* landed code for viewing topics in a conference, and for adding a topic

(first workout of HTML Checker code)
* modified the dictionary implementation to use a trie system rather than
  a set of HashSets, and also started using a new, much smaller dictionary
* general bugfixes and cleanup on other items as needed

etc/README.dict

@@ -1,28 +1,50 @@
-The file "webster2.dict" was produced from the word lists supplied as "web2"
-and "web2a.gz" in the /usr/share/dict directory of the Debian "miscfiles"
-package (GNU miscfiles version 1.2).  The following commands were used to
-produce this file:
+The file "en-us.dict" is taken from the "american-english" word list supplied
+in the Debian "wenglish" package.  A small amount of processing was used
+to produce this file:
 
-zcat /usr/share/dict/web2a.gz | fgrep -v ' ' > temp.dict
-cat /usr/share/dict/web2 temp.dict | tr '[A-Z]' [a-z]' | sort \
-	| uniq > webster2.dict
-rm temp.dict
+cat /usr/share/dict/american-english | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sort \
+	| uniq > en-us.dict
 
-"webster2.dict" is to be considered "freely redistributable," and is not
+"en-us.dict" is to be considered "freely redistributable," and is not
 subject to the MPL as with the rest of Venice code.  Herewith is the original
-README for the dictionary:
+copyright for the dictionary:
 
---- begin README ---
-#       $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1997/03/26 07:14:32 mikel Exp $
-#       @(#)README      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
+This package is now maintained by Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>.
 
-WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
+I, Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl>, took over the
+wenglish package but I don't know where the list of words is from. If
+it is uptodate or copyrighted or whatever.
 
-Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
-The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier.  The
-supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
-noun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
+This package was debianized by Herbert Xu herbert@debian.org on
+Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:16:50 +1100.
 
-     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
---- end README ---
+It was downloaded from http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/.
 
+Copyright:
+
+Begin2
+Title        = /usr/dict/words for Linux (linux.words)
+Version      = 2
+Desc1        = This is word list containing 45402 words.  Great care has been
+Desc2        = taken to be sure that this word list is free of copyright.
+Desc3        = This list is suitable for English language spelling checkers
+Desc4        = and as a target for look(1).
+Author       = Rik Faith
+AuthorEmail  = faith@cs.unc.edu
+Maintainer   = Rik Faith
+MaintEmail   = faith@cs.unc.edu
+Site1        = ftp.cs.unc.edu
+Path1        = /pub/faith/linux/utils
+File1        = linux.words.2.tar.gz
+FileSize1    = 140k
+Site2        = tsx-11.mit.edu
+Path2        = /pub/linux/docs
+Site3        = sunsite.unc.edu
+Path3        = /pub/Linux/libs
+CopyPolicy1  = Free of non-commercial restrictions.
+CopyPolicy2  = Free for personal, educational, and research purposes.
+Keywords     = dict, dictionary, words, wordlist
+Entered      = Sun Oct 10 19:02:47 1993
+EnteredBy    = Rik Faith
+CheckedEmail = faith@cs.unc.edu
+End

etc/venice-config.xml

@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@
   </email>
 
   <!-- This section dictates which dictionary files get loaded into the spelling checker's
-       main dictionary.  The default lexicon is Webster's 2nd, with a supplemental list of
+       main dictionary.  The default lexicon is a standard US English one, with a supplemental list of
        words provided by Erbo. -->
   <dictionary>
-    <file>/home/erbo/venice/WEB-INF/webster2.dict</file>
+    <file>/home/erbo/venice/WEB-INF/en-us.dict</file>
     <file>/home/erbo/venice/WEB-INF/erbo.dict</file>
   </dictionary>