12-22-2017, 09:50 AM | #1 |
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dictionary access impossible? on non-touch Kindle 4
Is there any way to select a word in koreader to look it up in a dictionary?
I have the current stable release of koreader working on my jailbroken 4.1.3 Kindle 4. This Kindle has no keyboard and no touchscreen. |
12-24-2017, 09:22 AM | #2 |
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The dictionary window itself has some keyboard support but I don't know about accessing it.
If the top menu is usable then it would work to do search (magnifying glass) → dictionary lookup. If not… I don't think there's a way. Anyway, there's some more about it here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/1623 |
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12-25-2017, 09:50 AM | #3 |
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Alas, I found the dictionary in the menu, but selecting it does nothing.
For my old K4, I think doukan is the better option. Seems a little more responsive and a lot of stardict dictionaries are usable but not pretty due to HTML horkage. Koreader (on Kindle 5+) doesn't do the best job of rendering HTML-heavy stardicts. But it looks like duokan doesn't even try: it's all <i><b><blockquote>blah,blah,blah. Hmmm. Can I remove the HTML tags from the .dict file and then rebuild the IDX file with some stardict editing tool? I tried running one dict through sed Code:
sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' test.dict I'm using Arch Linux and I don't see any stardict editor in the pacman repos. yaourt has some "stardict-tools" but it is gonna take all year to compile its now-ancient dependencies. Is there a windows binary stardict editor? Last edited by cryptocoryne; 12-25-2017 at 09:59 AM. |
12-26-2017, 09:59 AM | #4 |
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Try Liberator. It's a fork of koreader for non-touch Kindle.
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01-01-2018, 06:10 AM | #6 |
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I don't really know about editors but KOReader currently strips out HTML tags before display.
Rendering of HTML in dictionaries will likely be finished soon, see https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/1776 |
01-22-2018, 09:12 AM | #7 |
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SOLVED:
I got the stardict-tools (GUI and command line tools) from Arch user repos. To remove HTML and make a nice looking, Duokan-compatible dictionary:
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