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                 Translating dictionary.              

                  1997 David O'Shea of SymbioSyS
                   (Original Windows version by Gerard van Wilgen)
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  This program is supplied 'as is' with no guarantee of its suitability for
  any purpose. I will not be held responsible for any damage occurring through
  the use or misuse of this program.
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  Ergane
  
  
    This was originally a Windows program. Thanks to Gerard van Wilgen for
  writing the original and helping me understand the data file format!
  
    Using this program, you can translate from one language to another, or
  find synonyms, by translating from one language back to itself again. The
  program operates in two modes: exact match and, well, not so exact match!
  If you have exact match turned off, then entering 'light' would find, say,
  'daylight', 'delight', 'delighted', 'enlighten', 'light', etc.

    However, the program runs rather slowly in this mode! In fact, it ran so
  slowly that I made it multitask. Moving the pointer over the output window
  will show you how far it still has to go! You can press ESC to stop the
  search, if it has already found the word you want, or if you get fed up :-)
  
    With exact match on, the program will find what you ask for, or nothing!
  This does mean, however, that it runs much quicker. In fact, you rarely
  have to wait at all, unless there are lots of possible meanings for the
  word in question!
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  Using the program
  

    When loaded, the program will install itself on the iconbar. Clicking
  menu over the icon allows you to choose the script (and keyboard mapping)
  to use. You can also clear the program, which will reduce memory
  requirements to a minimum, emptying all cached data.
  
    If you click select on the icon, the main window, and script windows will
  open. Here you can choose the 'from' and 'to' languages. Clicking menu over
  the actual language icon allows you to get more information on it. At the
  moment, the information window doesn't parse the data very well (read not
  at all!). This will hopefully be fixed (improved at least) in the next
  version. If the caret is in the translate icon, you can click on letters in
  the script window to enter strange characters. The keyboard is also
  redefined, so if you find that you can't type properly, check which script
  you have selected!
  
    If you close the output window, this can be reopened by clicking adjust
  on the iconbar icon. The output window will sometimes fail to update
  properly. Just grab the resize icon and that should fix it. Also, try
  'wiping' over it with another window. This will (hopefully) be fixed in the
  next version.
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  Dictionary data files
  

    You can use the standard Windows Ergane dictionary files, but when
  extracting them, you will have to make a slight change. Say you have the
  Dutch data file, and you want to install it. Just make a directory called
  'Dutch' in the Data directory, and put the files in there, named as their
  extensions. So DUTCH.ES0 would be called ES0 in the directory 'Dutch'. If
  there are .TR? files, you can delete them, since this version of the
  program doesn't use them.
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  Bugs
  
  
    If you find any bugs not mentioned above, please let me know! If I don't
  know about it, I can't fix it, can I?
  
  Bug reports, praise, etc, to: d.oshea@cs.ucc.ie
  
  You can find the latest version on my homepage:
  
                    http://interzone.ucc.ie/99/oshea
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