Am Wed, 28. June 2006 13:09 schrieb avox: > Owen Cook wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Eilert wrote: > >> Owen Cook schrieb: > >> > This may be of interest from http://search.srem.org/ > >> > > >> > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-May/017992.html > >> > >> What's drop caps in German? :-) > > > > Google says Tropfenkappen > > Very funny. I doubt many Germans would have any idea what Tropfenkappen > should mean and if they do, it sure wont be drop caps. > > I recommend http://dict.leo.org for online translations > Englisch<->German<->French. > It lists all possible translations with hints, and also phrases which > contain that word. > > Very good, very professional, just not as funny as Google. Not to forget the package leo [1] which allows a very easy access to leo.dict.org in a xterm. So one don't need to fizzle around with browser forms anymore, at least for those who use Linux...
just type: leo 'small caps' and you will get the translation. But not for drop caps :-)) regards, thomas [1] Description: English-German dictionary using dict.leo.org leo is a program for the command line which translates German words into their English counterpart and vice versa using dict.leo.org.
