- Dictunifier Dictionary Conversion Tool For Macbook Pro
- Dictunifier Dictionary Conversion Tool For Macs
Dictunifier Dictionary Conversion Tool For Macbook Pro
Thanks for the post about my dictionary. I just released a version for the iPad too. It is stand-alone and needs no internet connection. It also includes the 1835 dictionary.
From the developer: Mac Dictionary Kit is a collection of tools to help convert and build dictionaries on Mac OS X platform. The source dictionary could be in any format, but we only support stardict format at present. The target dictionary must be Dictionary 2.0 format defined in Mac OS X 10.5. Unit-Converter — Maybe one day the United States will switch to the Metric System. Until then, this widget can be used to quickly translate the values from the American System to the Metric System — or vise-versa! Dictionary — This widget allows you to quickly search a large English lexicon of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Dictunifier Dictionary Conversion Tool For Macs
DictUnifier Mac Dictionary Kit is a collection of tools to help convert and build dictionaries on Mac OS X platform. The source dictionary could be in any format, but we only support stardict format at present. The target dictionary must be Dictionary 2.0 format defined in Mac OS X 10.5. HOWTO: Change Mac OS X’s Default Spelling Dictionary Language Excuse My Spelling, My Dictionary is set to American English! Well, over on the U.S. Side of the Atlantic it isn’t such a big problem but over here in Europe all to often the Mac OS X spelling dictionary language is set to U.S. English by default.
There are more modern dictionaries available, but none of them are free and none of them work with the MacOS X Dictionary.app. These dictionaries from 1935 and 1835 are hardly 'useless'. Any new French words since 1935 are likely to be borrowed from English anyway. Plus, if you do happen to be reading anything from the 18th and 19th centuries (there were at least a couple of good books during that time) you are quite likely to encounter old words that will not be found in any modern dictionary.
I built my dictionaries from the same XDXF sources that the StarDict dictionaries were built from. My Dictionary plugins, and especially the iPad app, have undergone extensive cleanup and indexing that you won't find in any StartDict version.
Finally, I would love to build some similar dictionaries for other languages. All I need is some kind of public domain database source that I can legally use. Such databases can often be found on government and university web sites. You need to be able to speak the language in order to track them down and French is the only language I know well enough to research.