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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue May 15, 2001 3:19 pm Subject: Re: QUESTION: Formatting SW dictionaries? Part 3 | ||||||||||||||||
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May 15, 2001 QUESTION: Can I format SW4.4 dictionaries differently, so the glosses or word-descriptions are on top of the signs, or to the side? ANSWER, Part 3: Converting Dictionaries to Sign Documents SignWriter Dictionary Files are not the same as SignWriter documents. Documents are called .SGN files, and are printed inside the SignWriter program. Although Dictionary Files are created and edited in SignWriter, after they are created, they are managed and printed with another separate program called the Dictionary Manager. You will find the Dictionary Manager Program in your SW directory. It is called DICT.EXE. Most of the time, you will want to print dictionaries the official way, using the DICT program. There is one exception. You may have special formatting needs. Perhaps you would like to create dictionaries in an unusual format, or perhaps you would like to do a large editing job on the dictionary, and prefer to work with documents in a big window. In cases like these, a Dictionary File can be converted to a Document File. Then you can go into the document and change things for special formatting needs. The converted document can then be printed inside SignWriter, without using the DICT program. To Convert SignWriter Dictionary Files to Sign Documents: 1. Quit SignWriter. You are now in MS-DOS in the SW directory. 2. Type dict and press Enter. This starts the Dictionary Manager program. 3. Type c for Convert. 4. Type the name of the dictionary you wish to convert, and then press Enter. Here is an example of how your screen might look in MS-DOS. The dictionary we are converting, in this example, is named "verbs": | ||||||||||||||||
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