This is the Read-Me file for "de.zip".

The new German (base) dictionary from May 1998 is now called
"de.dic", as was the first version dating back to early 1997 (or
so). Its successors were "de3.dic" and "de2.dic". We decided to
switch back to the old name because this version is a new start,
from which update possibilities will be provided.

"de.zip" contains many files. One is the base dictionary, called
"de.dic". The file "de.dic" is accompanied by two other files,
namely "remove.dic" and "addon.dic", which contain words that are
to be removed from "de.dic" (discovered errors) or to be added to
"de.dic" (missing words) respectively. The base directory of these
three files is the sub-directory "de" of WinEdt's "dict"
directory.

With "de.dic" (also inside "de.zip") come various additional
dictionaries. All are grouped together in the sub-directory
"additional" of the directory "de". Some of the additional
dictionaries do not contain any words, they are just there to be
filled in the future.

The directory structure is as follows: ($WINEDT-DIR$ is the
directory where WinEdt is installed)

$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/main/de.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/main/addon.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/main/remove.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/abbreviations.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/astronomy.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/biology.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/chemistry.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/computer+electronics.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/economics.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/forenames.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/geography.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/geology.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/informatics.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/law.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/main.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/marks.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/mathematics.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/medicine.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/names.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/organizations.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/physics.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/de/additional/unsorted.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/international/geography.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/international/latin.dic
$WINEDT-DIR$/dict/international/marks.dic

At the moment the German dictionary is the only one which
differentiates between a base dictionary and additional
dictionaries. We hope that this may change in the long term.
Compilers of new dictionaries should consider to follow the way we
show here.

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Author of this file:

Colin Marquardt
Ortsstrasse 28
D-07426 Unterschoebling
GERMANY

If you want to contact me please do *not* use my old e-mail address
from earlier dictionary documentations.

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|colin.marquardt@gmx.de|
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or
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|colin.marquardt@gmx.net|
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    will be my valid e-mail address in the foreseeable future.