Dictionaries

DebianGnu comes with gcide, dictd, dict and jargon. I think that these packages should be installed by default - or at least mentioned at the installation, and strongly recommended -, but instead they come in Woody's 4th CD and many users never hear about them.

About something more urgent: I'm teaching in a university at the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where only a few students can read English. I'm thinking about doing a few tweaks on dictionary.el and using it there, with both gcide and freedict.

Tuesday, 2004may18: another idea: the students will be using Emacs on W$ boxes, and I'm not famililiar enough with W$ to risk installing dictionary servers and clients there - chances are that I would spending dozens of hours working on that and not complete the task. A simple alternative is to make the dictionary from ../e/dict.e.html#english-to-portuguese available as a text file and teach the students to find stuff there with C-s or with C-s C-q C-j C-q C-j.