i2e1x

Usage

Usage

Selecting a word with the mouse in any aplication is all that's needed, i2e will translate it.

The word can also be introduced at the prompt line, and you only have to push "Translate" button.

The direction of the translation can be changed from English>Spanish or Spanish>English by selecting the top left button. When you choose a direction and exit, the direction is remembered and i2e will start up in that mode.

In either case, Page Up and Page Down keys will move the translation text.

Files

/usr/bin/i2e

binary file for X11

/usr/bin/i2e-cli

binary file for text mode

/usr/share/i2e/i2e.dict

Translation dictionary used by all i2e programs.

/usr/X11R6/man/man1/i2e.1x.gz

English manual page

/usr/share/man/es/man1/i2e.1.gz

Spanish manual page

/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/i2e.mo

messages uttered by i2e and i2e-cli in Spanish

~/.i2erc

where buttons status is kept

~/.i2e.dict

where added up words are

Warning

When adding words to the dictionary (button "Learn") it should be taken into account that when a word allows several different translations, they should be learned separately.

For example, 'hola' can be translated as 'hi' or as 'hello', so, in order to add 'hola' to the dictionary with both translations, 'hola' and 'hi' should be learnt first and then 'hola' and 'hello'.

Acknowledgements

i2e was inspired by the program eidic.tcl (available at http://www.lcc.uma.es/personal/trivino/trivino.html) by José Luis Triviño <[email protected]> from which the words database is taken (and modified).

I thank Miquel Collado <[email protected]>, for his comments on the source code.

I also thank Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <[email protected]> for translating the README file and man page into English, and for reviewing my translation into English of the messages uttered by i2e and i2e-cli

I also get on my knees in groveling, abject obsequiousness and kiss the feet of the Unix-and-English-Translation God Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]>, without whose brilliant English-usage insights and very humble nature, this document would otherwise have had to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

I thank Miquel Sergio Ahumada Navea <[email protected]>, for building an .rpm package.

I thank José M. Macías <[email protected]> and Ricardo Villalba <[email protected]> for their comments on making i2e more comfortable to use.

Thanks to all of them!

Download

Last version of i2e can be downloaded from http://darkd.virtualave.net