dictionary

Juan Montoya th3pr0ph3t at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 05:01:17 BST 2010


El vie, 24-09-2010 a las 22:42 +0200, Jan Claeys escribió:
> Op woensdag 22-09-2010 om 17:08 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Marion
> Peterreins:
> > I've been using ubuntu 10.4 with Orca 2.30.2 for several weeks now.
> > I tried to use the standard dictionary of gnome and the following 
> > problem occured:
> > I can only use the monolingual english dictionary but  don't know how
> > to add other dictionaries like English German for instance.
> > Where do I find the list of dictionaries and how can I choose them? 
> 
> The user interface for this tool is quite confusing...
> 
> I am not sure my description that follows is useful for you (I'm not
> blind, so somewhat difficult to imagine), so feel free to ask if I fail.
> 
> At the right side of the window there is a sidebar where you can choose
> to show 4 different types of information.  The sidebar can be
> shown/hidden with the F9 key (in case you can't find it, that might be
> the reason.
> 
> One of the sidebar panels lists all the available databases on the
> currently selected dictionary server (those panels can be selected from
> a drop-down at the top of the sidebar panel, and the default panel is
> named something like "Similar words").  If you double-click on one
> database, or you press enter while it's selected, that database will be
> used for searches.
> 
> Note: a "database" in this context just means a specific dictionary,
> e.g. something like "English-German Freedict dictionary".
> 
> I hope this helps...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jan Claeys
> 
> 

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