Dict-Word version 1.3
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This is a dictionary from Arabic to another language:
for every word coming from the input file, these modules are able to take out the radix, look for the translation according to the radix and exporting the whole dictionary DB in HTML or LaTeX.
In order to work on a DB, you will need the Dict::Db module.
If you'd only want the radix of a word or its ArabTeX translitteration, no other modules are needed.

Main features are:
->finding the radix, which is accomplished by chopping away all the prefixes and suffixes, and by some characters removal at the end.
->exportation. This is a real good thing for Arabic students like me, so that I may easily memorize the meaning of a radix. This way, the finding the translation of a word while translating "on-the-fly" will be easier and faster.

All the vocabulary databases are located in a particular folder, so that these files may be directly modified without any harm to the script execution.
Moreover I'm working on an importation module, so that new radixes/terms may be added easily and quickly to the local database.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires no other modules, just Perl >=5.8.1


MODULES

Dict::Word
	this will create the Word object

Dict::Word::Radix
	this will return the radix of a word

Dict::Word::Encode
	this will return the ArabTeX encoding of a word

NOTES

->Everything (script code and data) works ONLY if raw data is encoded in Unicode (utf8 or UTF-8). Other representations will lead to errors or wrong results.
->Please use non-formatted text as input data.
Using Microsoft Word .doc files, Adobe .pdf or HTML pages WILL cause problems.



COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Andrea Benazzo

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.