Offline dictionary StarDict - other alternatives?

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Hi all,

does anyone know a free offline dictionary software, which is either
expandable with - also available - dictionaries or comes with dics for
german-english and english-german?

I'm still searching for alternatives, although I already found a nice
one: StarDict. Maybe this is interesting for someone else, too.

StarDict - http://stardict.sourceforge.net/

Bye,
klagol
 
Hi all,

does anyone know a free offline dictionary software, which is either
expandable with - also available - dictionaries or comes with dics for
german-english and english-german?

I'm still searching for alternatives, although I already found a nice
one: StarDict. Maybe this is interesting for someone else, too.
Click to expand...

I've been looking for an expandable German-English dictionary myself.
StarDict - http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
Click to expand...

I went there and had a look, but couldn't even figure out what to
download. According to Star Downloader, the executable is 13KB!

The documentation page says to look in the source tarball, unless you
can read Chinese, then there's another site. Where is the
German-English dictionary, and how large is it? How do you expand the
dictionary? Can you import word lists?
 
Hi,
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:51:31 +0200, klagol



I went there and had a look, but couldn't even figure out what to
download. According to Star Downloader, the executable is 13KB!
Click to expand...

There's a big heading "Downloading" in the white field in the middle of
the page. Below are "Main Program", "Command line version" and at least
the "Windows edition". It's size is about 565K. It's a sourceforge
download. I experienced problems with sourceforge downloads and download
managers like Star Downloader in the past. Maybe you shouldn't use Star
Downloader ...
Where is the
German-English dictionary, and how large is it? How do you expand the
dictionary? Can you import word lists?
Click to expand...

Ok, above the white field mentioned above there's a grey field. This one
contains links, right below the big heading "StarDict 2.4.3". The second
entry is "Dictionaries". When clicking on this, an new page opens (to be
safe, here's the link: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php
). After that you can see a second link bar below the first, in which
you clicked "Dictionaries" before. There you can reach different dics
from different sources (archived in RPM oder tar.bz2; I downloaded
tar.bz2. No prob for IZArc). They are in special StarDict format, ready
for being copied into the program folder.

Don't know, wether you can import word lists. This one looks good, but
not perfect, that's why I'm still searching for alternatives :-)

I hope that helps,
klagol
 
Hi,


There's a big heading "Downloading" in the white field in the middle of
the page. Below are "Main Program", "Command line version" and at least
the "Windows edition". It's size is about 565K. It's a sourceforge
download. I experienced problems with sourceforge downloads and download
managers like Star Downloader in the past. Maybe you shouldn't use Star
Downloader ...
Click to expand...

Thanks for the help. I finally got it with Star downloader after
flailing about for ten minutes. Seems there's no simple way to turn
Star Down off...
Ok, above the white field mentioned above there's a grey field. This one
contains links, right below the big heading "StarDict 2.4.3". The second
entry is "Dictionaries". When clicking on this, an new page opens (to be
safe, here's the link: http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php
). After that you can see a second link bar below the first, in which
you clicked "Dictionaries" before. There you can reach different dics
from different sources (archived in RPM oder tar.bz2; I downloaded
tar.bz2. No prob for IZArc). They are in special StarDict format, ready
for being copied into the program folder.
Click to expand...

OK, I got the German-English module with IE after telling Star
Downloader to ignore the link (strangely, this tactic never worked
with Sourceforge).
Don't know, wether you can import word lists. This one looks good, but
not perfect, that's why I'm still searching for alternatives :-)

I hope that helps,
klagol
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Yep, thanks. My problem is that I need to get some fairly big
technical word lists into a German_English dictionary, and I sure
don't want to do it all word by word. I'm looking for an open source
dictionary that using a simple input format so that groups of users
can share the work of creating new word lists.

The technical words I'm looking to input first are German hunting
terms. The task is complicated by the fact that most of these words
have no single-word English equivalents, and must be translated by
using lengthy phrases.
 
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