How to make  JSlovo database:

  1. First, you have to prepare the JSlovo database. You can download many text files with the dictionaries which can be converted to JSlovo database format if you will go to http://www.dicts.info/. They all should be compatible with JSlovo, since they use "word<tab>word2" format. In order to use them with JSlovo, you should copy a few lines at the very top of each text file:
  2. <name of this file without the extention>
    # this is a comment
    #
    ?jslovo-shortname | put here short name  of the dictionary
    ?jslovo-fullname   | put here more information, license etc.
    #
    # comes the rest of the file

    For example, if you downloaded "english-german.txt", put at the very beginning these lines:

    english-german
    #
    # this is just comment
    ?jslovo-shortname | English-German
    ?jslovo-fullname  | English-German free dictionary

    See also an example in "doc/example.dic". The user can use HTML tags in the text files. The selected dictionary should be in UTF-8 format, with one translation per line and words separated by tabulator or "|".

  3. Then open this file using JSlovo (Open "Tools-Make database-open"). Make sure that the file has the extension ".dic" or ".tex". After opening this file, you should see the progress bar and some messages about the status of converting the text file into the database. Usually, for 50k raws, it takes 10 seconds. The database will have the extension ".jdic" and will be copied to "jslovo/dbase" directory
  4. If you have problems with the database, just unzip the created file (unzip file.jdic) and check what is inside.
  5. Then restart JSlovo. This will make the database available for the user. You can select any number of databases using JSlovo GUI.