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About gadict.

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``gadict`` is a collection of en-ru dictionaries and some freely available

English thesaurus.

Also project provide some useful information. Check the `sitemap

<index.html#sitemap>`_.

Home page.

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  http://gadict.sourceforge.net/

                Home page.

  http://sourceforge.net/p/gadict/

                SourceForge home page.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gadict

                SourceForge (old look) home page.

Project goals.

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 * Create and maintain good quality EN-RU dictionaries.

 * Host some free dictionaries (to make them available to broad auditory).

 * Provide all data in most liberal restrictions (public domain).

 * Supply additional information about English language and tools for creating

   and maintaining dictionaries.

Target audience.

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 * Regular users for using dictionaries and reading articles.

 * Dictionary develpers for checking dictionary building and maintaining

   techniques.

Project quality.

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Currently dictionaries have very small size and less useful. You can see

`statistics <STAT.html>`_ on articles count.

I check spelling and translation of most words with old learning books and

sometimes with free dictionaries.

But *gadict-irregular-verbs-en-ru* dictionary contain mostly all irregular

verbs.

Project history.

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Project born in 2009-06-28 as collection of irregular verbs which I learn.

It use inconvenient for editing Stardict TAB format. Later project switched to

much verbose C5 dictfmt format.

See LICENSE_ file.

.. _LICENSE: LICENSE.html

Versioning rules.

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We use **major.minor** schema.

Until we reach 5000 words **major** is 0. **minor** updated from time to time.

Getting sources (VCS).

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To clone repository run::

  $ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/gadict/code gadict-hg

To push to repository you must have write permission and do::

  $ hg push ssh://$USER@hg.code.sf.net/p/gadict/code

or::

  $ hg clone https://$USER@hg.code.sf.net/p/gadict/code

Browsing sources.

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  http://hg.code.sf.net/p/gadict/code

                hgweb interface for official repository.

  https://sourceforge.net/p/gadict/code/

                Sourceforge Allure interface for official repository.

Download page.

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  https://sourceforge.net/projects/gadict/files/

                gadict source releases at SourceForge.

Software directory.

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  https://www.ohloh.net/p/gadict

                ohloh home page for gadict

Report bug (BTS).

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Fill bug reports and suggestions in Trac instance by

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gadict/newticket

Don't forget add your email address to ticket *CC* field to be notified on

ticket changes!

Dictionary source file format.

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For source file format used dictd C5 file format. See::

  $ man 1 dictfmt

Shortly:

 * Headwords was preceded by 5 or more underscore characters ``_`` and a blank

   line.

 * All text until the next headword is considered the definition.

 * Any leading ``@`` characters are stripped out, but the file is

   otherwise unchanged.

For convenience also used such assumptions:

 * Headwords was separated by ``;<SPACE>`` (and all was placed on single

   line).

 * UTF-8 encoding was used.

 * Lines started with ``#`` striped out (comment syntax).

 * First line with ``ABOUT:`` used as description of dictionary.

 * First URL (line with ``http://``) used as dictionary home page.

World wide dictionary formats and standards.

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_writing_system

                Dictionary writing system

  http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/mdf.html

                Multi-Dictionary Formatter (MDF). It defines about 100 data

                field markers.

  http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/

                FieldWorks Language Explorer (or FLEx, for short) is designed

                to help field linguists perform many common language

                documentation and analysis tasks.

  http://code.google.com/p/lift-standard/

                LIFT (Lexicon Interchange FormaT) is an XML format for storing

                lexical information, as used in the creation of dictionaries.

                It's not necessarily the format for your lexicon.

  http://www.lexiquepro.com/

                Lexique Pro is an interactive lexicon viewer and editor, with

                hyperlinks between entries, category views, dictionary

                reversal, search, and export tools. It's designed to display

                your data in a user-friendly format so you can distribute it

                to others.

  http://deb.fi.muni.cz/index.php

                DEBII — Dictionary Editor and Browser