The source text of a DSL dictionary is a plain text file
(*.txt), either in UNICODE or in ANSI encoding.
A DSL dictionary is made up of dictionary entries. An entry
(card) has a heading (this can be a word or
a phrase) and a body, which contains translations and comments. If
a dictionary is added to the Lingvo Bookshelf, all of its card
headings are displayed in the word list. Clicking a word or phrase
in the word list, opens the dictionary card which displays the
corresponding entry.
ABBYY Lingvo Multilingual Electronic Dictionary supports
dictionaries not only in Russian but also in other European
languages (for the full list of supported languages, see the
Supported Languages section).
The source and target languages of
the dictionary must be specified in the DSL file. Therefore, at the
beginning of each DSL file you need to specify the name of your
dictionary (#NAME "dictionary name"), its source language
(#INDEX_LANGUAGE "language name") and its target language
(#CONTENTS_LANGUAGE "language name").
Ex.: If you wish to create an English-Russian dictionary
named "General", type the following at the beginning of the DSL
file:
If your dictionary consists of several files, use the #INCLUDE
command to merge the files into one dictionary. Specify the full
path to the file after a space or tabulation character. In the DSL
language the back slash character "\" indicates that the character
following it is text rather than a tag, so you have to use double
slashes "\\" in the path to the file. Ex.:
#INCLUDE "C:\\Dictionaries\\UniverseE.dsl"
Additionally, you can specify paths relative to the folder where
the main DSL file (i.e. the file containing the #INCLUDE
command) is located. In this case specify either the file name
without the path or put a full stop (".") at the beginning of the
path. Ex.:
#INCLUDE "UniverseE.dsl"
#INCLUDE ".\\includes\\UniverseE.dsl"
Note:
If the dictionary text was typed in ANSI encoding, you must
specify the code page for the source text, i.e. add a code page tag
after the target language and source language tags:
#SOURCE_CODE_PAGE "code page name".
Allowed code page names:
Allowed code page name
Windows code page number
Latin
1252
Cyrillic
1252
EasternEuropean
1250
If you save the text of the dictionary in ANSI encoding, make
sure that the dictionary source and target languages are supported
by the same code page. If there is no such code page, save the
dictionary in UNICODE.
If you save the text of the dictionary in UNICODE, you don't
have to specify the code page.
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