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What is Lion?
Lion allows you to send a query to the German-English, -French, -Spanish
and -Italian LEO dictionaries (Chinese is currently not supported) with
a click of your mouse from almost all MS Windows applications. This
distinguishes Lion from other toolbars which are browser-restricted.
With another click of your mouse you can have the search term in your
document replaced by any of the suggested translations from LEO's
results table.
I want to use it. What do I have to do?
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You can test Lion for a limited trial period of 30 days
(to download the trial version click the link Download Lion
below). To find out more about how to install and use the program,
please read the
Lion user guide (German only).
In the current version, Lion is available in German and English.
Lion 3 has been available since August 2008. Unlike earlier
versions (2.x), this version also fully supports Windows Vista.
Upgrading from version 2.x to 3.x is free to both non-commercial and
commercial users.
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If you want to use Lion for an unlimited period you have to register
to obtain a licence key (see below). For details please read the
section
Bestellvorgang für Lizenzen und Registrierung of the Lion
user guide.
Lion is free to non-commercial users; commercial customers and
research institutions are required to pay a licence fee. For details
please read the sections Lizenzen für Firmenkunden und Forschungseinrichtungen of
the Lion user guide.
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To download the latest version of Lion, please click the Download Lion
below. To obtain a licence key, please click the link Licence Key.
Please note that you have to register and log in with your registration data before you can obtain a licence key. (If you are not already
logged in when you click the link, you will be taken to the login
screen which also contains a link to the registration form.)
Latest version: 3.0.2
Please note:
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When registering to obtain a licence key, please note down your
login name for future reference as you will need it
should you
forget or lose your license key. The previous link to the
Lion user guide also contains information about how you can look up
your license key.
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We appeal to our users' honesty (also in the name of the developer
Th. Schleinzer) to get in touch with us if they are liable to pay the fee, as the costs
involved in developing and maintaining Lion are quite considerable.
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Functionality:
The text mode allows you to copy or type a text into the text field above and, by highlighting individual words or word strings with the mouse, send a query to the dictionary. The text mode thus offers an easy way to look up words from a document without having to type them individually into the search field. - The text mode offers no machine translation.
Procedure: - Copy or type a text into the text field.
- Check the 'search direction' above the text field.
- Highlight one or several words with the mouse.
Further details on search results:- If you highlight an individual word the dictionary results will include translations for the word and all possible base forms. Words in texts are usually inflected, but the dictionary will generally only contain an entry for the base form of a word.
- If you highlight a string of words, the results in the dictionary will only include entries that contain at least half of the search words - therefore, it makes little sense to highlight a whole text. A search for an inflected word generally also returns results for other forms of the same base form (e.g. a search for "machst" also returns results for "machte").
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