Amaya W3C

About Amaya

ดาวโหลด Amaya

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เอกสารประกอบ

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Documentation

The documentation provided with this release is not complete yet, but it should be enough to understand how to use and configure Amaya. Some documentation is also available for developers.

Using Amaya

Compiling Amaya

For those who want to port Amaya to a new platform or adapt it to their needs, there is a document which explains:

How to compile the Amaya environment on Unix platforms from the distributed source tree.

Compiling Amaya on PC / Windows platforms is different. See Compiling Amaya On Windows NT for more information on how to compile and install Amaya.

Translating Amaya dialogs

The text of menus, dialog boxes, and messages are stored in files found in the Amaya/config directory: xx-amayadialogue, xx-amayamsg, and xx-libdialogue, where xx represents the code of the selected language (en, fr, etc.). All these files are generated by a Perl script applied to following three xml files:

  1. menu entries (base_am_dia.xml)
  2. amaya messages and dialogs (base-am_msg.xml)
  3. thotlib messages and dialogs (base_am_lib.xml)

The best way to add a new language is to send us a new copy of these three files, with the new <language> declaration in the <control> section, and a new <message> entry for each <label>.

If you have access to the Amaya CVS base, the Perl script is Amaya/tools/xmldialogues/scripts/Am_dial_managment.pl

Extending dictionaries

Amaya is able to work with several dictionaries. It selects the current set of dictionaries according to the language of the current element. Within a <p xml:lang="en">, it will use Eprinc.dic and Eperso.dic (or .DIC dictionaries if .dic are not available). Eprinc.dic is the main compressed English dictionary. Eprinc.dic is the main textual English dictionary. Eperso.dic (or Eperso.DIC) dictionary registers personal English words. Within a <p xml:lang="fr">, it will use Fprinc.dic and Fperso.dic. dictionaries.

The format of a .DIC dictionary is very simple:

When you ask Amaya to learn the new word, it inserts it in the $AmayaHome/dictionary.DCT dictionary. That dictionary has exactly the same format as .DIC dictionaries and you can use that facility to extend or create a directory.

Suppose I want to extend the French directory:

  1. I download extenddic.tgz to get the source of the French directory: extenddic/dic/Fprinc.DIC
  2. I copy the Fprinc.DIC to $AmayaHome/dictionary.DCT and I add some missing words with the learn function of Amaya.
  3. I use the diccompress program to generate a new compressed Fprinc.dic and install this new version in Amaya/dicopar directory.

The diccompress program source and current existing .DIC dictionaries are available in extenddic.tgz tar file. The included extenddic directory must be created next to the Amaya source directory as diccompress.c uses Amaya include files.

Developer's corner

Those who want to extend or change Amaya need to read the following documentation:

Amaya is based on the results from the Thot research activity developed at INRIA.

Publications

Some articles about Amaya have been published in scientific conferences and journals:

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Irรจne Vatton
Date: 2009-11-18

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