The KVocTrain Handbook

Ewald Arnold <ewald@ewald-arnold.de>

Reviewer: Eric Bischoff
Revision 0.8.1 (2002-10-08)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

This handbook describes KVocTrain version 0.8.0. KVocTrain is a little utility to help you train your vocabulary, when you are trying to learn a foreign language.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
What is it?
2. Usage
Overview
Inline editing
Using the keyboard
Using the mouse
Working on selections
Available file formats
Available word types
About charsets, encodings, unicode and such strange things
And how should I learn?
3. The Menubar
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Vocabulary Menu
The Learn Menu
The Options Menu
The Help menu
Table header menu
4. Dialogs
Document properties dialog
General properties
Lesson descriptions
Type descriptions
Tenses
Usage labels
Document options
Language properties dialog
Options dialog
General options
Available languages
Table View
Clipboard
Query options dialog
Option groups
General query options
Query thresholds
Blocking and expiring
Entry dialog
General properties
Additional properties
Suggestions for a multiple choice query
Additional properties for verbs
Additional properties for adjectives
Properties from or to the original
Docking to the main window
Query dialogs
Normal random query
Random query with multiple choice
Query of conjugations
Query of articles
Query of comparison forms
Query of synonyms, antonyms, paraphrases and example sentences.
Document statistics dialog
General
All languages in the dictionary
5. Dictionaries
Contributing a dictionary to KVocTrain
Other dictionaries on the web
Translator applications
6. Interesting links
Similar projects
Other interesting links
7. Credits and License
Thanks
Copyright
A. Installation
How to obtain kvoctrain
Requirements
Compilation and installation