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.\" $Id: RkDelete.man,v 1.1.1.1 2002/10/19 08:27:44 aida_s Exp $ NEC;
.TH "RKDELETEDIC" "3"
.SH "NAME"
\f4RkDeleteDic\f1 \- delete specified candidates from a dictionary
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.nf
.ft 4
#include <canna/RK.h>
int RkDeleteDic(cxnum, dicname, wordrec)
int cxnum;
char *dicname;
char *wordrec;
.ft 1
.fi
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\f2RkDeleteDic\f1 deletes specified candidates from the dictionary named by \f2dicname\f1.  Specify the word to delete in the character string \f2wordrec\f1, which is written in the format:
.P
.RS
reading   part-of-speech information   kanji candidate
.RE
.P
Writing \f2wordrec\f1, for example, as 
.P
.RS
(HIRAGANA)     #T35     (KANJI)  ...
.RE
.P
will specify a candidate whose part of speech #T35 is defined by the reading "(HIRAGANA)" and whose spelling matches "(KANJI)".
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
This function returns \f40\f1 if successful; otherwise it returns \f4-1\f1.  It also returns \f4-1\f1, without doing anything, if it has been run in a conversion mode context.