The conversion described here should also work for other dictionaries. I've sent a zipped copy to the original author so it will be available as part of the distribution.This dictionary is obviously designed for use by chemists, in particular organic chemists and it would be really useful to extend this to other scientific or technical dictionaries. I'm not sure but you may need to log out and log back in again to get it to be used by all applications. You now need to copy and paste the reformatted contents of "Chemistry Dictionary" file into "en" and save it to "username/Library/Spelling/en". You can open a folder, and all of the editable files inside it will show up in the sidebar. You can create and work with as many text files as you want and switch between them. A quick find and replace in BBEdit converts one format to the other. Different from most text editors, TextWrangler can be a (text) file container and open many of them at once. In the image below you can see on the left the Microsoft Word version in which every word is followed by the line feed character, ASCII 10 or line feed (LF), in the iWork version a red, upside-down question mark is used. If you open it in a text editor (NOT a word processor) you can see the format for the file, I use BBEdit which also has an option to "view invisibles" non-printed characters (TextWrangler also has this feature). The dictionary used by iWork is "username/Library/Spelling/en", if you have already created a custom dictionary for iWork, you will need to append this dictionary file to the end of your current custom dictionary. I thought it would be useful to convert the dictionary to a format that would be compatible with iWork, (actually I think it is used by all Mac OS X applications).
The original compilation is compatible with Microsoft Office (Windows or Mac), and Open Office (Windows or Linux). TextWrangler pour Windows PC et Mac Écrit par Bare Bones Software, Inc. In his Chemistry Blog azmanam described an absolutley invaluable dictionary of chemical terms he had created consisting of over 100,000 words.
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