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- Advanced EnterAct Tweaking Sept 96
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- (Hold down the <Option> key and click in the title bar to access
- the table of contents)
-
- (To set the default file creator you can now use the Options
- dialog in EnterAct.)
-
- § Synonyms and homonyms
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- § Synonyms and homonyms
- EnterAct keeps a table of common synonyms and homonyms in its 'TEXT' 1000
- resource. When you attempt to look up the definition of a term by
- pressing the <Enter> key and no exact match is found in your dictionary,
- one of the first things done is to consult this list for possible
- substitutions that might produce an exact match. For example if you
- typed "AllocMemory" but really meant "AllocateMemory" Enteract would
- still show you the right definition, since substituting "Allocate"
- for "Alloc" from the TEXT 1000 table would produce the name in your
- dictionary.
-
- If you suffer from chronic synonym or homonym substitution, you might
- want to try entering your commonest substitution pairs in EnterAct's
- TEXT 1000 resource--then pressing <Enter> will give you much more
- accurate lookup for those cases.
-
- Here's a bit of 'TEXT' 1000 from the start to give you the flavour:
-
- 1 Ind
- 1 One
- 2 Two
- A Alert
- Acc Accessory
- Accessory Acc
- Add Plus
- Alert A
- Alert Alrt
- Alloc Allocate
- Allocate Alloc
- Allocate Create
- Allocate Init
- Allocate Make
- Allocate Reserve
- Alrt Alert
- ...
- The entries must be in alphabetical order, and each synonym or homonym pair
- is entered twice as you can see above. Each line begins with a name fragment
- that might be present in your source, followed by a tab, then an alternate
- name to try, and finally a return.
-
- If you do add to the TEXT 1000 resource, please remember that you did so when
- you grab the next update for EnterAct. The default resource shipped with EnterAct
- will not change significantly, but it won't have your additions in it!
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