Re: [edict-jmdict] Vocabulary Relationships and Important Links

["Michael Engel" <mkengel@*********>]

> only one (Halpern's Kanji Learner's Dictionary) uses colour in entries.

There are at least another (quite recent) which also uses red color to
mark the very important words. Actually, there are quite a lot of Japanese
books which use colors (mostly/only red). In the field of
Chinese-Japanese, I have several at home.

Using a little bit of color increases the readibility - but most of the
dictionaries which I know probably never asked themselves if they really
are suited for searching/scrolling/quick scanning/... - let's say, if they
couldn't be better with a better design.

We try to use the color concept on HanDeDict*. Search for 好 on http://chdw.de
* It is not yet the optimum but it is already much better than the
mono-colored version before.

We use blue for Hanzi and Pinyin; black for the German translations and
green for additional information (grammar etc). blue and black entries are
links.

Cheers
Michael