Index of Custom Dictionaries for Kobo eReader

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by ariel026

Is there a good Spanish custom dictionary? The original one that comes with the Kobo is not very good.

Hi.
Are you searching a spanish-spanish dictionary or else?

[ariel026]

Originally Posted by Owl_

Hi.
Are you searching a spanish-spanish dictionary

Yes. I'd appreciate it if you could help me find a good one, thanks!

[prgdm]

Hello,

I have been trying to convert A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew and Skeat to the Kobo dictionary format. I have converted the HTML available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10625 into what should be Penelope-compliant XML, as attached. But when I run the Penelope command line, I am left with an output zip containing only a 4kB file named 'words', without any of the entry files.

I have put a version of the xml file, named mideng.xml, into the penelope folder, and I am running the following command-line command (on Windows):

python -m penelope -i mideng.xml -j xml -f en -t en -p kobo -o dicthtml

Could anyone help?

Thank you very much in advance,
Peter Day-Milne

[Owl_]

Originally Posted by prgdm

Hello,

I have been trying to convert A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew and Skeat to the Kobo dictionary format. I have converted the HTML available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10625 into what should be Penelope-compliant XML, as attached. But when I run the Penelope command line, I am left with an output zip containing only a 4kB file named 'words', without any of the entry files.

I have put a version of the xml file, named mideng.xml, into the penelope folder, and I am running the following command-line command (on Windows):

python -m penelope -i mideng.xml -j xml -f en -t en -p kobo -o dicthtml

Could anyone help?

Thank you very much in advance,
Peter Day-Milne

Check thanks

[prgdm]

Ah, I've solved the problem now -- Penelope doesn't like any xml content except its own defined elements.

So then: I have now converted A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew and Skeat to the Kobo dictionary format. I used the HTML available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10625 , converted it to Penelope-compliant XML using the Javascript DOM, and then produced the dictionary using Penelope.

I hope that this will be of interest to people.

I have also produced an HTML version of the Canterbury Tales without the interleaved translations (which I find annoying). This is highly suitable for conversion into e-reader formats.

With best wishes,
Peter Day-Milne

[hobnail]

Originally Posted by prgdm

Ah, I've solved the problem now -- Penelope doesn't like any xml content except its own defined elements.

So then: I have now converted A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew and Skeat to the Kobo dictionary format. I used the HTML available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10625 , converted it to Penelope-compliant XML using the Javascript DOM, and then produced the dictionary using Penelope.

I hope that this will be of interest to people.

I have also produced an HTML version of the Canterbury Tales without the interleaved translations (which I find annoying). This is highly suitable for conversion into e-reader formats.

With best wishes,
Peter Day-Milne

Dern, that Middle English is a tough row to hoe. I think I'd rather read the Chaucer for Children's version; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43984

[Majorix]

Originally Posted by Owl_

I converted Wordnet 3 Infused English -Turkish. I improved it with:

- more IPA phonetics
- inflections

Thank you very much for this, I downloaded it.

[Flaviocc]

Hi guys,

I have new dictionaries and want to share, but I don't know how to convert them.

If anyone can do that, I really thank you.

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by Flaviocc

I have new dictionaries and want to share, but I don't know how to convert them.

If anyone can do that, I really thank you.

This cannot be converted to a Kobo dictionary. The dic and aff files are used for spell checking.

[prgdm]

Originally Posted by hobnail

Dern, that Middle English is a tough row to hoe. I think I'd rather read the Chaucer for Children's version; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43984

Ah, no, it's not that tough! It hardly compares to reading a different language--one picks up the differences quickly. It's worth a little effort. (Some knowledge of German and, to a lesser extent, the Romance languages also helps with Middle English).

I've also produced a Kobo dictionary that adds a complete Chaucer glossary, including all spelling variants, to the dictionary mentioned above; which I am finding is working perfectly, and making it much easier to read the Chaucer really fluently. But the glossary is copyrighted, so it'll be private-use unless the author gives me sharing permission (for which I'll ask).

[prgdm]

Originally Posted by Owl_

Check thanks

Sorry--I didn't see this before I'd solved the problem myself! Thank you anyway though.

[Flaviocc]

Originally Posted by Semwize

This cannot be converted to a Kobo dictionary. The dic and aff files are used for spell checking.

Thank you, didn't know that.

I have a patch here (an user sent to me) and inside the folder I saw a hyphenation DIC file (hyph_en.dic). The .dic to hyphenation works?

[hcartstudio]

Originally Posted by Semwize

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3 variants of the English-Romanian dictionary
Choose.

And write which one is optimal.

Which link doesn’t work?

Thank you for the reply.
Sorry that i didn't check sooner. I must've missed the links.
I tried installing them, just by putting them in the dict folder on the kobo, but they are not installing?
It keeps saying to sync that a new dict. needs to pe updated/downloaded and inside a book it's just shows Englisht-(blank)

[Semwize]

Originally Posted by hcartstudio

Thank you for the reply.
Sorry that i didn't check sooner. I must've missed the links.
I tried installing them, just by putting them in the dict folder on the kobo, but they are not installing?
It keeps saying to sync that a new dict. needs to pe updated/downloaded and inside a book it's just shows Englisht-(blank)

You need to rename dicthtml-en-ro [1].zip and dicthtml-en-ro [2].zip to dicthtml-d1.zip and dicthtml-d2.zip. Then add in Kobo eReader.conf

[ApplicationPreferences]
ExtraLocales=ro, d1, d2

You can use dictutil to do it error free and automatically.

[joss]

Sorry if this has been already posted .
You can find on GitHub, the Wiktionnaire here :

https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-rea...eleases/tag/fr

It is updated everyday at midnight and contains 327 251 entries so far
( vs 80 000 for Littré 1876 , 35 000 for Academie Francaise 1935
and 35 000 for the default Robert micro 2013 ).
Despite having more entries, I think all 4 dictionaries should be used, each
of them having a specific advantage or drawback. In the case of the
Wiktionnaire, it does not include conjugations nor ethymology.

Different meanings are included, if any, for different french speaking locations
( eg Belgium, Quebec, etc ) .

I also posted to the french forum but I thought it might be useful
as well for non french speaking natives.