Re: Dictionary Programs?

Zesefde Peter Clark  <peter-clark@...> ta 2002.08.28. her 14:04:00 -5h:

> On Wednesday 28 August 2002 07:32, Mau Rauszer wrote:
> > I've recently surfed looking for a dictionary creating program and I found
> > a very nice one, called Quick Lookup. It allows HTML content so even you
> > can use different fonts and so on. It uses mxd format - well i don't know
> > if that's only used by this program - and only a 600k exe file! You can
> > edit manually the word adding notes or etymology.
>         It certainly looks nice, but it has several strikes against it. Both
> the code
> and the format are proprietary, which means that you can neither expand the
> program to do more (or hire someone to do it for you) and your dictionary is
> locked into one form that cannot be converted to another or altered except
> by
> the original program itself. I've learned the hard way that this is the most
> important part about data files: if the data is not saved either as text or
> in some standard form, it's quite possible, indeed, almost certain that
> within five to ten years, that data will no longer be accessable to you. As
> far as I can tell, the mdx format is their own invention. Lastly, it doesn't
> run on Linux or Mac, and the dictionary maker runs only on Windows.
>         :Peter
HM. Yeah, you're right. I'm probably just diddling with that and will find something better.

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