Creating translation dictionary software

[mbahundra]

Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum... Redirects welcome!

I'm looking for software that will allow me to create a two-language dictionary. It needs to be able to link various ways between words, ie, from one word in language A to several in language B, and back again to a set of words (including the original) in language A. Does that make sense?

So if word K in language A means X, Y and Z in language B, then if I look up word X in language B it will give me K, but also L and M in language A; if I look up Y, it will give me J, K and L; and so on.

Can a regular database program such as FileMaker do this? Or do I need something else?

Thanks for suggestions.

Mbahundra.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

FileMaker could do this, yes.

And it really sounds like what you need is a simple relational database. FileMaker can do this, as well as a lot of other database programs (mySQL, etc.).

You could even do this in Excel if you're clever enough!

 

[mbahundra]

Thanks for that. I'll have a closer look at filemaker.