thanks once again to michael and louise :)

On Dec 13 2007, 4:43 pm, mkengel <mken...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the real
value I feel will be in the dictionaries I will provide with the
program. I plan to spend more than twenty times the effort I did
writing the program, on entering characters, phrases, idioms, etc. in
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

What advantage/value will your dictionaries have when comparing them
with dictionaries like EDICT (J-E), WaDoku (J-G), CC-CEDICT (Ch-E) and
HanDeDict (Ch-G) ?
What differences will you implement ?

Thank you
Michael

Michael:
After some time I've come to the conclusion that the advantage/value
will not be in having a separate dictionary but in the power to define
your own dictionary. I suppose I could program the ability to import
existing dictionaries. So I wanted to say thanks for leading me in
this direction. Along these lines I have written an export module
which writes certain components of data (such as the dictionary alone;
or the tag system alone, or the shortcuts/IME system, etc). The
program can (naturally) import it's own exported data (you would want
to do this to share taglists (wordlists) or shortcuts for certain
languages for instance). The work would be in adding support for
existing dictionaries. For example CEDICT (http://www.mdbg.net/
cedictwiki/) as you mentioned. CEDICT has published their format so it
should be very easy to support using that dictionary if you don't wish
to either make your own or use the one I might distribute with the
program.

This actually solves a huge problem for me - by incorporating the
ability to either import or natively use existing free dictionaries
*and* allowing the user to make their own, I no longer have to worry
about bundling some kind of dictionary with the program (which would
be an incredible amount of work actually).. It also seems to be what
users would want, as the existing dictionaries are relatively complete
and accurate, one would assume.

Louise:
You were absolutely right. I created a fast flashcard quiz similar to
what you see in anki and stackz and it's definately fun. Quiz-style
(i.e. multiple choice and stackz' mix-and-match quiz type for
instance) are also in, and you can use those if you like as well.
Making it an option was very good advice indeed. I should be paying
you for this (but alas I already sealed the envelope ;)

To the newsgroup and esp. michael and louise:
As it turns out the program is almost done. I wouldn't torture you
wonderful people with a request to beta test it or anything, but I
would like to offer you all a free full copy of the program should you
be interested in it, no strings attached. It would be in the form of a
cd-key, and you would be free to use it or not; if you are interested
in this just send me an e-mail (or post here if you're paranoid about
emails) from the account you use to post to this group after you've
installed the program and I will give you your CD key. If not no
worries but I think it would be a cool way to say thanks.

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