# HG changeset patch # User Oleksandr Gavenko # Date 1489172550 -7200 # Node ID 88011e33abbdb8b6d856a573ae7ee2498ce3301f # Parent 29aa766ebea4e8dad6ce3b78ad2869c5320bb301 Update project information. Fix grammar. diff -r 29aa766ebea4 -r 88011e33abbd www/README.rst --- a/www/README.rst Thu Mar 09 00:21:31 2017 +0200 +++ b/www/README.rst Fri Mar 10 21:02:30 2017 +0200 @@ -11,19 +11,18 @@ ``gadict`` is EN to EN/RU/UK dictionary. -Also project provides `some linguistic information `_ on English -language. +There is `some linguistic information `_ on English language. -Browse dictionary online: +Look to dictionaries online: * `gadict En-Ru+Uk `_ * `VOA Special English En-En `_ ----- -For term of use visit `LICENSE `_. +Term of use is at `LICENSE `_. -For download and installation instructions visit `INSTALL `_. +Download and installation instructions is available at `INSTALL `_. To report issue just mail me . @@ -40,39 +39,35 @@ Project goals ============= - * Maintain some EN to EN/RU/UK dictionaries. - * Provide all data in most liberal restrictions (public domain). + * Maintain EN to EN/RU/UK dictionaries that cover frequent words. + * Provide structural data on term of public domain. * Supply additional information about English language and tools for creating and maintaining dictionaries. -Target audience -=============== - - * Regular users for using dictionaries and reading articles. - * Dictionary develpers for checking dictionary building and maintaining - techniques. - Project quality =============== -See `statistics `_ on articles count for different dictionaries. +I check spelling of all words with ``ispell``/``aspell`` like programs. -I check spelling and translation of most words with old learning books and -sometimes with free dictionaries. +Pronunciation and translation of most words is cheched using free dictionries, +learning materials and automatic processing with NLP tools. -But *gadict-irregular-verbs-en-ru* dictionary contain mostly all irregular -verbs. +Some articles (especially new one) may have typos. + +See `statistics `_ on articles count for different dictionaries. Project history =============== -Project was born in 2009-06-28 as collection of irregular verbs which I learnt. +Project was started in 2009-06-28 as collection of irregular verbs which I tried +to memorize. Articles was formatted in *Stardict TAB format*. Later project switched to much verbose *C5 dictfmt format*. -*C5 dictfmt format* can't present markup so proprietary was format developed -with writers to different other formats. +*C5 dictfmt format* can't present linguistic markup so proprietary format was +developed. There are writers that produce dictinaries in *dictd format*, *Anki +cards*, HTML form for online access. Software directories ====================