What is the difference between the Ruby recommended by the extension and the one you recommend?


Awesome, this removes those annoying parenthesis in the text from the audio book post!

Last edited by kazelee (2008 October 27, 4:40 pm)

Windows only. Blah

Yeah, you download the linux xpi file and then open it using Open File in Firefox.


These linux Japanese fonts look a lot better than the XP ones.

Last edited by kazelee (2008 October 27, 8:08 pm)

shakkun wrote:

Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

What would you need that for? I mean, you obviously don't know the word if you need furigana so you will need to look it up, why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

Tobberoth wrote:

why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

You could say exactly the same about Rikaichan.  Just copy the word and look it up in a dictionary.

I don't know where to find such an extension, but Rikaichan could probably be modified.  Maybe asking the author would be enough to put in a toggle switch for the English bits?

Last edited by wccrawford (2008 October 27, 8:32 pm)

wccrawford wrote:

Tobberoth wrote:

why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

You could say exactly the same about Rikaichan.  Just copy the word and look it up in a dictionary.

I don't know where to find such an extension, but Rikaichan could probably be modified.  Maybe asking the author would be enough to put in a toggle switch for the English bits?

No, not at all. Rikaichan gives you everything you need in the window, which is why you don't need a separate dictionary. If you just get furigana though, what's the use? Simply learning the furigana won't teach you the word, so you would still need to use a separate dictionary. "Guessing" the reading is fine, but if you don't know it, you obviously don't know the word.

Nathanael wrote:

shakkun wrote:

Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

At your service.   Rikaichan without English glosses.

Ah! Perfect! My hero! I was just thinking how I wanted that.

Nathanael wrote:

At your service.   Rikaichan without English glosses.

Thank you so much. I've been yearning for something like this for a while. Yay!

Nathanael wrote:

・I can figure out the meaning from context.  I can't
　know the correct reading from context.  In fact this
　seems most natural.  I have an English vocabulary
　of around 40,000 words.  I've looked up the meaning
　of maybe 3,000 or them.  The rest were learned in context.
・Thus, I just want just furigana.

Quoted for truth. I would say I looked up maybe less than a hundred English words. Though a lot of words I learned were done so kinda along the lines of "Daddy, what does shit mean?" He didn't tell me the meaning, but in a funny way, he still taught me.

I would recommend using the Rikaichan without English glosses over the Furigana Injector for a few reasons

・The furigana injector confuses on and kun readings a LOT. I've hardly ever had this problem with Rikaichan. Quite simply, it's a much smarter plugin

・Ultimately, everybody's goal is to be able to read fluently without the use of furigana. My opinion is you will become more dependent upon furigana readings if you have the whole page written out for you. With Rikaichan you can just look up what you need.

・It's faster.

Tobberoth wrote:

f you just get furigana though, what's the use? Simply learning the furigana won't teach you the word, so you would still need to use a separate dictionary. "Guessing" the reading is fine, but if you don't know it, you obviously don't know the word.

I wouldn't agree with that. On top of simply learning words via context, there are many times when I know a word, but am unsure of the reading (or just plain forgot it).

Take for example 出勤.. If you had a momentary lapse and couldn't remember if it was しゅきん、　しゅうきん、　or  しゅっきん, you could give yourself a gentle reminder by hovering over that word.

How about I hypothetically send you my 大辞林 files and you hypothetically make it available for us on a hypothetical site? Or at least you would hypothetically send it back.

Last edited by alyks (2008 October 27, 10:41 pm)

A plots a brewin me thinks...