1. What are some good EPWING readers available for Windows? I've tried ebview and EBWin, both seem fine. But is there something better I'm missing?

2. If you use EBWin and go to the "search" menu, there's an option you can select called "word inflector". Based on the name, it sounds like it should automatically de-inflect the words you search. So for example if I searched for 食べない it would automatically convert that into 食べる and search for that (ebview does this by default, I think). But it doesn't seem to work. Looking in the manual, they give an example of using it to search for an English word (search for "having", which gets converted into "have"). But it also specifically says:

語尾補正は日本語の検索語に対しても働きます。

So...is there something I'm missing? Does this feature work for anyone?

3. I think this might be more of a Windows question than an EBWIn question, but it's irritating me enough that I'll ask about it. If you click anywhere in the main EBWin window and start typing, it automatically moves the focus to the search box, which is a nice feature. The problem is, when I do this the first character I type ends up not being part of the conversion string and just stays around as a latin letter. So to use my previous example if I click in EBWin and type t-a-b-e-n-a-i, what I end up with in the search box is "tあべない". This doesn't happen if I click directly in the search box and then type. Another weird thing is this didn't happen in XP, but it does happen in VIsta (both using standard Microsoft IME). Does anyone who uses EBWin on Windows Vista (or 7, maybe) have this same problem?

Thanks!

I also want to know about question number 2.
Can anyone shed some more light on this? Thanks

I'm using EBWin on Windows 7, and have the exact same problem as stated on "3". Then again, the IME hasn't been working very well since I installed W7.

By the way, are there any EPWING readers for linux? I've been thinking about switching either to Ubuntu or Fedora, but can't find any EPWING readers

dbh2ppa Wrote:By the way, are there any EPWING readers for linux? I've been thinking about switching either to Ubuntu or Fedora, but can't find any EPWING readers

There is Ebview. It requires eb-library.
To install it just do:

Code:

cd /tmp
wget "ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/misc/eb/eb-4.4.1.tar.lzma"
tar --lzma -xvf eb-4.4.1.tar.lzma
cd eb-4.4.1
./configure
make
make install
cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/fujii/ebview.git ebview
cd ebview
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Then just launch "ebview". Enter the directory, where all your EPWING files are stored, in the "Path" field at the bottom of "Tools|Options...|Dictionary Search|Dictionary Group" and press the "Search Disk" button.

thank you!!!!!

...or if you're using Ubuntu you can just install the ubuntu 'ebview' package, which is much easier than compiling it yourself :-). (Plus it looks like those compilation instructions will install straight into / rather than /usr/local or similar, which has a small chance of trashing your system or confusing the next distro upgrade, and a large chance of gradually filling your system with unremovable crud if you do this sort of thing often.)

pm215 Wrote:...or if you're using Ubuntu you can just install the ubuntu 'ebview' package, which is much easier than compiling it yourself :-).

Well, pasting a bunch of commands into a console is certainly not difficult. Of course, if the package contained in Ubuntu works, then there is no harm in using it. However my version comes from a git repository and therefore contains a few bug fixes that the Ubuntu package still lacks.

pm215 Wrote:(Plus it looks like those compilation instructions will install straight into / rather than /usr/local

No, "--prefix=/usr/local" is the default for configure. You might also use "--prefix=/home/not-necessarily-root" to install into your home directory.

pm215 Wrote:a large chance of gradually filling your system with unremovable crud if you do this sort of thing often.)

Just remove the content of "/usr/local" and reinstall all self-compiled software to clean up. This is not as nice as a package manager, but works with every distro.

xaarg Wrote:Just remove the content of "/usr/local" and reinstall all self-compiled software to clean up. This is not as nice as a package manager, but works with every distro.

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