Overview
The current WOLF release is designed to have a feel similar to EXCEL, but geared for use by linguists. We chose this design
because many linguists use EXCEL, despite its limitations for creating dictionaries. Each row in a WOLF dictionary corresponds
to a word. Each word, similarly contains row and column cells. A more detailed discussion of this is provided on the page
describing entry (entry of words.html.
WOLF supports
- Available for free downloads from Windows and Apple Stores
- Up to 100 languages in a single dictionary
- Multimedia audio, picture, and video attached to words, examples, and definitions
- Unlimited numbers of definitions and examples for a single word
- Uses the standardized GOLD ontology and ISO language codes
- Entry of phonetic representations
- Extensive search and sort capabilities
- Import and Export facilities employing XML
- Import from other dictionary formats (like EXCEL, MDF, SDF, and Lift).
- Ability to merge dictionaries together
- Entry of the dictionary copyright notice and contacts for contributing authors
- Ability to record audio that attaches to dictionary words, definitions, and examples
- Undo and redo facilities to recover from errors
- Hard copy printouts in RTF or PDF formats
- Comprehensive printout of dictionaries using general-purpose user-defined templates
- Support multiple writing systems and Unicode fonts.
- Ability to automaticall merge keyboard layouts into mobile and web based output versions
- Single click generation of websites that can be integrated with user web content
- Applications that run on mobile devices using the ACORNS gallery application
- Supports hyperlinks linking to external web pages.
WOLF if free for non-profit use and its source codes will soon be hosted on GitHub.