Clex

CLex is a multilingual dictionary/spelling check engine for Macintosh. With CLex you can lookup a word from within any application by pressing Command-ENTER or click at a button of the floating window. The spelling can be checked as you type. That is, you have a single spelling check program no matter you are writing in a word processor or chatting on-line. The floating window is accessible everywhere and lets you turn on/off auto-spelling check and have access to a notebook. You can have more than one spelling dictionaries installed and can arrage the order of them by drag & drop within the list of installed dictionaries. You may also turn on or off a particular dictionary by setting up a spell-check configuration. This is useful if you have to write (or chat) in different language or in different context. A statistical pre-processing can be introduced to 'guess' a most propabable dictionary against which the word should be checked. CLex also supports the basic commands of network dictionary protocal DICT (RFC 2229), so you have access to many freely available dictionaries on the Internet as well. You need Power Mac to use CLex. CLex is a $29 shareware.