Dictionary 2000 Faq.

Abput & Architecture
Dictionary 2000 is a dictionary program wich can translate between any of 
the supported languages .Now English,French,German,Russian,Polish,Latin,Swedish, 
Norwegian,Portuguese,Spanish,Italian languages avalable and possible to translate from 
any to any of this languages.Your distribution may have less dictionaries , but you can
download them:surf.to/stepanyuk.The architecture of program is so that when you add 
for example Spanish word using English translation this word will be automaticaly 
connected with all dictionaries and will be avalable as a translation and source 
when you translate to Spanish from any language or to any language from Spanish. 
Words in different dictionaries are connected via numerical cofficients.
The dictionary is freeware now , you can download it from surf.to/stepanyuk.
Beta versions :
The first version appeared in May 99 ,were English,French,German,Spanish,
Latin languages were avalable.
Version 2.Russian and Portugeese appeared.All other improoved.
Version 3.Swedish , Norwegian , Polish languages appeared.Adding/Deleting 
words feature.Possibility to change fonts and charsets.Faster speed.
Version 3.2 Some bugs fixed.
Version 3.3 Some bugs fixed.
Version 3.5 .More closest words output.All dictionaries improved.
Version 4/4.01.Lastest.First non beta version.
Anyway visit http://surf.to/stepanyuk for lastest fixes & updates.
 
Translating words
To translate word you must select dictionaries,enter word , and press "Translate" 
button. If word you entered is unknown to program you will get closest word to input.
Then you will get one or few translations.To change direction to contraty press "Reverse" .

Adding / Deleting words
There are two ways of adding words.You can click add/delete item from Dictionary 
menu item and add or delete words and translations manualy,separated by comma 
and then press Add or Delete button .The second way is translating text dictionary to 
Dictionary 2000 .dic format.Text file must have special format. 
new words : translations ,or 
translations : new words 
New words and translations must be separated by comma , also you may use "Tab" 
character instead of " : '.Also there is a special rules for european characters.They 
must be written in windows charset , or you may use such a rule : If a letter has some 
character after it it will be followed with it. 
Characters : 
~ Letter will have tilde above it 
/ - Accent 
\ - Accent 
. - Umlaut (:) 
If you have a such format text dictionary you must set "Add from text mode atribute" 
wich shows wich word is first (new or translation) and press "Add from text button" , 
select this text file , and those words will be added to your dictionary. 
Anyway , if you use any of this two ways all new words will be connected with all 
avalable dictionaries and will be avalable as a translations and sources. 

Changing font / charset settings.
You can change font and charset settings for any avalable dictionaries.It is not 
recomended to do it if you have no problems with fonts in this program.When 
you executed this dialog , select needfull dictionary , and click on the edit near 
dictionary field , you will get "Font dialog".Select font and charset , press Ok 
button.Then you can do three things : Press "Apply" button to apply changes , 
press "Default" button to return to default values , or exit this dialog. 

Contacts :
Please report all errors , tell me about any bugs wich you found in the program , 
tell your comments,suggestions , ideas.I whant to thank everybody who tested , 
who helped with material and specialy Guennady Kulifeev for help with Spanish 
and Portugeese languages , Vladimir Fofanov for help with English-Russian dire-
ction , to Josh Kaminsky. 

Mail : 
stepanyuk@mail.ru 
If you whant to help "Dictionary 2000" project 
and if you have dictionaries in text form or any other popular  format  , send them 
to : dict2000@mail.ru , gast@sols347.phys.msu.su .Please send you message to
both of this two addresses.

Http : 
http://surf.to/stepanyuk 
(C) Stepanyuk Oleg.