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Some sort of database for translations?

Xere — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:34:17 -0800

Is there any sort of freeware program (online, installed on computer, php, mysql, anything) for me to save phrases in English, and then their translation in a certain language? In some kind of tidy, tabled format? I tried a wiki but I quickly tired of formatting each entry in order to produce a tidy table. Ideally, I'd like to be able to just plug in the phrases and go.

Wanted: personal dictionary

poorlydrawnplato — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:24:34 -0800

I'm looking for a piece of software, either for my Mac or online: I'm a philosophy major, and there's a huge number of thinkers, schools of thought, and concepts to manage in the area. What I want, ideally, is something that holds terms and definitions and allows me to drag them into categories (i.e. a page for poststructuralist writers.) Tags are better than hierarchies because I want each term to appear in several areas. I'm sure something exists but I don't know what to call it to do a good search. (I already use Evernote for notes and it might roughly work, although I really want something more focused and lightweight.) (I hope this is different enough from this other question, which is pretty far from what I want.)

Boot to the head . . . in Spanish

Joleta — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:41:37 -0800

Looking for an English-Spanish martial arts glossary. I can't seem to find an online English-Spanish martial arts glossary or dictionary. Mr. Joleta has several Spanish-speaking students in his taekwondo class and would like to communicate better with them. Does anyone know of an online list (or a book he could buy) that will help specifically with common terms used in the martial arts? He'd like to be able to say things like "Move your left foot forward" as well as have translations for kick, punch, front, side, roll, various parts of the body, etc. He doesn't need to say things like "front snap kick" in Spanish, though, as there are already a perfectly good Korean terms that everyone learns regardless of their native language.

Terminology Management software solutions

gemmy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:28:45 -0800

Software for keeping lists of terms and definitions organized? Help me tame the glossary monster. My work publishes several sector-specific reports each quarter, containing updates on what's been happening in that sector and in the market. These reports also contain a "glossary" with definitions/descriptions - like brief bios of the people mentioned in the report, acronym definitions, and explanations of specific terms used in the text. There is substantial overlap with the terms used, both between sectors and over time. The full glossaries have so far been stored in a flat Word file for each report - split up by sector - and the lists get updated each quarter. This has worked OK for a while, but the lists have now become unwieldy. There is also a lot of differences in wording between sector versions.

I am looking for some recommendations for software that might help me keep the terms and their definitions organized in one place - with just one entry per term (that would help with consistency across sectors). However, I also need to be able to export subsets of the definitions for use in our reports. I looked online and found AnyLexic, which seems like it might be along the lines of what I'm looking for. So I'd also like to know if anyone has experience with this particular program.

-Windows 2000/XP environment
-Need to be able to export a subset of definitions to Word/Excel or CSV.
-Reasonably priced for a non-profit

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

How do I create an online glossary?

imposster — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:09:01 -0800

How do I create an online glossary? I'm currently using Excel and exporting to html within the program. The results are less than stellar.
It would be nice if I could keep the data in CSV format (or something else) so that I could edit it on a spreadsheet. It works fine with searching for terms via the browser and there aren't enough entries to make elaborate search functions necesarry. Does anyone have a recommendation? Freeware program? CSS solution?

Poster seeks poster.

vernondalhart — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:38:36 -0800

I'm looking for a poster that used to hang in my grandmother's kitchen. It was a poster that listed a number of cooking terms: Julienne, blanch, pare, skewer, dice, etc. Each term was accompanied by a medieval looking depiction of what the term meant. The poster was very colorful, about average poster size, and I believe had about twenty or twenty-four different terms, each in their own square box.

Script to provide Intellitext-style functionality

Hildago — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:48:18 -0800

Are there any free or extremely cheap packages that do something like what Intellitext does? Please do not kill me, I'm not really evil. I want to put the same technology to better use. Someone is probably already doing this, I figure.

Anyway, what I'd like to have is some script that looks at a web page when it is loaded, and compares the words on that page to a list of known keywords. If a keyword shows up, the script makes the word into a link to some other page, and also adds text to the TITLE attribute. What I'm talking about can be seen here.

What I'll be using it for is to make a site glossary that operates inside a web page, finding glossary terms automatically and defining them using NiceTitles (like Metafilter has) to pop the definition up on mouseover. All things considered, I'd rather use an existing script than make my own.

Online glossary of radio news broadcast terminology?

inksyndicate — Fri, 07 May 2004 18:31:16 -0800

Anyone know of a good online glossary of radio news broadcast terminology...differentiating between expressions like "voice," a "cut," etc.? I'm a little rusty and need a refresher.