What it IS
Verba is a local dictionary to translate individual words from Latin to English,
from Spanish to English, or from English to Spanish. It understands simple Latin and Spanish inflections,
recognizing, for example, "stellarum" (Latin), or "hablaste" (Spanish). It does recognize a limited number
of simple Spanish prepositional phrases, such as "a corto plazo", but that is the limit of its multiword analysis.
My major purpose in creating Verba was for its markup capability. If you give it a paragraph (or
more) of text, it will generate a marked up version of the same text in HTML. It is still in the source
language, because this is for the learner of the language, but individual words are tagged with float-overs,
so that the reader may hold the mouse over a word to see its definition. I've only tested the float-overs with
IE 5.5 and Netscape 6 so far.
What it is NOT
Verba is not a program to translate clauses (or sentences or paragraphs). It is focused
at the word level (with the exception noted earlier).
Who is responsible
Perry Rapp is responsible for Verba. It incorporates technology from
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Smartronix, Inc. (Software & Engineering firm).
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Ilya Braude's Spengster (Spanish<->English program).
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William Whitaker's Words (Latin->English program).
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Konstantin Knizhnik's FastDB (high-speed custom database software).
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PJ Arends' FileEditCtrl (Edit control with embedded browse button).
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Chris Maunder's HyperLink label (HyperLink version of CStatic).
Please contact 
with any comments, questions, bug reports, feature suggestions, offers to help...
What is its status
Verba is still under development, but, in the spirit of Eric Raymond's slogan, "Release Early, Release Often"
(from
To show what has changed recently, I'm uploading copies also of my development note files.
