http://www.hloeffler.info/epwing/
The EPWING (Electronic Publishing WING) format is one of several formats for electronic publishing in particular electronic dictionaries. Development of the format started during the 1980s. In 1991 the EPWING Consortium was formed by Fujitsu, Sony, Iwanami and other Japanese IT and publishing companies. In 1996 EPWING was standardized as JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) X4081 and revised in 2001.
The EPWING format exists in several versions including such features as sound, movies, compression, etc. and offers various search methods. In principal, versions are backward compatible but not forward compatible, that is software conforming to lower version numbers are able to exploit only features of that and earlier versions.
EPWING versions
V1 character representation, b/w illustrations, audio playback
V2 color graphics, sound compression (WAV)
V3 MPEG-1 movies
V4 data compression, hard disk installation
V5 JPEG, numerical formula display
V6 high data compression, index size reduction
ST support for color graphics and continuous audio playback
Supported Search Methods
headword search - both in forward and backward dicrection
conditional search - search with multiple keywords
composite search - select multiple keywords from a category menu
cross search - search among (multiple) headwords
menu search - usually text with hyperlinks
Offizielle EPWING-Seite :
http://www.epwing.or.jp/
http://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/Eij...PWING.html
http://wiki.gohome.org/zten/
http://www.mblondel.org/journal/category/dictionaries/
http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2006/02/...tionaries/