home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Ergane 2.1 is a multilingual dictionary programme for Windows. It was develop-
- ed on a 486 with 8 MByte RAM but it seems that a minimal configuration will
- do too.
-
- In order to run Ergane needs at least Windows 3.1. The programme does not need
- any fonts other than a few of the ones included with Windows 3.1
-
- This programme is freeware and the data are free of copyright. There are no
- restrictions on the use of either programme or data.
-
- The executable file is ERGANE.EXE which must be accessible by Windows; it
- needs the following third-party software (included in the ZIP-file) to run:
-
- BRUN300.DLL (Visual Basic 3.0 Runtime module)
- CMDIALOG.VBX
-
- The most appropriate location for these files would be the Windows system
- directory (they may already be installed there for some other Visual Basic 3.0
- application).
-
- All other files, containing the necessary data for Ergane can be put in either
- the same directory as the programme or in a separate data directory. In case
- of a separate directory, the environment table of DOS should contain the va-
- riable ERG that indicates the search path.
-
- E.g.: ERG=C:\ERGANE\DATA
-
- If this variable is not found the programme looks in the current directory
- for the data files.
-
-
-
- It's best to keep all Ergane files (except the the aforementioned three) in a
- special directory because there are more than 400 of them.
-
- Ergane can do the following things:
-
- 1. Translate single words and short expressions from one language to another
- by using Esperanto as an intermediate language.
-
- E.g.
-
- Dutch Esperanto English
-
- aannemen adopti adopt
- akcepti accept, receive, take
- supozi assume, presume, suppose
-
- 2. Find (near) synonyms.
-
- E.g.:
-
- Dutch Esperanto Dutch
-
- aannemen adopti aannemen, adopteren
- akcepti aannemen, accepteren, ontvangen
- supozi aannemen, onderstellen, veronderstellen
-
- 3. Apply limited pattern searching.
-
- E.g.:
-
- English English
-
- h@t hat, hit, hot, hut
- zoo* zoo, zoologist, zoology
-
- 4. Help with learning foreign languages. It can choose a random words from
- language X and the user is then asked to type in the equivalent in language Y.
-
-
- Ergane 2.0 has the following features:
-
- 1. Vocabularies (varying in size from just a few entries to more than 50,000)
- for the following languages:
-
- Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, Modern English, Old English, German, Danish, Dano-Norwegian,
- Swedish, Icelandic, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian,
- Modern Greek, Classical Greek, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Polish, Czech, Serbo-
- Croatian, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Kurdish (*), Maltese, Turkish, Swahili,
- Yoruba, Malay, Indonesian, Maori, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Mandarin (*), Thai, Lao,
- Japanese (*), Papiamentu, Sranan and Zulu.
-
- (*) Romanized
-
- From time to time enlarged vocabularies for these languages and vocabularies
- for new languages will be issued.
-
- 2. Additional phonetic transcriptions in IPA for English, Dutch, Thai and Lao.
-
- 3. An export module for generating trilingual (X-Esperanto-Y) dictionaries in
- ASCII and several 8 bit character sets (CP 437, Windows International, Latin
- 1 and many others).
-
- 4. Language information (geographical distribution, family tree).
-
- 5. Keyboard configuration files that can be modified for use with non-US key-
- boards (French, Russian, etc.)
-
- 6. A concise user manual (UMANUAL.WRI) and a technical manual (TMANUAL.WRI).
-
-
- If you have any information about bugs in the programme or errors in the
- vocabularies you can send an email to:
-
- gvwilgen@worldonline.nl
-
- or a letter to
-
- Gerard van Wilgen
- Tweede Brandenburgerweg 50
- 3721 CJ Bilthoven
- the Netherlands
-
- If you happen to know Esperanto you are also invited to send me contributions
- involving missing words from the vocabularies or even missing languages (pro-
- vided that they can be written using the current version of Ergane's character
- set).
-
-
- Gerard van Wilgen
-
-
-