Selecting one dictionary (French)

[roger64]

Hi

The - probably - most advanced and up-to-date French open-source dictionary is packaged by Grammalecte. In fact, it's a compound of 4 different French dictionaries within one package. The user can select the "classic" if he is a native French speaker, the "modern" if he is a foreigner, etc. It all boils down to some preferences in alternative writing.

I can select this option with Sigil (where I manually inserted the .dic and .aff files) but I cannot see in the Calibre editor if I could do it. (see screenshot)

http://www.dicollecte.org/grammalecte/telecharger.php Look for "Dictionnaires"
(see the .oxt file)

[kovidgoyal]

There is no support for choosing individual dictionaries from within oxt files. IIRC when you add an oxt file all the dictionaries in it are added. If all the dictionaries are for the same language, then only one will remain, since they overwrite each other. In that case you need separate oxt files.

[roger64]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There is no support for choosing individual dictionaries from within oxt files. IIRC when you add an oxt file all the dictionaries in it are added. If all the dictionaries are for the same language, then only one will remain, since they overwrite each other. In that case you need separate oxt files.

Thanks. It's good to know.

So, I selected one .dic and one .aff I intend to use and renamed them in /.config/calibre/dictionaries as fr-FR.dic and fr-FR.aff.

So far, it seems to be working but I hope they will not be overwritten next week (I guess they should be overwritten only when I install a new version of Grammalete dictionaries).