I do remember editing the exploded .html to "re-use" (redefine) the dictionary tags used in the .lit ebook so as to render those tags as normal HTML tags. I used the following styles (in bold) embedded in
deen.htm:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"+//ISBN 0-9673008-1-9//DTD OEB 1.0.1 Document//EN"
"http://openebook.org/dtds/oeb-1.0.1/oebdoc101.dtd">
<html xmlns:tei-ms="http://schemas.microsoft.com/reader/ebdict">
<head>
<title>German-English Dictionary</title>
<style>
tei-ms:def {font-style: normal}
tei-ms:div2 {display: block; page-break-before: always}
tei-ms:entry {display: block; margin-bottom: 1em}
tei-ms:sense {display: block; text-indent: 0; margin-left: 10%; text-align:left}
tei-ms:orth {font-weight: bold; color:blue}
tei-ms:lbl {font-style: italic; color:green}
tei-ms:pos {font-style: italic; color:black}
tei-ms:xr {font-style: italic}
div.toc {display: block; page-break-before: right}
span.label {color:#00c000}
span.num {color:black}
span.bold {color:blue}
span.pos {color:#ff0000}
b {font-weight:bold; color:purple}
i {color: blue}
</style>
</head>
This then allows each definition entry within the German-English dictionary to convert with my (overriden) styles and hopefully convert better. Below is an example what the dictionary entry in the
deen.htm looked like:
Code:
<tei-ms:entry><a name="abfragen">
<tei-ms:form>
<tei-ms:orth>abfragen</tei-ms:orth><br />
</tei-ms:form>
<tei-ms:sense>
<span class="pos">v/t</span>
<i> Schule: </i>quiz <i>or </i>question <i>someone </i>(<b><i>über </i>
</b>about), test <i>someone </i>orally</tei-ms:sense>
</tei-ms:entry><br><br>
<tei-ms:entry><a name="Abfuhr">
<tei-ms:form>
<tei-ms:orth>Abfuhr</tei-ms:orth><br />
</tei-ms:form>
<tei-ms:sense>
<span class="pos">f</span> removal<br />
<span class="pos">fig</span>
<b>
<i>jemandem eine Abfuhr erteilen </i>
</b>rebuff (<span class="pos">colloq</span>, <i>besiegen: </i>lick) someone</tei-ms:sense>
</tei-ms:entry><br><br>
Try those style substitutions and see if they help.
p.s. I had done this conversion, for my own personal use, in April 2007, before I joined Mobileread.com.
