Difference between revisions of "Configuration:Create Dictionary"

General information are provided at the top, using the [Header] identification. Data on Author and Version will be shown in the configuration dialog. You can enter more information here, like licensing or comments as well, but not all will be recognized and used by Scrabble3D. If the standard category should get a different name as Standard, you may enter it at StandardCategory=<Name>. In case of an encrypted dictionary the [Key] to decode it follows. Don't touch this generated value.

Words can be assigned to categories, whose names are listed in the section [Categories]. Up to 255 categories can be used. The assignment of words to a particular category is done by the number.

The section [Words] contains all words. Letters are capitalized on reading. Every line corresponds to a word. If the word is followed by an equal sign the rest of the line (or up to the semicolon) describes the meaning of this word. If a semicolon follows the number identifies the category as defined in the section above.

[Header]
Author=John Doe
Version=0.0.1
Licence=GPL
Comment=Just a demo
StandardCategory=Nouns
[Categories]
1=Verb
2=Adjective
[Words]
AA
AARDVARK=an African anteater
ABDUCE=to abduct;1
ADDITIVELY=;2

Dictionary that contains of digraphs or trigraphs needs special treatment. For a proper use of those multi characters letters you have to configure the letter set accordingly.

For example, the Spanish Scrabble rules show the digraphs CH, LL, and RR as single character on one tile. Since it's not possible to enter the character directly, the dictionary replaces them by 1, 2, and 3. That means entries in the section [Words] like LLAMAR or CHAMPURRA are represented as 2AMAR and 1AMPU3A respectively. And to show digraphs instead of the number the dictionary adds a section [Replace] with the content 1=CH 2=LL 3=RR. In this case, the letter set uses 1..3 for letters.

You can use any character for replacement.

[Header]
Version=100003
Author=MIO
StandardCategory=Conforme al DRAE
License=Creative Commons NC3
Release=2010-05-21
Comentario=Los dígrafos CH, LL y RR han sido reemplazados
        por 1, 2 y 3 respectivamente.
[Replace]
1=CH
2=LL
3=RR
[Categories]
[Words]
2AMAR
1AMPU3A

In case of a dictionary that does not have an inbuilt letter set or if you define a very specific dictionary like math, it could be useful to add the appropriate standard letter set to the dictionary. If a distribution is provided with the dictionary, the program will check the current configuration after loading the dictionary and applies it on confirmation.

The parameter are specified at section [Header] with the (exact) key words [Letters], [Values], and [Counts]. The example shows the section from the "math" dictionary

[Header]
...
Letters=⁼,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,−,×,÷,+,.,!,^,²,³,√,∜,∞,>,<
Values=0,3,1,2,4,3,3,4,5,4,4,6,6,7,6,8,10,9,10,10,7,10,10,10,10
Counts=18,6,10,8,7,7,7,7,6,6,6,4,4,3,4,3,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1
...
[Words]
−1+26×4⁼103=;3
−1+4×26⁼103=;3
...

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