Reference dictionary list...

This menu item allows you to add and remove dictionaries from the Reference dictionary list.

The Reference dictionary list dialog (see Figure 1 below) controls the dictionaries used for the Kanji reference dictionary and Text translation aid functions. Thus, changing the dictionaries in the Reference dictionary list will change the words found by these functions.

Note: Most users add the Edict and Enamdict reference dictionaries to the Reference dictionary list. Edict is a general reference dictionary which contains over 60,000 entries and Enamdict is a proper name dictionary with over 160,000 entries. These dictionaries are available free from the www.lavasoft.com web site (in the JWM users area), and are also included on the JWM Companion CD.

Figure 1. The Reference list dialog

If you wish to add a dictionary to the Reference dictionary list and it isn't displayed in the File selection dialog (even though you are looking in the Dict folder), it may already be contained in one of the other dictionary lists and thus be unavailable. To get around this, you could duplicate the dictionary, assign it another name and add that to the Reference dictionary list instead.

You may wish to look at the full list of JWM dictionaries available.

Classroom Edition
When running JWM as a student, check the checkbox titled, Use list on Teacher's hard disk to get the fastest reference dictionary searches. When this checkbox is unchecked, dictionaries stored in your student folder will be used instead. If these are contained on a floppy disk, searches will be much slower.