Look in the Dictionary app, and entries are fine in Dark Mode. But access the same content via Spotlight, and they become unreadable. Why?
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Displaying thumbnails and previews with white text on white background is a good party-trick, but quickly gets tedious.
How to fix custom dictionaries so that they display properly in Dark Mode. Sadly it doesn’t (yet) work for Help books too.
Apple’s choice of headline feature in Mojave, most of the time it works very well. But in some cases, its edges are rough indeed: Dictionary, and emoji.
The macOS Dictionary app may appear dull and unnecessary, but gives offline access to reputable dictionaries completely free of charge.
Dictionaries are valuable, perhaps vital for working with property lists, but seldom as flat as examples suggest. Here are some nested examples in real code.
What OS X and browser support is there for Scottish Gaelic and other Celtic tongues?
Like so many of David Crystal’s books, “Words in Time and Place” is seriously addictive, and essential for anyone with the slightest interest in the English language.
Before the Boston Tea Party, the few precious official copies of Johnson’s dictionary in the American lands were destroyed in commando-style raids, leading to the War of Independence.
Greg Pierce at Agile Tortoise has now released a free OS X dictionary based on WordNet, which effectively brings Terminology to your Mac.