(2016-06-12, 5:45 am)jimeux Wrote:(2016-06-11, 4:08 am)Roketzu Wrote: I'm not a coder and am probably ignorant of a whole slew of reasons why this wouldn't work, perhaps even just the difference in format between the 2 dictionaries would make this task impossible, but what say you sir? If this is a no-go, would you know of any other way to go about such a task?I think pm215 is right. You'd likely need to code something yourself, and I find that homonyms often make it difficult to automate this kind of thing 100%, though it may be less of any issue in your case.
I haven't looked into how JMDict numbers its definitions, but I wouldn't be surprised if the order or even the definitions themselves differed to your monolingual ones. Even different Japanese dictionaries can differ between each other.
Oh yeah, they would absolutely differ and there would be definitions covered one way and not the other, even non-numbered English definitions that have separate Japanese entries depending on the dictionary like you said. The thing is there are crazy people like me out there who would enjoy going through and sorting it all one by one, making it neat and trying to get it right—then realizing 6 months later I should have done X differently from the start. Really living on the edge here.