vileru Wrote:The capabilities and interface of the program are beyond my expectations. We're lucky to have you here, cb. However, one thing I think the "Getting Started" page can benefit from is more clarity on what type of files can be imported. I originally tried importing an HTML file and then a .doc file to no avail, but then everything imported perfectly once I tried a .txt file.

Tori-kun Wrote:Is there a chance to make Epwing2Anki format the .tsv output file conveniently like this?

Expression*|Reading*|Meaning*|Audio*|J-E Sentence**|J-E Sentence TL|JJ

|= is a tab
*from japanese.txt Rikai-sama save file
**i.e. appended from Kenkyusha or any other dict EPWING file
TL=translation

rich_f Wrote:Also, is it possible to add a flag for "Full" searches, a la EBWin? I think that may be contributing to some of my "misses," -- for example, 恥をかく doesn't show up in Kenkyuusha 5th edition when I run the program normally. BUT it's in there, just not as a headword. It's found under 恥, with its own definition. Maybe in case a definition or sentences don't show up using the regular mode, try with Full mode? (Because using Full mode on everything is a)overkill and b)slows everything down considerably.)

rich_f Wrote:Oh, I think I figured out at least *part* of my problem with PDIC. The ini file that comes with Eijiro has to be installed in the main PDIC program directory with the other Eijiro PDIC files-- so just copy everything in the PDIC-UNI directory and paste it in the program's directory.

Now to try to figure out the rest of it.

Sebastian Wrote:Would it be possible to make Epwing2Anki recognize not-ascii characters in paths?

rich_f Wrote:One thing I noticed: In order to get fewer words left out of the final list, use all of the dictionaries you have, even if you won't use their output. Using Tatoeba for sentences reduced my "Can't find a sentence for this" number from 40 to 17 out of 332 words. I used the "mark source" feature to flag all of the Tatoeba stuff, and I can just nuke it from the list as I feel like it, and my placeholders are still there for when I want to add sentences from DictScrape and/or ALC.

If there was just a way to take care of those last 17 words, as well as the 7 that don't have any definitions at all, so that they at least show up in the output list in the order I put them, then that would be perfect.

So here's a Feature Request for something else to add to the preferences: Something like, "Include all entries from input list in output list in order, even if nothing is found." It would make it easier to troubleshoot why those entries don't get found, and would probably be a lot easier to implement than Full Search.

rich_f Wrote:Another Feature Request would be a button to save the log at the end that gives the final report of what was found and what wasn't, so I have something to reference to without having to create a new doc and copy/paste. But it's not a big priority. Just something that would be nice. I'd rather have the other thing.

cb4960 Wrote:For the 17 that don't have example sentences, you can just copy them from the results dialog, paste them into a new word list, and run Epwing2Anki again without the "Create a separate card for each example sentence" option checked. But yeah, I can probably add your suggested feature.

cb4960 Wrote:Until then, you can right-click on the Result dialog, select View Source, and then do File -> Save.

rich_f Wrote:You sir, rock.

EDIT: Just ran my list of 332 words through, and it generated ~2200 sentences, and left the placeholders for all of the "huh?" words in place perfectly so I can deal with them as I need to.

No problems at all.

Quote:17:05:55.012: Epwing2Anki version: 1.4.0.0
17:05:55.012: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
17:05:55.012: FormMain_Load
17:06:13.545: Selected Dictionary: 『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』
17:06:26.870: Selected Dictionary: 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』
17:06:40.715: Selected Dictionary: 『広辞苑　第四版』
17:06:41.655: Sorry, this EPWING dictionary is not supported yet.
17:06:50.805: Selected Dictionary: 『三省堂　スーパー大辞林』
17:08:37.515: FormMain_FormClosing

kitakitsune Wrote:Can you add a back button to the program?

Like if I choose the wrong examples can I just hit back instead of doing the whole set over again?

Quote:In manual disambiguation mode, automatically choose an entry in current dictionary based on the reading and expression of the previous manual disambiguation for the same word in a previous dictionary. This automatic selection will only take place if a single entry matches the reading and expression.

rich_f Wrote:I have another suggestion for the "options" list. Daijirin has an annoying habit of having sample sentences like this:

___開店。 (大辞林2)

With the word you want in there omitted. (The word I want in there is 本日 (ほんじつ).)

It would be neat if there was a way to tell the program that when it encounters this series of characters: ___ in a 大辞林 sample sentence, it should replace the ___ with the word from the list.

rich_f Wrote:Also, a general question-- cb, I seem to recall one of your programs could take a word list and compare it against another file. Is there one that does that, or am I just remembering something wrong? What I'm looking for is something where I can export my deck into a tsv/txt file, and compare it with a word list before wasting a lot of time finding out I'm adding words I've already added.

It would be a lot faster than searching word by word, especially if the word list is ~2-4k long. (I'm building one of those right now for N1, based on a few vocab builder books, but I don't want to waste time learning words I already know!)

kazeatari Wrote:While I was reading v1.4 new features...

Quote:In manual disambiguation mode, automatically choose an entry in current dictionary based on the reading and expression of the previous manual disambiguation for the same word in a previous dictionary. This automatic selection will only take place if a single entry matches the reading and expression.

...I thought that maybe you can make epwing2anki add a tag for words that are written in the same way (homographs) and a tag for words that have the same reading (homophones), because they are often the most hard to learn.
So if I want I can select the tag on anki and focus only the words that are probably the most tricky.

rich_f Wrote:Actually, I thought of *one more feature* that would make this program perfect (for me). I have always had a "reading" field in my deck, where Anki automatically generates the reading in hiragana for sentences. (Using MeCab, I think? I forget.)

What would be awesome would be a way to generate hiragana/furigana reading for the example sentences on the fly as well, to save the trouble of having to get Anki to do it for each entry. (Anki doesn't generate the reading field on import, unfortunately. At least not for me.)

If there isn't a way to do include it in E2A, is there a program out there that already does this? (In batches, anyway.) I don't care if a few readings are a little off, I can always tweak that later. I just want the 90-95% that I know are low-hanging fruit to be taken care of.

rich_f Wrote:...Also, a general question-- cb, I seem to recall one of your programs could take a word list and compare it against another file. Is there one that does that, or am I just remembering something wrong? What I'm looking for is something where I can export my deck into a tsv/txt file, and compare it with a word list before wasting a lot of time finding out I'm adding words I've already added.

It would be a lot faster than searching word by word, especially if the word list is ~2-4k long. (I'm building one of those right now for N1, based on a few vocab builder books, but I don't want to waste time learning words I already know!)