Feeling like a n00b, but, I just updated Rikaichan and noticed the leftmost defiintion column is super narrow now, like only one or two words fit per line. Any way to adjust?

No, Idea. I don't use rikaichan. I think I remember better when I input the information into some sort of dictionary rather than having it popup for a second. I'd like to know how you feel about it, however. What do you use it for? How does it help?

I don't use it a lot, but the Lookup Bar thingy is what I use, for the Heisig kanji to quickly refresh/use for mnemonics if I feel it necessary, or simply if I'm unsatisfied with whatever mixed English/monolingual dictionaries (I forgot, ahibba posted a link a while ago, the page had some really good dictionaries though I think) I put into Stardict. I love Stardict, just a cpl hotkeys when I'm studying in Anki and voila! popup.

As you hover over Japanese words on web pages, it will look it up in a dictionary for you. If you press the shift key, it will switch to info about the first kanji in the compound, including the radicals, the frequency, references to various dictionaries, including the Heisig number. Press shift again, and it will look it up in a "name" dictionary, showing you the various pronunciations that are used in person and place names. The main thing for me is that it is so much faster than any other way to look up words.

IceCream Wrote:i still use rikaichan too much. its an bad habit to get into, that i probably can't break without a popup j-j dictionary. stardict never worked for me... ：（

im not sure what you mean by definition column nest0r?

oh, have you tried "adjust document size"? also, is it maybe that your browser is squashing it?

Stardict works perfectly for me, in any program! No more alt-tabbing to Firefox or whatever. Bwa ha ha. Most of the definitions, even though I've got English dictionaries in there, are monolingual and have a right-click/save option. So handy. ^_^

I fixed it, apparently if you search with kana input, the more kanji possibilities there are, the more it will squash the column as an unwrapped row of kanjis (yes, I'm being folksy with the 's') trails off into infinity to the right.

Does stardict have monolingual Japanese dictionaries available??

mezbup Wrote:Does stardict have monolingual Japanese dictionaries available??

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/files/

(Scroll down and click stardict-dict-babylon/ja, stardict-dictionaries-ja, etc. for some of the ones I remember getting... )