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yomichan: a tool for reading books with Anki vocab deck integration

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My knowledge of coding is quite limited, so please let me know if asking for this type of functionality is taking the piss as I don't know how difficult it would be to implement.

Texts obtained from Aozora Bunko have rubies that often prevent the usage of the "add word" feature. For example, the word 瓜実顔 is split into 瓜実《うりざね》顔《がお》 making it impossible to use the Rikai-chan style look up that so streamlines the process of vocabulary mining. Like others have intimated, I think a furigana rendering that doesn't affect the mouse-wheel click look up would be the best of all possible solutions.

Another distinguishing feature of Aozora Bunko texts are lines of "code," if you will, that render 外字. For example, ※[#「目+爭」、第3水準1-88-85] gives you 睜, and ※[#「(楫-木)+戈」、第3水準1-84-66] produces 戢. There is a terrific website that perhaps a few of you are already familiar with that converts Aozora Bunko's shift-JIS files in to vertical reading, furigana appended PDFs formatted for the Kindle. Their converter is somehow able to interpret this "code" and the resulting PDF displays the 外字 beautifully, furigana and all.

Thank you for the awesome plugin, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about these minor nitpicks.
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