dictionary program

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Listeros,
	I think I found what I needed. The Macintosh word processor, "Pages"  
has a search function called "Show Search". It opens up a side bar  
with an incremental search box at the top. As you type in letters it  
displays in the sidebar only those words in the document which  
include the letters you specify. Typing in "t, l, a, c, u, a, l, l,  
i" for example, will slowly narrow down the displayed words until  
only "tlacualli" is left in the list. But if you type in "c, u, a",  
for example, it shows all words containing that sequence of letters,  
irregardless of its position in the word. This is handy for locating  
occurrences of morphemes.
	Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
Profesor de lengua y cultura nahua
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas, A.C.
Tacuba 152, int. 47
Centro Histórico
Zacatecas, Zac. 98000
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www.idiez.org.mx
www.macehualli.org





On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Joost Kremers wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>>    I am looking for a dictionary program/utility for Mac OSX that  
>> behaves
>>    like  the English dictionary program that comes with Mac OSX,  
>> but that
>>    will  let  me input data my own data. This program does a  
>> "progressive
>>    search":  if  I  type in the letter "a", a list of all words  
>> beginning
>>    with   "a"  appears.  Then,  if  I  type  the  letter  "b",   
>> the  list
>>    automatically  reduces  itself to all words beginning with  
>> "ab-, etc.,
>>    etc.  What is the technical term for this type of search  
>> behavior, and
>>    where can I find this kind of program?
>
> I have no idea if something like that is available at all. have you  
> tried
> searching Google?
>
> The kind of search you describe is often called "incremental search",
> though. There might be other words for it, but that's the one I  
> hear the
> most.
>
> -- 
> Joost Kremers, PhD
> University of Cologne
> Institute for German Language and Literature
> Albertus Magnus Platz
> 50923 Cologne, Germany
> Tel. +49 221 / 4703807
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