Such databases can often be found on government and university web sites. All I need is some kind of public domain database source that I can legally use. My Dictionary plugins, and especially the iPad app, have undergone extensive cleanup and indexing that you won't find in any StartDict version.įinally, I would love to build some similar dictionaries for other languages. I built my dictionaries from the same XDXF sources that the StarDict dictionaries were built from. Plus, if you do happen to be reading anything from the 18th and 19th centuries (there were at least a couple of good books during that time) you are quite likely to encounter old words that will not be found in any modern dictionary.
Any new French words since 1935 are likely to be borrowed from English anyway. These dictionaries from 19 are hardly "useless". There are more modern dictionaries available, but none of them are free and none of them work with the MacOS X Dictionary.app.
It is stand-alone and needs no internet connection. I just released a version for the iPad too.
Add in dictionary for mac install#
You can install the good 'Dictionnaire-AcademieFrancaise'by following this link. Some language modules are also available from third parties. There is a freeware Dictionary development kit available from Apple that is included with the Developer Tools and is located in /Developer/Extras/Dictionary Development Kit. If you came to a word in text copied from a Canadian website and wanted to add it, 'Add to dictionary' would be greyed out. If you set your custom dictionary to English US, that dictionary will be disabled in all the other flavours of English. There is a translator Dashboard widget that comes with Leopard that can do French-English and vise versa, as well as a number of other languages, but it would be nice to have the capability in the Dictionary as well. that specific custom dictionary will accept added words. MacOS X is the same no matter where it is sold and only comes with English and Japanese pre-installed at the present time. Even if you buy a Mac in France, English and Japanese are the only languages available in Dictionary.app.
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