Setting up a new dictionary - important change notes in past releases

With DictonaryGeneration 3.0.0 the Normation classes are now located in the package de.kugihan.dictionaryformids.translation.normation. DictionaryUpdate classes are now located in the package de.kugihan.dictionaryformids.dictgen.dictionaryupdate. For existing DictionaryForMIDs.properties files, the properties NormationClassName and DictionaryUpdateClassName do not need to be updated, because DictionaryForMIDs automatically maps the old package names to the new package names.

With DictionaryGeneration 2.7.0 the 'pre-normate'-call which did remove punctiation characters was removed; normation now relies completely on the normation class. Starting with 2.7.0 the normation classes can use the method Util.removePunctuation to remove punctuation characters (with DictionaryGeneration < 2.7.0 this was done automatically); or just call NormationLib.defaultNormation as the first step in normation.

With DictionaryForMIDs 2.5.0 / DictionaryGeneration 2.5.0: The structure of the index file was extended with the searchindicator (see Files generated by the DictionaryGeneration tool). For this reason the dictionaries have to be re-generated with DictionaryGeneration 2.5.0.
Also, with DictionaryGeneration 2.5.0 a change for the DictionaryUpdate class was introduced: the method removeDisturbingWords was renamed to the method updateKeyWordVector; now the keywords in the vector are accessed with
            ((IndexKeyWordEntry) keyWordVector.elementAt(elementCount)).keyWord