As of version 0.6.7 it is also possible to consult dictionaries from a dict server in Wordtrans.
To do so you'll need to have installed the application dict
.
I recommend to install the server dictd
and some dictionaries
for it. In debian you have some in deb packages.
Wordtrans includes a generic configuration file (dictd.dconf), which will try to connect to a local server (localhost) using port 2628. The search will be performed in all ("*") databases in the server and with the default search strategy of the server (".").
You can change it if you wish, or create other dictionaries to use another server, or for looking only on a determined database, etc.
As you will notice, when you activate the dictionary editing dialog (Dictionaries->New or Dictionaries->Edit) you will see that it is a little different than the used in the other kind of dictionaries.
I think the dialog is self explaining and it's not necessary to explain what's every option for. Just saying that in the option Database the el asterisk ("*") means "all", and in Strategy the dot (".") means "the default search strategy of the server". The rest of databases and strategies are obtained from the server itself. The button Update makes it to connect again to the server to update these two lists.
If you have the server dictd
installed, you may type
man dictd
to see a complete description of every search strategy.
The databases of dict servers have links (if you use dict or the console version of wordtrans you will see the between {}). Well, qwordtrans can locate these links and create real links (which you can click on with your mouse) in the same way of HTML links.
This feature facilitates a lot queries in this type of dictionaries.