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Originally Posted by snarkophilus
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Not exactly. I took that
GCIDE version I made and combined it with a different version of Wordnet 3.1 that I found on a Chinese forum (
here's the file, but I didn't make it) that had some HTML attached that made the entries look nicer (I didn't know that Kobo dictionaries could be styled like that; it looks really nice when paired with a sans font at a smaller font size using patches). I think it's a conversion of a styled mdict version that I've seen kicking around (although the .ifo file makes mention of babylon so maybe that was the original source format; either way the ifo file has the credits but it's written in Vietnamese. As an aside, the mdict format allows you to attach a css file and when you use
pyglossary to convert it to stardict format, it converts that css into inline css per definition, which gets preserved when you use penelope to convert that into Kobo format. It works most of the time without any need for editing so now I try to find mdict versions of things rather than stardict and do that two-point conversion, because there's a higher likelihood that the person that made that mdict dictionary put some effort into making it look nice too.).
I also combined it all with Moby Thesaurus II because I really wanted some kind of thesaurus to do look ups with but didn't want to make a new custom dictionary entry just for that (in order to keep the dictionary menu as lean as possible). As penelope presents results in the order you merge definitions in, the order I used is Wordnet 3.1, GCIDE, Moby Thesaurus (that way, I get the concise Wordnet 3.1 definition first, can scroll backwards to get the Thesaurus entry, or scroll forwards to get the more detailed GCIDE entry if I want it). And all done with only free dictionaries too. To me, that's comprehensive enough.
