Welcome to Ultra Lingua, the popular French-English dictionary for Macintosh and Windows.
Contents
I. What does it include?
II. What's new in version 3.0?
III. How do you use it?
IV. How to you pay for it?
V. Distribution
VI. Contact / technical support
I. What does it include? Why would you want to use it? Well, take a look at it:
• Nearly 250,000 indexed items, including over a hundred thousand translations, and tens of thousands of secondary entries.
• Indications of literary, slang, and vulgar usage, and indications for usage (including synonyms, accompanying prepositions, general categories, and more).
• Thousands of technical terms.
• The addition of grammatical notes concerning irregular forms for
thousands of entries (plurals, past participles, future stems, etc.).
• The marking of British and American usage and spelling.
• A reverse translation feature, which helps show how various choices translate back into the departure language (an essential tool for zeroing in on the right word or expression).
• English pronunciation by voice synthesis.
• Drag & Drop, allowing you to drag words between Ultra Lingua and other applications.
• Fully network-ready.
• A comprehensive on-line grammar reference for both French and English.
• Tables showing translations of numbers, expressions of time, geographical terms, as well as samples of correspondence.
• All this at blinding speed, using surprisingly little memory.
II. What's new in version 3.0?
• Launch Ultra Lingua from anywhere, at the touch of a key!
• Send words to Ultra Lingua for translation from most text-sensitive applications, at the touch of a key.
• A palette of tools that gives you one-click access to many commonly used features.
• One-click connection to Ultra Lingua Net -- our free, on-line Web site for language resources.
• One-click connection to Quick Help, to remind you of features and shortcuts.
• A history feature, for retracing your searches (new on Mac)
• Thousands of new dictionary entries.
• A search system using wildcards, so you can search for word fragments or letter patterns.
• A tool that will translate numbers (e.g. 133) into text ("cent trente-trois" and "one hundred (and) thirty-three").
III. How do you use it?
It's pretty easy. Launch Ultra Lingua by double-clicking on it; the rest is fairly intuitive. For special features, check out the on-line manual under the Help menu, or click on the "Quick help" button on the right side of the main dictionary window.
Minimum configuration : 68020, MacOS 7.1 and later (8, 8.1, 8.5, 8.6...), and all Power Macintoshes.
If you are already a registered user of Ultra Lingua, you have preferential pricing for the upgrade. See below.
IV. How do you pay for it?
Ultra Lingua dictionaries cost $29.95 US per license. (Quantity pricing and site license information is available upon demand.)
The upgrade from version 1.x or 2.x to version 3.0 costs $14.95 (unless you registered after July 1, 2000, in which case you will receive a free upgrade.)
Although the programs are distributed over the internet, you may purchase a copy on CD-ROM for $18 shipping and handling, in addition to the license fee. (Simply check the appropriate box on the order forms.)
• Purchases in foreign currencies are best handled by credit card payment, which offers you the best bank-to-bank exchange rate.
• For education sales of CD-ROMs, see below.
• For questions regarding orders, contact us at contact@ultralingua.com.
Purchase / Registration
There are several ways to register your copy (see below). In each case, once your payment is received, you will be sent a registration number which will unlock the demonstration version.
1. On the Web (by credit card): This is the fastest, best way to register. Go to this address: http://order.kagi.com/?LKS
(Upgrades: http://order.kagi.com/?LKS3)
2. By fax or e-mail (with credit card), by postal mail (checks or postal orders in dollars). Simply launch the Register utility which accompanies the program:
Double-click on the Register icon in the Ultra Lingua folder.
Fill out the blanks, indicate your method of payment, and save the form. Then print it (for postal or fax orders) or copy it into an e-mail (for e-mail orders). Don't forget to include appropriate payment. E-mail payments are to be sent to sales@kagi.com, as indicated on the form.
3. By credit card, over the telephone:
Kagi software distribution : (510) 601-5244 (Continental US number), from Monday to Friday, between 9am et 5pm, California time. There is a $5.00 surcharge for telephone orders.
4. If you belong to a French governmental office or civil service, you can order the Ultra Lingua dictionaries through the French association, Litiel, at www.litiel.org.
5. For educational sales in North America and Australia, contact the McGraw-Hill companies higher education orders:
McGraw-Hill Companies
PO Box 182604
Columbus, OH 43272-303143004
Phone: 1-800-262-4729
Fax: 1-614-759-3644
E-mail: customer.service@mcgraw-hill.com
V. Can you distribute it?
Ultra Lingua may be freely distributed under the following conditions:
-- ALL files (read-me, program, help, and registration) are distributed together (it is best to distribute the application in its installer);
-- NO registration codes may be distributed;
-- ANY distribution via CD-ROM or other media is first cleared through us (at ulmac@ultralingua.com) -- this way we can make sure you have the most recent version.
VI. Contact / Technical Support
Don't hesitate to contact us for more information. We can be reached at:
ulwin@ultralingua.com
Our site is located at: http://www.ultralingua.com/
