DictTeX — making dictionaries with LaTeX

Features:

• it makes Good-looking headers
• dictionary environment
• term command
• bigletter command

Main steps:

• build a latex dictionary using
  • dict.sty style ( usepackage{dict} )
  • dictionary environment, ( begin{dictionary} )
  • term command, ( term{word}{semantics} )
  • bigletter command when necessary ( bigletter{A} )

Following a LaTeX example of a DictTeX dictionary is presented

  \documentclass[twoside,twocolumn]{book}
  \usepackage[portuges]{babel}
  \usepackage[isolatin]{inputenc}
  \usepackage{dict}
   
  \begin{document}
  \title{DictTex - making dictionaries with latex}
  \author{Jose Joao Almeida \and Jose Luis Santos}
  \date{Abri 2001}
  \maketitle
  
  %% .....................................
  
  \begin{dictionary}
    \bigletter{A}
       \term{a}{a [\emph{Article}]  }
       \term{a}{uma [\emph{Article}]  }
       \term{a}{um [\emph{Article}]  }
       \term{aardvarks}{porco-da-terra, oricterope}
       \term{aback}{às avessas [\emph{Adverb}]  }
       \term{aback}{atrás, detrás [\emph{Adverb}]  }
       \term{aback}{para trás [\emph{Adverb}]  }
       ...
    \bigletter{B}
  \end{dictionary}