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Old 11-23-2019, 08:55 AM   #25
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Dictionary conversion from Stardict to Pocketbook

Again thank you, Lykke. I found a version from our forum here. That one includes a German and English howto and the example folders with the necessary files for conversion.

Following the manual here, I still got stuck a few times.
However, Together with linguae* and some manual intervention to get convertor.exe to accept the generated dict.xdxf files (, replacing '>' symbols in the description with a regex <(?!(ar|head|k|def|/|\?xml|xdxf|full|descr|date)) or indenting too long XML lines,**) I finally got all dictionaries converted.

The resulting dictionaries retain bold, italics and enumeration: Very beautiful! However, references to wav-files for pronunciation are flat text. They ought to be filtered out before conversion.

My conclusion is that this beautifully formatted text is a step up from Koreader dictionary support.
However, you're not able to select a word from the dictionary for lookup, while Koreader can. You'll have to press the pencil and write the word for further lookups.
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* Installing linguae was not as easy as I hoped. In the end I went for the manual installation described at the bottom of the page.
** Both done in SublimeText, because I couldn't be bothered to write a perl script, yet.

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