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'''Dragon Flame''' is a freeware application for Microsoft Windows (98, Me, XP, NT4, 2000), also available on Linux. it includes a Sindarin dictionary, additional lexicons and a complete Sindarin corpus.
'''Dragon Flame''' is a freeware application based on [[Didier Willis]]' [[Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary]]. It was first released in December [[2002]]. The latest version, Dragon Flame 2.0, for Windows is from December [[2003]], but there is a more recent Dragon Flame 2.0.1. for Linux (July [[2004]]). It should be noted that much material has been published since then; Dragon Flame incorporates lexicon version 0.993, but the current (as of April [[2007]]) version of Hiswelókë's Dictionary is 0.99499.
 
The latest version is Dragon Flame 2.0, released in December 2003. Following is a brief list of the new features added to the software since version 1.0 was first released in December 2002:


==Features==
* Extented search functions with regular expressions.  Helpful for those wanting to find and analyse similar patterns.  
* Extented search functions with regular expressions.  Helpful for those wanting to find and analyse similar patterns.  
* Automated Tengwar transcription (based on the TTT engine and Mans Bjorkman's modes -- courtesy of the YaTT development team)  
* Automated Tengwar transcription (based on the TTT engine and Mans Bjorkman's modes -- courtesy of the YaTT development team)  
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* Fixes and improvements in the history mechanism.  
* Fixes and improvements in the history mechanism.  


DF 2.0 embeds a new version of ''[[Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary]]'' (lexicon version 0.993), including several corrections, a few additional entries, and a major re-work of all entries (better presentation; indications of register, domain, etc. when possible; parts of definitions moved to the etymologies or marked as definition "hints"; some additional discussions entered; some definitions changed...).
==External links==
 
* [http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/index.html Download]
This program can be downloaded from [http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/index.html here].
* [http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/online/english.html Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary]


[[Category:Websites]]
[[fi:Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary]]
[[fi:Hiswelókë's Sindarin dictionary]]

Revision as of 17:06, 12 April 2008

Dragon Flame is a freeware application based on Didier Willis' Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary. It was first released in December 2002. The latest version, Dragon Flame 2.0, for Windows is from December 2003, but there is a more recent Dragon Flame 2.0.1. for Linux (July 2004). It should be noted that much material has been published since then; Dragon Flame incorporates lexicon version 0.993, but the current (as of April 2007) version of Hiswelókë's Dictionary is 0.99499.

Features

  • Extented search functions with regular expressions. Helpful for those wanting to find and analyse similar patterns.
  • Automated Tengwar transcription (based on the TTT engine and Mans Bjorkman's modes -- courtesy of the YaTT development team)
  • Link to on-line dictionaries (e.g. Webster's) when the user's internet connection is active. Helpful for non-native English speakers who sometimes need to check a definition.
  • Updated documentation.
  • Source code included.
  • The "Check updates" feature (broken in DF 1.0) is disabled by default (reserved for wizards only).
  • Fixes and improvements in the history mechanism.

External links

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