>Is software available that can check your work for compliance with
>Controlled English?
>I did search the internet and found one program, which is basically a
>dictionary of allowed and forbidden words. (The software is called
>Author's Structured Simplified English Tool (ASSET)).
Most word-processors support custom dictionaries. Could you create your
own dictionary of OK words, and run the spelling-checker over your
document using that dictionary only?
Regards
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Stuart Burnfield "Thinking outside of the docs"
Functional Software Pty Ltd mailto:slb -at- fs -dot- com -dot- au
