Wiseman/Feng on your Palm/iPhone/PDA

[Guest guest]

(cross-posted to Chinese Medicine)

 

Hello All,

 

This is part public service announcement, part request for help-

 

Plecodict (www.pleco.com) is an excellent Chinese-English Dictionary program

that runs on PDAs and some smartphones, and they have licensed Wiseman/Feng's

Practical Dictionary of from the folks at Paradigm.

 

The problem is that they have been so busy turning out a version of the program

that works on the iPhone OS that they have put off releasing the Practical

Dictionary for many months... I can't wait any longer!

 

So if any of you are interested in being able to carry around the PD in your

pocket please head over to www.plecoforums.com or send an email to the (very

responsive to feedback) head of the company ( mikelove ) asking them

to release the PD as soon as possible.

 

Thanks!

 

Henry

[Guest guest]

Hey Henry,

So i fw'd yr letter to Mike with a query of my own. Here's his

response below.

ab

 

 

 

> Michael Love <mikelove

>

>

> Interesting... the problem, though, is that the iPhone version is

> something the future of Pleco is heavily riding on at this point,

> while TCM is more of an interesting side business, so it would take

> a whole lot of e-mail to move it up in the priority list.

>

> As far as availability on other platforms, that's complicated a bit

> by the nature of the Wiseman entries - they're extremely extremely

> long, much longer than in our other dictionaries, and have a lot of

> embedded formatting info / images / etc too, so we're not even

> entirely sure how to translate them effectively for Palm and Windows

> Mobile - since nobody at Pleco knows much about TCM we're worried

> about accidentally truncating something that might be important, so

> really what we need to do is improve the dictionary entry rendering

> code on Palm/WM to allow it to do a better job of handling those

> long entries. Which is a pretty complicated undertaking, though one

> we certainly plan to do eventually.

>

> Michael Love

> Pleco Software

> www.pleco.com

>

>

> A. Brameier wrote:

>> Hi Mike, ni hao ma?

>> so this was posted on our CHA elist.

>> The clamor begins.. :-)

>> I'd sure be quite interested, but not sure what my next device will

>> be. Watching and waiting. But I guess the question here is: What's

>> to stop you from releasing the PD of CM for the other formats, with

>> an announcement that the iPhone version will be available after

>> some months?

>> You are so good at explaining these things.

>> Hope you're well,

>> Ann Brameier

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> (cross-posted to Chinese Medicine)

>>>

>>> Hello All,

>>> This is part public service announcement, part request for help-

>>>

>>> Plecodict (www.pleco.com <http://www.pleco.com>) is an excellent

>>> Chinese-English Dictionary program that runs on PDAs and some

>>> smartphones, and they have licensed Wiseman/Feng's Practical

>>> Dictionary of from the folks at Paradigm.

>>>

>>> The problem is that they have been so busy turning out a version

>>> of the program that works on the iPhone OS that they have put off

>>> releasing the Practical Dictionary for many months... I can't wait

>>> any longer!

>>>

>>> So if any of you are interested in being able to carry around the

>>> PD in your pocket please head over to www.plecoforums.com or send

>>> an email to the (very responsive to feedback) head of the company

>>> ( mikelove <mikelove%40pleco.com> ) asking them

>>> to release the PD as soon as possible.

>>>

>>> Thanks!

>>>

>>> Henry

>>>

>>>

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Ann, thanks for writing Mike about it. I wasn't aware that the PD was so hard

to deal with (though it seems obvious now- the PD is more like an encyclopedia

than a simple dictionary!).

 

Unfortunately the clamor does not seem overwhelming , so I guess another

couple months of waiting are in order.

 

FWIW, the Pleco company will at some point be making a version of their

dictionary program that runs on desktop computers.

 

Regards, Henry

 

, " A. Brameier " <snakeoil.works

wrote:

>

> Hey Henry,

> So i fw'd yr letter to Mike with a query of my own. Here's his

> response below.

> ab

>

>

>

> > Michael Love <mikelove

> >

> >

> > Interesting... the problem, though, is that the iPhone version is

> > something the future of Pleco is heavily riding on at this point,

> > while TCM is more of an interesting side business, so it would take

> > a whole lot of e-mail to move it up in the priority list.

> >

> > As far as availability on other platforms, that's complicated a bit

> > by the nature of the Wiseman entries - they're extremely extremely

> > long, much longer than in our other dictionaries, and have a lot of

> > embedded formatting info / images / etc too, so we're not even

> > entirely sure how to translate them effectively for Palm and Windows

> > Mobile - since nobody at Pleco knows much about TCM we're worried

> > about accidentally truncating something that might be important, so

> > really what we need to do is improve the dictionary entry rendering

> > code on Palm/WM to allow it to do a better job of handling those

> > long entries. Which is a pretty complicated undertaking, though one

> > we certainly plan to do eventually.

> >

> > Michael Love

> > Pleco Software

> > www.pleco.com

> >

> >

> > A. Brameier wrote:

> >> Hi Mike, ni hao ma?

> >> so this was posted on our CHA elist.

> >> The clamor begins.. :-)

> >> I'd sure be quite interested, but not sure what my next device will

> >> be. Watching and waiting. But I guess the question here is: What's

> >> to stop you from releasing the PD of CM for the other formats, with

> >> an announcement that the iPhone version will be available after

> >> some months?

> >> You are so good at explaining these things.

> >> Hope you're well,

> >> Ann Brameier

> >>>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>> (cross-posted to Chinese Medicine)

> >>>

> >>> Hello All,

> >>> This is part public service announcement, part request for help-

> >>>

> >>> Plecodict (www.pleco.com <http://www.pleco.com>) is an excellent

> >>> Chinese-English Dictionary program that runs on PDAs and some

> >>> smartphones, and they have licensed Wiseman/Feng's Practical

> >>> Dictionary of from the folks at Paradigm.

> >>>

> >>> The problem is that they have been so busy turning out a version

> >>> of the program that works on the iPhone OS that they have put off

> >>> releasing the Practical Dictionary for many months... I can't wait

> >>> any longer!

> >>>

> >>> So if any of you are interested in being able to carry around the

> >>> PD in your pocket please head over to www.plecoforums.com or send

> >>> an email to the (very responsive to feedback) head of the company

> >>> ( mikelove <mikelove%40pleco.com> ) asking them

> >>> to release the PD as soon as possible.

> >>>

> >>> Thanks!

> >>>

> >>> Henry

> >>>

> >>>

>

>

>

>