Pocketbook dictionary

[preempalver]

Originally Posted by daniel_hokkaido

Hi, I have the pb603. The french dictionary can't highlight a whole word if there is an accent in it e.g République ...if highlighted it either can select on either side of the accented 'e' or just the e itself. USing the keys you can slowly move round to select words from their beginning (bar before first letter) and this works..but this is v slow and not useful.

ANy ideas?

I tried to replicate the problem without success. If you've compiled your own dictionary, can you provide me your dictionary sources and your phonems.txt, keyboard.txt and collates.txt?

[paola]

Originally Posted by preempalver

yes I used converter.exe . Since converter.exe needs UTF-8 coding, I made sure that all files were using that code. The resulting file from my first freelang2txt.exe conversion was a plain text file, with terms and descriptions separated by two spaces, so I assumed converter.exe needed just plain text.

I just uploaded in my previous message an improved dictionary, and I'll take a look to other english dictionaries you kindly provided me.

thanks for the clarification, and thanks for the improved dictionary!

[preempalver]

Originally Posted by daniel_hokkaido

Hi, I have the pb603. The french dictionary can't highlight a whole word if there is an accent in it e.g République ...if highlighted it either can select on either side of the accented 'e' or just the e itself. USing the keys you can slowly move round to select words from their beginning (bar before first letter) and this works..but this is v slow and not useful.

ANy ideas?

Your ebooks are in epub format, perhaps?
actually it's a problem regarding italian books also, and I wonder if appears in other languages. After some tests involving a maddening procedure for embedding a font in epub files, I think it's something related to epub interpreter, because I tried the same book in txt, rtf, pdb formats and there's no problem with them, the word is entirely highlighted.

So my advice is using calibre to convert in rtf and check if the problem persists.

[daniel_hokkaido]

thanks very much, i will try that.

[sarkash]

i needed some dictionaries which were available only in Babylon(BGL) format and so after an hour of research was able to successfully convert them to PocketBook(DIC) format. so, if anyone's interested, i can explain the whole process in details.

Babylon has tons of dictionaries for free that you can download:
http://www.babylon.com/free-dictionaries/

[rkomar]

Originally Posted by sarkash

i needed some dictionaries which were available only in Babylon(BGL) format and so after an hour of research was able to successfully convert them to PocketBook(DIC) format. so, if anyone's interested, i can explain the whole process in details.

Babylon has tons of dictionaries for free that you can download:
http://www.babylon.com/free-dictionaries/

I'm interested! Did you still need to use the converter.exe program?

[troll05]

I'm interested too

[paola]

Originally Posted by troll05

I'm interested too

+1

[dpayment]

Originally Posted by paolamanzini

+1

me three please. I've been trying to convert different dictionaries with limited success, and those I've been able to find have been so small as to be virtually meaningless.

[sarkash]

OK, the process is threefold, but its pretty straight forward, just simple conversions, nothing more;

BGL --> DICT --> XDXF --> DIC

Note: According to PB's "converter.exe" instructions, the second conversion step(dict to xdxf) could have been avoided but "converter.exe" couldn't process the converted DICT files.



Step 1(Linux only):

There is a converter called “dictconv” for BGL to DICT, but its only available for linux. In my case, I have ubuntu running in a virtual machine. I just typed the following and “dictconv” was installed :

sudo apt-get install dictconv


Now, the conversion step: (“test.BGL” being your Babylon dictionary file, also called Glossary file)

dictconv test.BGL -o test.ifo


The above command produces 3 files:
test.dict
test.idx
test.ifo


Note: if you're using another linux distribution, here is the link to dictconv page.
and some other links I found regarding dictconv installation and conversion: link1 and link2



Step 2(Windows/Linux):

There is an app which converts many different dictionary formats, called Linguae. Here is the link.
In Linguae you can open the “test.dict” file using

File->Open a dictionary...

and then

File->Export...

in the window which opens choose to convert to XDXF format; after conversion a file called “dict.xdxf” is created which is the one you will need for the final conversion.



Step 3(Windows):

The normal PB dictionary conversion process.

For those who never done this before, you can download it from here and then follow the instructions. If still not sure, you can always ask...

[troll05]

Ok, for me as a dumb windows user would you please be so kind to convert the two dictionaries I've added.
THX ALOT

[paola]

@sarkash: thanks and karma, though as a windows user I am afraid I won't be able to follow your steps.

[sarkash]

@paolamanzini: here you can get some xdxf free dictionaries; just one step standard PB dictionary conversion; Windows only.


@troll05: here you go... (you can also try the En-De dictionary from xdxf site; might have a better formatting)

[troll05]

THX and Karma to you

[paola]

sarkash, thanks!