
Re: Helper Program for Translation and Definitions prt1
Making a dictionary and using QTranslate in a text editor:
Since the online translator function should work the same in a text editor as in theWord, I will forego any further discussion concerning that function.
I have decided the easiest way to explain how to make one's own dictionary is simply to modify an existing Dictionary available for QTranslate.
So download at least one Dictionary from the Qtranslate webpage.
Here are a couple of more pictures of Dictionary function in use with my custom Dictionaries.
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First picture I actually took the New Testament put it into the dictionary form, I am unsure how useful this is but just a showing of some things that can be done.
Second picture of course is a Dodson Greek NT Strongs numbers.
I believe this is very useful in retreaving Strongs definitions on the fly.
Format of Qtranslate Dictionary overview:
Easiest way to make a custom dictionary is to modify an existing dictionary.
This works for me, I save a dictionary that I want to put into QTranslate form using UTF8 without BOM with "LF" endings, commonly called "Unix" in EOL settings in Notepad++.
The modified header of my Strongs Dictionary above looks like this for QTranslate.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE xdxf SYSTEM "http://xdxf.sourceforge.net/xdxf_lousy.dtd">
<xdxf lang_from="ENG" lang_to="ENG" format="visual">
<full_name>Strongs</full_name>
<description>Copyright: no copyright</description>
And be sure to Keep the very last line of the file as shown here.
</xdxf>
So you can delete out all the other contents of downloaded dictionary.
After you have prepared your own dictionary material--
Here is the format for the Titles: <ar><k>WG2</k>
So whatever one's imagination can put in titles there. <ar><k>word</k>
Now right before the title line in the preceding line (except the 1st title)
The following tag needs to be at the end of line: </ar>
So it will be:
<ar><k>word</k>
blah blah blah
however many lines
one needs though there may be a limit but I haven't hit it to my knowledge</ar>
<ar><k>nextword</k>
So I leave the very last line of the file as is already found there</ar>
</xdxf>
So one can copy and paste his dictionary material into the original Dictionary
I save the changes in Notepad++ without changing the format or anything else.
The last change is to rename the file manually to whatever one wants as was named in header.
Then inside QTranslate (Options) (Services) (Add Dictionary) and navigate to your dictionary file and have it to install it.
QTranslate works in theWord (both Bible and Book view),Notepad++, Libreoffice and Calc, likely will work in many... though in some Softwares it may not work.
I hope this will help you with your studies and projects.
Dodson Greek here
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