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Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - Shinichirou - 2011-12-24

Hi, everyone.

I have tried this many times and always failed… Perhaps due to my
non-existing HTML skills. Could someone kindly help?

I have a 2-3 pages word text in Japanese. There are some kanji I can’t read so I thought of putting this stuff in notepad and formatting all in HTML so that after saving the file as html I could successfully hover over words as I am used to doing when reading stuff online…

Is that possible? If yes, could someone post the successful version of the html script?

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this matter.

Thanks.

Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - Clasu - 2011-12-24

If you just want to read your text using Rikaichan, all you need to do is save the text file as .txt (use UTF-8 or other coding that works with kanji), and open it with your browser.
Worked fine with Firefox and Rikaisama.

Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - Shinichirou - 2011-12-24

Thank you.

I have not thought about that. Simply saved as "website" and everything worked just fine...xD

Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - Nagareboshi - 2011-12-24

Shinichirou Wrote:Thank you.

I have not thought about that. Simply saved as "website" and everything worked just fine...xD
Converting it is not even necessary. Simply drag and drop the file saved as .txt into an open browser window and you can use Rikaisama. Wink

Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - temporary - 2011-12-25

Use a general pop-up dictionary software like Stardict or Goldendict! Those will work in any browser, word processor, Anki, etc. with even better dictionaries. I like EDICT but it has it's limits...

Converting Microsoft Word to HTML Rikaichan - ZassouNoTsukushi - 2012-01-20

No! This does not work! Nothing mentioned in this thread works. Have any of you actually tried it?

The problem is that the formatting messes up. Normally Rikaichan puts a box with the definition next to where the mouse is (as best as possible), and if needed it expands the size of the html page. But this completely breaks whenever you have a local file, be it html or txt, it doesn't matter. The definition pops up at the END of the html page, making it basically unusable. If you move the mouse the definition goes away, and you have to scroll down in order to see it.

I've wondered if it's because my html files are formatted poorly, but it's not that. It has the html, header, body, and end tags. And even when I save a webpage with Japanese from the internet on my machine locally and then view it, the same problem occurs. Obviously there is some problem with Rikaichan functioning properly on documents saved locally in general.

This is major flaw for me and a problem I've wrestled with for a long time. I'm very surprised to find there is no mention of it in threads like this, but I've tried it on 3 different computer and had the same result each time.

Please help!