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HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN DICTIONARIES 

File format in very simple. First of all, lines started with an '#' are comments and just silently ignored. All non-ASCII characters must be in UTF-8 encoding.

Then there are two main sections in the source file - header and articles.

Header defines such a parameters as dictionary languages, copyright and so on. All header lines are between <header> and </header> tags and in our example are:

title = Sample 1 test dictionary -  dictionary name;
copyright = GNU Public License - copyright information;
version = 0.1 - version;
w_lang = en - language for words;
a_lang = fi - language for articles.

Articles section is right after header. It contains all the words in your dictionary. Each word/article pair allocates exactly one line in the following format:

word___article
namely word itself, then three underscore characters then article.

Articles section also supported <br> and <p> tags for line break and <t></t> tags for transcription.

Example .sdct file:

<header>
title = Dictionary base name
copyright = GNU Public License
version = 1.0
w_lang = en
a_lang = de
</header>
#
#
#
abacus___helmitaulu
abandon___heitteille luopua
abandonment___hylkaaminen
abate___heiketa, talttua
#

As far as you've prepared source dictionary file it's time to compile it.


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