Epwing Grammar dictionaries

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Reply #1 - 2009 April 09, 9:55 pm
mistamark Member
From: Japan Registered: 2008-03-26 Posts: 127 Website

Does anyone know of any grammar dictionaries in epwing format?
The basic/int/adv dictionaries in epwing format would be awesome.

Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

mistamark wrote:

Does anyone know of any grammar dictionaries in epwing format?
The basic/int/adv dictionaries in epwing format would be awesome.

It would indeed be awesome, but it's also impossible unless someone wants to input all of the books by hand (or OCR it and fix all the errors by hand - equally time consuming) and then format it enough for EPWING tools to parse. EPWING dictionaries only exist where the publishers offer up electronic versions of their books (either in EPWING itself, or something an EPWING convertor understands).

I'd be willing to buy the books all over again if I could have them in EPWING. Publishers need to wake up to the 21st century and realize that not everyone wants to own several tons of thinly sliced tree that is time consuming to look something up in. People also don't want to use a different app for each dictionary, so shut up with the proprietary formats sad

You could probably get Tae Kim into EPWING with a bit of formatting & fiddling, but imo it wouldn't be worth it.

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 April 09, 10:44 pm)

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