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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Have you seen the instructions attached to the first post in this thread? That gives the steps you need to create a Kobo dictionary, all of which can be automated. There are three main steps:
1. Converting the source dictionary into the html format used by the Kobo.
2. Creating an index from the html.
3. Packaging the html and index into the Kobo dictionary.
Steps 2 & 3 are generic and are good candidates for a generic program; in fact I have code that does this already. I'm thinking about tidying it up and making it generally available; I don't know if there is much demand for it. It is Windows only.
Step 1 is the most time consuming and is bespoke to each source dictionary, as they all have their own formats. Again for this step I write a program, but it is specific to each source dictionary. Depending on the source, it can be done manually using a text editor and e.g., regular expressions, or perhaps xslt tranformations if you have the skill.
I think AlPe is also working on a converter program; see here. |
Yes, that's correct. I want to add "output to Kobo format" to
Penelope, my script that converts XML-like or Stardict dictionaries to the format required by the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey.
I really wanted to spend some time on it last weekend, but my spare time was consumed discussing
interesting stuff about (our) Audio-eBooks with DAISY.
I will try to write the output function by the end of this week.