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Originally Posted by Doitsu
It no longer works as a lookup dictionary.
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You still didn't reveal which application you use to view the dictionary...
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I assumed the objective of the mobipunpack.py developers was to re-create the original source files as good as possible so that you could theoretically unpack a dictionary correct an entry and recompile it without any loss of functionality.
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Yes, this is the final goal. We know that it's not reached yet. A version number < 1.0 might give the hint that we don't see the script as finished
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Currently this doesn't seem to work.
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My dictionary itch has been scratched by the existing dictionary support I've implemented. I'm aware that there are several things left to be done, but as it works for me, it probably takes someone else to finish the support (but I'm willing to help as time permits).
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I know that the Kindle app doesn't allow users to select user dictionaries anyway, but it is possible to patch the ASIN number of a user dictionary so that it matches the ASIN of one of the 5 official dictionaries.
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Yep, that's correct and what I've done to use the optimized dictionary.
By the way I was very surprised to see that the unmodified dictionary works great on my new Kindle 3 (keyboard), it seems that the kindle firmware removes unnecessary formatting when displaying a dicitionary entry in the popup window, while the kindle app doesn't.
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IMHO, it doesn't make much sense to convert a dictionary to a Mobipocket ebook because the user looses the dictionary functionality.
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Converting from what?
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Please have a look at the original .html source file and the one that the script re-creates and you'll see that they differ significantly and I'm not talking about whitespace characters and line-breaks.
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I haven't done that yet. Can you give some examples of what's different? If you could find out what has to be fixed to make it work, someone (me?) might fix the mobiunpack script.
Ciao,
Steffen