NAME¶
goldendict - a feature-rich dictionary lookup program
SYNOPSIS¶
goldendict
DESCRIPTION¶
Goldendict is a cross-platform and international dictionary written in
QT.
Features¶
- •
- Use of WebKit for an accurate articles' representation, complete with all
formatting, colors, images and links.
- •
- Support of multiple dictionary file formats, namely:
- •
- Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources
- •
- StarDict .ifo/.dict./.idx/.syn dictionaries
- •
- Dictd .index/.dict(.dz) dictionary files
- •
- ABBYY Lingvo .dsl source files, together with abbreviations. The files can
be optionally compressed with dictzip. Dictionary res-urces can be packed
together into a .zip file.
- •
- ABBYY Lingvo .lsa/.dat audio archives. Those can be indexed separately, -r
be referred to from .dsl files.
- •
- Support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other MediaWiki-based sites to
perform lookups in.
- •
- Ability to use arbitrary websites as dictionaries via templated Url
patterns.
- •
- Hunspell-based morphology system, used for word stemming and spelling
suggestions.
- •
- Ability to index arbitrary directories with audio files for pronunciation
lookups.
- •
- Full Unicode case, diacritics, punctuation and whitespace folding. This
means the ability to type in words without any accents, correct case,
punctuation or spaces (e.g. typing 'Grussen' would yield 'gruessen' in
German dictionaries).
- •
- Scan popup functionality. A small window pops up with the translation of a
word chosen from another application.
- •
- Support for global hotkeys. You can spawn the program window at any point,
or directly translate a word from the clipboard.
- •
- Tabbed browsing in a modern Qt 4 interface.
LICENSE¶
Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Konstantin Isakov ikm@users.berlios.de
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
HOMEPAGE¶
http://goldendict.berlios.de/
BUGREPORTS¶
For bugreports into upstream use forum
<
http://goldendict.berlios.de/forum>.
If You use goldendict under Debian, You can submit a bugreport upto Debian-BTS.
For additional information use the link: <
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.
This manpage was written by Dmitry E. Oboukhov unera@debian.org for Debian
project.