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pzack · 09-14-2022, 11:34 AM

Good afternoon M. Markismus,

Thank you for your response.

I am curious to know if you have and use an e-reader with koreader or some other program that uses stardict which allows word look-up in the text that you are reading.

Because, it would be difficult for you to investigate this problem without duplicating what I use on my end. And you do have the actual data; I sent you a small chunk of the file which is the same throughout the file. You had, I assume, run the csv file that you created with perl through pyglossary? You could install the converted csv file on your e-reader in stardict and search one of the words in the snippet that was converted. You could see if Pyglossary tags a file differently when you convert the csv file.

I have used pyglossary on another dictionary conversion of a .dsl file which went rather smoothly. Pyglossary may have tagged a field with output4 but it does not appear in the four files produced as stardict files. Thus, does that really explain this occurrence?

Goldendict is not stardict, as I am sure you know, as the files are different. This does not help me as Goldendict is a stand-alone application for windows and maybe linux and not used on e-readers-at least not on mine with koreader installed. Koreader uses Stardict. And Stardict has the instant word look-up feature.

I have Goldendict with some dictionaries installed on my windows machine.

If you are willing, or someone reading this post is willing, to give me CLEAR!, step-by-step instructions for installing stardit-tools and stardict-editor on either windows or linux(whatever is easiest)I would try Stardict. I tried to install these applications without success; there was always something missing or I could not get it to run. Googling was not a help. And it seems Stardict has been substituted by Pyglossary.

Well, I could convert it to stardict XML but I don't know how and I would need help doing it. However, you could do this since you have the txt snippet and you have the csv. But, again, if you can't duplicate stardict in koreader then I think that you are limited in achieving a functioning stardict dictionary with my file.

I really do appreciate your time and efforts to help me and I hate to give up on this.

I assume that the csv file is a good file to use in pyglossary; the headwords are seen and searchable in the files converted to stardict.

Cordially,
pz

09-14-2022, 11:34 AM	#51
pzack Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2022 Device: kobo sage,elipsa	Good afternoon M. Markismus, Thank you for your response. I am curious to know if you have and use an e-reader with koreader or some other program that uses stardict which allows word look-up in the text that you are reading. Because, it would be difficult for you to investigate this problem without duplicating what I use on my end. And you do have the actual data; I sent you a small chunk of the file which is the same throughout the file. You had, I assume, run the csv file that you created with perl through pyglossary? You could install the converted csv file on your e-reader in stardict and search one of the words in the snippet that was converted. You could see if Pyglossary tags a file differently when you convert the csv file. I have used pyglossary on another dictionary conversion of a .dsl file which went rather smoothly. Pyglossary may have tagged a field with output4 but it does not appear in the four files produced as stardict files. Thus, does that really explain this occurrence? Goldendict is not stardict, as I am sure you know, as the files are different. This does not help me as Goldendict is a stand-alone application for windows and maybe linux and not used on e-readers-at least not on mine with koreader installed. Koreader uses Stardict. And Stardict has the instant word look-up feature. I have Goldendict with some dictionaries installed on my windows machine. If you are willing, or someone reading this post is willing, to give me CLEAR!, step-by-step instructions for installing stardit-tools and stardict-editor on either windows or linux(whatever is easiest)I would try Stardict. I tried to install these applications without success; there was always something missing or I could not get it to run. Googling was not a help. And it seems Stardict has been substituted by Pyglossary. Well, I could convert it to stardict XML but I don't know how and I would need help doing it. However, you could do this since you have the txt snippet and you have the csv. But, again, if you can't duplicate stardict in koreader then I think that you are limited in achieving a functioning stardict dictionary with my file. I really do appreciate your time and efforts to help me and I hate to give up on this. I assume that the csv file is a good file to use in pyglossary; the headwords are seen and searchable in the files converted to stardict. Cordially, pz Last edited by pzack; 09-14-2022 at 11:42 AM.