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.
The current feature to append the input list doesn't quite work here. It only appends the input list if something is found. If nothing is found, then nothing is appended, so then I have to go back and compare 1500 or so entries in the output to the original 332-word input list... and that's a hassle.
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.
Re Eijiro and EPWING: I stopped banging my head against the wall trying to convert the current version of Eijiro to a useable EPWING. I need to get a better understanding of how EBStudio creates EPWING dictionaries, and I need a better idea of how to create the proper kind of index for Eijiro using grep and those kinds of tools. (It would be nice to have hiragana gloss for the entries, for example... but that's just not feasible right now.)
I'll just keep using ALC. It's good enough for the job. Eijiro is really cool as a resource, but I don't have a week to figure this out. It goes on the someday/maybe list.
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.
The current feature to append the input list doesn't quite work here. It only appends the input list if something is found. If nothing is found, then nothing is appended, so then I have to go back and compare 1500 or so entries in the output to the original 332-word input list... and that's a hassle.
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.
Re Eijiro and EPWING: I stopped banging my head against the wall trying to convert the current version of Eijiro to a useable EPWING. I need to get a better understanding of how EBStudio creates EPWING dictionaries, and I need a better idea of how to create the proper kind of index for Eijiro using grep and those kinds of tools. (It would be nice to have hiragana gloss for the entries, for example... but that's just not feasible right now.)
I'll just keep using ALC. It's good enough for the job. Eijiro is really cool as a resource, but I don't have a week to figure this out. It goes on the someday/maybe list.
Edited: 2012-07-24, 10:47 am