Pocketbook dictionary format revisted

[Marco77]

Maybe override the Dictionary.app executable with your own program, but you'd have to implement how it interacts with the rest of the framework

//! \defgroup Dictionary Dictionary functions
//! \{
// Dictionary functions

char **EnumDictionaries();
int OpenDictionary(const char *name);
void CloseDictionary();
int LookupWord(const char *what, char **word, char **trans);
int LookupWordExact(const char *what, char **word, char **trans);
int LookupPrevious(char **word, char **trans);
int LookupNext(char **word, char **trans);

//! \brief GetWordListWithPrefix get up to maxWords words with given prefix from current dictionary.
//! Function is not reentrant
//! \param prefix - prefix to find words (in utf-8)
//! \param maxWords - maximum words to find (should not be > 255)
//! \param wordList - resulting list of words (in utf-8), caller should not free the list
//! \return number of words found or 0 on error
int GetWordListWithPrefix(const char *prefix_utf8, int maxWords, char ***wordList);

void OpenDictionaryView(iv_wlist *wordlist, const char *dicname);
void OpenControlledDictionaryView(pointer_to_word_hand_t pointer_handler, iv_wlist *wordlist, const char *dicname);
void OpenFastTranslation(pointer_to_word_hand_t pointer_handler, iv_wlist *wordlist, int pos, const char *dicname);
//! \}

OpenNotepad, CreateNote


It's sad, but the built-in app is lacking (navigating between multiple entries for the same word, for instance)

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by Marco77

It's sad, but the built-in app is lacking (navigating between multiple entries for the same word, for instance)

Ah, that's going to annoy the f*ck out of me. I could introduce symbols like "2" and "3" behind the search term, so that if you want the second entry you put "2" directly behind your search term, if you want the third "3", etc. Still, rather unelegant and it would need an explanation, which I don't know how to implement. Maybe a last sentence in a split article "For next page search for keyword2".

I already hate that you can't lookup words from the dictionary by tapping/holding them. If that was possible, I could chain the definitions that way.

[ezdiy]

https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ionary-support

Seriously, ditch the internal dictionary in the long term. koreader supports stardict directly. I think best would be just hack koreader to pose as Dictionary.app too, the script invoking its dictionary lookup dialog routine directly even w/o book opened.

[Markismus]

@ezdiy I adapted the script towards Stardict the last week and towards Koreader, today. The result is beautiful! I finally got html-support for Stardict working as I liked.
The Stardict Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed. is now well aligned and in color/gray-scale.

[In-Feara]

Hi
Could you please try to convert this greek-english dictionary to .dic format?
I've looked for a ready one everywhere, but unfortunately I can't find one.
I found the dictionary here: https://www.babylon-software.com/fre...ish/58402.html
I would be eternally grateful for your help, trying to do this by myself has honestly driven me a little insane.
Thank you so much in advance

[Markismus]

@In-Feara

I've put it through pyglossary to transform it into Stardict-format. After that I put that through the script to generate xdxf-format and pocketbook dic-format. The results are here.

I can't test it anymore, since my Pocketbook went back to Amazon.de. I haven't found configuration files for the Greek language, so morphemes and keyboard are for english. (So it could be hard to manually input search terms and it won't recognize conjugations.)

Still, I hope it is useful. Let me know!

[In-Feara]

@Markismus
It works with the Greek keyboard, so inputting conjugations isn't much of a problem It works like a charm, thank you so much!

[Lykke]

Does anyone know where I can get the stardict-editor for Windows? It's not bundled with Stardict and can't find it through my internet searches…

[nhedgehog]

Found 3 versions in the depths of my harddrive. Have fun.
(PS: Since 7z files are not accepted here I had to zip my 7zip archive)

[Lykke]

Originally Posted by nhedgehog

Found 3 versions in the depths of my harddrive. Have fun.
(PS: Since 7z files are not accepted here I had to zip my 7zip archive)

Hey thanks, much appreciated.

[eMole]

Last version for Windows:
https://github.com/lpdevs/free-dicti...t-editor-3.0.1

For Linux its name is StarDict Tools.

[AnimalOfArt]

Originally Posted by Markismus

I've succesfully converted Liddell-Scott-Jones, Oxford's Learners dictionary, Duden (de-de), an latin-english dictionary, Nouveau Littre 2011, the Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed.and Wordnet.

I tried to convert the xdxf of Duden to stardict with pyglossary, but it fails

Exception in Tkinter callback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\pyglossary-master\ui\ui_tk.py", line 130, in CallWrapper__call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Python\pyglossary-master\ui\ui_tk.py", line 1120, in convert
finalOutputFile = self.glos.convert(
File "C:\Python\pyglossary-master\pyglossary\glossary.py", line 1040, in convert
if not self.read(
File "C:\Python\pyglossary-master\pyglossary\glossary.py", line 663, in read
result = self.readFunctions[format].__call__(
File "C:\Python\pyglossary-master\pyglossary\plugins\xdxf\__init__.py", line 89, in read
xdxf = XML(f.read())
File "src\lxml\etree.pyx", line 3214, in lxml.etree.XML
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1876, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1764, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1127, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 601, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 711, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 640, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
File "<string>", line 331
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: PCDATA invalid Char value 5, line 331, column 15

[Markismus]

Originally Posted by AnimalOfArt

I tried to convert the xdxf of Duden to stardict with pyglossary, but it fails

You could convert them with the script, too.
I've uploaded the result to the same place.

[AnimalOfArt]

Thank you very much!!

[Markismus]

I've tweaked the script a bit. Apparently, it stumbled over some unknown tags and didn't convert '&' when it was in the <key>-tag.

The resulting PONS EN-DE dictionary with 110k entries is uploaded at the same place. and seems ok. However, let me know if further testing reveals conversion errors.