Q-DICT
This is a new pointer driven dictionary program, which uses plain text
dictionaries commonly available on the web. The program itself is pointer
driven and lets you enter a word or phrase in one language and it will
search for a translation or meaning. Various types of search are available
(exact match, starting with/ending with/containing a string, unaccented
match, or wildcard search). Search results can be copied to stuffer buffer,
Scrap, file, or sent to a job (e.g. transfer to an editor).
The dictionary format is quite simple, allowing you to build your own
dictionaries or modify these as you see fit - basically plain text with the
entry and meaning separated by a colon or tab character, e.g. house:maison.
This allows them to be used in an editor rather than Q-Dict if you prefer -
they have been converted to use the QL character set and have the standard
QL linefeed as end of line character.
Q-Dict is supplied with a French-English and English-French dictionary as
part of the package and a further 14 language pairs can be downloaded,
including German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish,
Finnish, Welsh and Scots and Irish Gaelic.
Q-Dict needs Ponter Environment, Wman2 (recent SMSQ/E v3.00 or later, or
QDOS with pointer environment 2.00 or later), Toolkit 2, and expanded
memory.
Q-Dict is Freeware. The dictionaries are public domain.
Download the dictionary program and dictionaries from:
http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/diction/index.html
(just scroll down to the Q-Dict section, where you'll find a sample screen
dump from Q-Dict)
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