2003-03-25

Nannoplankton Dictionary Readme

This Excalibur dictionary is complied from the free Nannoplankton
dictionary released by The International Nannoplankton Association
<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/index.html>.  A copy of their
original dictionary file can be downloaded from
<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/dictionary.htm>.  To quote from
their site:

"What I have done here is to produce a dictionary file from a listing
of most nannofossil and extant nannoplankton combinations. It includes
species names, generic names, and authors. I then added some higher
taxa and descriptive terminology words to give a total of about 3000
words.  The file can then be used to supplement the regular dictionary
of your word processor or email program so that it no longer complains
about every nannofossil name it encounters."

Version history:

25/03/03 - v1.00 Straight conversion of the INA's nannos.dic file to
an Excalbibur dictionary. No changes except for capitalized words and
hyphenated words (Baldi-Beke become two separate words in Excaliburb s
dictionary - Baldi and Beke). Unfortunately there is no way to change
Excaliburb s handling of capitalized or hyphenated words. So
Ahmuellerellaceae is treated the same as ahmuellerellaceae; and while
Baldi misspelled (Baldo for example) would be flagged by Excalibur,
Baldi-Bannes would not be, as Bannes is also in the dictionary file.