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Old 03-07-2014, 10:44 PM   #29
tomsem
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The bad news (for PW1 owners): dictionaries no longer 'cascade' with the latest update. Let's say I had 2 or 3 English dictionaries. Before if it didn't find a word in the default dictionary it would continue to search in the others before giving up. Now it only searches the default and you have to select a different dictionary manually and hope the word is in there.

So they have broken a couple of use cases:
1 - using a translation dictionary, and automatically falling back to non translating dictionary when lookup in the translation dictionary fails
2 - adding definitions for foreign or specialized words and phrases (e.g. Latin, medical or legal terms) that are not found in the default dictionary by adding one or more supplemental dictionaries.

Is this behavior something that works, or worked, on PW2?
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