The KVocTrain Handbook

The KVocTrain Handbook

Ewald Arnold (ewald ewald-arnold.de)

Reviewer: Eric Bischoff

Anne-Marie Mahfouf (annma kde.org)

Revision 0.8.3 (2005-06-06)

Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Ewald Arnold

Copyright © 2005 Anne-Marie Mahfouf

KVocTrain is a KDE vocabulary program to help you train your vocabulary, when you are trying to learn a foreign language for example.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

What is it?

2. Quick Start to KVocTrain

3. Using KVocTrain

Overview
Using the keyboard
Using the mouse
Working on selections
Available file formats
Available word types
About charsets, encodings, unicode and such strange things
And how should I learn?

Document Properties dialog

General properties
Lesson descriptions
Types descriptions
Tenses
Usage labels
Document Options

Language Properties dialog

Settings dialog

General
Languages
View
Copy & Paste
Query
Thresholds
Blocking
Profiles

Entry dialog

Common Properties
Additional Properties
Suggestions For Multiple Choice Query
Additional properties for verbs
Additional properties for adjectives
Properties from or to the original
Docking to the main window

Query dialogs

Normal Random Query
Random query with Multiple Choice
Query of conjugations
Query of articles
Query of comparison forms
Query of synonyms, antonyms, paraphrases and example sentences.

Document Statistics dialog

General
All languages in the dictionary

5. Sharing files and downloading dictionaries

Contributing your files to KVocTrain
Downloading and installing existing files
Other dictionaries on the web
Translator applications

6. Interesting links

Similar projects
Other interesting links

7. Command Reference

The Main KVocTrain Window

The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The Vocabulary Menu
The Learning Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help menu
Table Header Menu

8. Credits and License

Thanks
Copyright

A. Installation

How to obtain kvoctrain
Requirements
Compilation and installation

Introduction