User's Guide

Introduction

Definitions(C>E) is a Chinese to English dictionary system for the electronic 
media. It provides English definitions to Chinese words. What makes it 
different from other dictionaries is that Definitions(C>E) allows one to select 
a whole block of text, rather than just one word, and get definitions for all of 
the words in just one step. It also provides multiple definitions for a single 
word when needed.
Definitions(C>E) can be used as a reading tool for English speaking people 
who want to learn Chinese. With it one can examine and interpret the various 
Chinese materials that exists on the Internet. Things like email, newsgroup 
articles, WebPages content. 

What you get...

When you select a block of Chinese text and run Definitions(C>E) you get a 
window containing the original Chinese text running down the left side of the 
window. To the right of each Chinese word will be the English definition of 
that word. If you want more definitions of a single word, a small second 
window will appear with those definitions.

How much Chinese do you need to know?

You don't need to be able to read Chinese characters. You don't need any 
vocabulary. What you do need is a basic understanding of how a Chinese 
sentence is structured. The kinds of things you might get from a beginner's 
tutorial on the Chinese language. 

Chinese display program.

In order to see the Chinese characters, you will need a program that enables 
Windows to display Chinese characters. There are several programs that do 
so. The one we looked at is "AsianSuite", by UnionWay. It works very well, 
and a free demo is available at 
ftp.unionway.com/unionway/asiansuite/uwcjkstd.exe. Without a Chinese 
display program, you will see character codes instead of Chinese characters. 
If you do not care to see the Chinese, characters, you can use Definitions 
without a Chinese display program.
Note - Whatever display program you choose must be able to display both 
Big5, and EUC code. Also, when using Definitions, you should set the 
display for EUC code.

Menu items

Get Definitions

When you click on the Get definitions menu item, a little time will pass as the 
program finds all of the definitions, and then a window will appear. Any text 
other than Chinese will appear as in the original document, starting from left 
to right. But when a Chinese character is encountered, the original text stops, 
a space is inserted and then the matching Chinese character from the 
dictionary is displayed. Next will be brackets containing the pinyin form of 
that Chinese character. After that the definition is displayed. At the end of the 
definition a newline will place the next Chinese character on the left side of 
the screen. Definitions(C>E) uses Paul Denisowski's "Cedict" dictionary. 
Because of the excellence of his dictionary, you will find that most of the 
Chinese character matches will be exact. Other matches however, will just 
contain the Chinese character in a larger phrase. If there is no matching 
character in the dictionary, then the program will return "NOMATCH".
Note - On rare occasions a Chinese character from the source document will 
not exist in the Definitions(C>E) system. In that case the pinyin for that 
character is substituted by the system. If you see a pinyin on the far left of the 
screen, then the character does not exist in the system. You may look up the 
definition to that pinyin by highlighting it, and clicking on Single Definitions.

Single definitions

If you do not get an exact match, you may want to get definitions of other 
words containing that character. (One can often deduce what the meaning of a 
character is by seeing how it is used in other words.) Simply highlight the 
character and click Single Definitions, and a small window will appear with 
many words containing that character.

Clear All

Clear All, allows you to clear the screen and memory buffers. You need to 
Clear All, before you select another portion of text to analyze.

Big5 only

Chinese exists on the Internet in two popular formats. The dominant format is 
Big5. Definitions only works with text that is in the Big5 format.

Installation

You will need the following files, which you can download from links on our 
Website.
(http://pw2.netcom.com/~guilin/c2e.html)
	1. c2ew95dm.zip
	2. cedict.zip
	3. cn2jpdos.zip
	4. jdxgen95.zip 
Create a directory named DEFINE
Copy or move the above files into it.
Unzip all of the files.
	Note - You only have to unzip B2J.EXE in the cn2jpdos.zip file. 
Run the MSDOS prompt.
Type cd \define <enter>
Type c2econv <enter>
This will take minutes as it creates an EUC version of cedict called 
CDICTEUC.
Type jdxgen95 cdicteuc <enter>
	This will creates an index for it.
You can start Definitions by double clicking on C2EW95.EXE or you can 
create a shortcut for it. The shortcut should point to the C2EW95.EXE file. If 
you don't know how to create a shortcut, please refer to your windows help 
menu, and look under shortcut. 

System requirements
Windows 95 or higher.
A Chinese display program such as AsianSuite.

Price.
 $49

Definitions(C>E) is a product of BND Products Incorporated, Los Angeles, 
California USA.
You can reach us at guilin@ix.netcom.com or (213) 256-8275.

Demo note...
The demo is exactly the same as the real program except that the number of 
characters the demo will read is limited to 20 at one time. The number of 
definitions that will appear from "Single Definitions", is also limited to only 5 
or 6. Also the name of the program is c2ew95dm.exe, instead of c2ew95.exe.

