GOLDENDICT(1)
NAME
goldendict - a feature-rich dictionary lookup program
SYNOPSIS
goldendict
DESCRIPTION
Goldendict is a cross-platform and international dictionary written in
QT.
Features
- o Use of WebKit for an accurate articles' representation, complete
- with all formatting, colors, images and links.
- o Support of multiple dictionary file formats, namely:
o Babylon .BGL files, complete with images and resources- o StarDict .ifo/.dict./.idx/.syn dictionaries
- o Dictd .index/.dict(.dz) dictionary files
- o 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.
- o ABBYY Lingvo .lsa/.dat audio archives. Those can be indexed
separately, -r be referred to from .dsl files.
- o Support for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other MediaWiki-based
- sites to perform lookups in.
- o Ability to use arbitrary websites as dictionaries via templated Url
- patterns.
- o Hunspell-based morphology system, used for word stemming and
- spelling suggestions.
- o Ability to index arbitrary directories with audio files for
- pronunciation lookups.
- o 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). - o Scan popup functionality. A small window pops up with the
- translation of a word chosen from another application.
- o Support for global hotkeys. You can spawn the program window at any
- point, or directly translate a word from the clipboard.
- o 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.