$Id: README,v 1.4 2003/05/03 20:45:27 ianmacd Exp $

WHAT IS IT?
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nldict is a Ruby interface to the one volume on-line Van Dale "Groot
Woordenboek Hedendaags Nederlands", a renowned dictionary of the modern Dutch
language.

It can be used to obtain the spelling, grammatical information and the
definition of all words in the dictionary.

To obtain the spelling variations, plural forms, example sentences, conjugated
verb forms, proverbs and sayings, you will need to obtain the paper version
of the dictionary:

http://www.vandale.nl/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/Preview&c=Boek&cid=970239910856

The program output assumes the ISO-8859-1 font, so you will need to be using
this or a very similar font in order to view the results correctly.


USAGE
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$ nldict <word 1> [<word 2>] [<word n>]

The program is multithreaded, so words are looked up in parallel for
maximum speed.


SEE ALSO
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http://www.vandale.nl/ is the home page of Van Dale.
