Re: French-English Dictionary...

Glen Wilson (Glen_Wilson@akamail.com)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:25:42 GMT

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:34:39 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>Glen_Wilson@akamail.com wrote>
>
>c/ Would it be possible to use the Bindary program to make a book that
>has these characters in it? This would probably be the way to go but
>can you search using the Book reader program?
>
>Any ideas??
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>Do you know the format of this document ( Word Perfect, Word Star, etc...) ?
>Just import it into Bindery.
It is a standard ASCII file, it can be imported into Winword or Excel
without loosing the Accents.
I don't yet have the Bindery program, is it still available?
>URW Sans & URW Mono fonts both support these characters ( as reported by the
>Character Map application).
>The Book Reader can search a word by using the Find [F2] button.
>( Make sure you provide this tool in the Book Launcher ).
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>I would like to add a comment to the above:
>If this file is too huge to import into Bindery; use a file splitter program
>to break it down into smaller files (first convert it to plain ascii text).
>Then import each separate file into Bindery. The Character Map application
>can be use within Bindery to make it a breeze to re-insert the Foreign
>characters back into the document. Breadbox FontMagick has a similar tool.
It is only 93K in size (.txt file) and contain the french word a tab
then the English meaning, pretty simple but not bad, it contains just
over 4000 lines of info.
>Byron
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>Byron Collins
>Kentucky, USA
>http://members.aol.com/byronc0141/index.htm
>Emporium of Book Reader Titles.
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