Thanks Nestor,

Granted, for some reason it worked fine after the reload as far as the dictionary is concerned with exception of not displaying the image files for special dictionary characters in the pop-up (main window displays them fine). Only change I did was keep the Meiyo dict in it's own folder in the dict folder.

Still getting a crash on trying to load a font with the program. I'll change the font to be the MS PMincho font though.

Last edited by Nukemarine (2009 December 25, 10:31 am)

I tend to type with a flow of thought method, and I'm very bad at not re-reading my submission prior to hitting submit. I'd be surprised if my paragraphs even have a coherent link.

As for granted, I think I'm using it more as a "given that" or "I'm giving you that". So yeah, it's a bad habit of using words the way I think they're used, without ever double checking that that's how they're supposed to be used. That doesn't even touch my overuse of parenthesis.

Looks like Stardict's dictionaries are no longer online? The good ones, at least. I guess they weren't 'legit', as Jarvik or someone said. The Meikyo/Babylon stuff? Looks like they're still around, though, in torrent form or somesuch. No idea how long they'll remain seeded... lucky me, I already procured the stuff I needed. I mean, I totally took the time to check whether every procured dictionary was copyrighted before snagging from sourceforge, of course, and avoided the illicitly available ones. ^_^

Last edited by nest0r (2010 April 04, 2:02 pm)

Grinkers wrote:

A little offtopic, but close.

I love using 大辞林, but it's a pain having to use yahoo or my electronic dictionary when trying to input them into Anki. Is there any way to use a J-J dictionary like richaichan to spit out text ready to be imported into Anki?

It also looks like I missed out on the stardict J-J dictionaries

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=5504&p=2 (dictionaries)

StarDict can do what Rikaichan does, re: save entry to text (either whole entry or just the word) but so far as I know neither of them make Anki-ready texts, you have to tinker with that yourself.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 April 09, 3:15 pm)

No idea, but. You'd rather be forced to stay in Firefox so you can use the 's' key, rather than say, hitting tab/space bar (the tab only once as long as the 'focus' stays on Save button) in StarDict in any program including Anki, with all those other dictionaries? Hmm. ;p

Last edited by nest0r (2010 April 09, 4:06 pm)

I see. I use Stardict in Anki all the time--it's not like I know every word in every sentence as soon as the card is made and from then onward, and I can't imagine having to put definitions for every word in every card rather than just using Stardict; I use it in various other programs, and in Firefox. Honestly, if someone makes it so I can play JDIC audio via Stardict, the only thing my individual vocab cards will have in Anki will be the original word, as a placeholder so that algorithm can work. ;p

I never use Rikaichan for a popup, hehe, just the lookup bar for the rare fuzzy kanji I come across or when I want to paste the simplest definitions somewhere like 'words of the thread' here. I don't even know, does Rikaichan perpetually popup with hover? Because I couldn't stand that and made it hotkey-only with Stardict.

I'd rather just have a macro thingy that takes texts produced in Stardict format (though it could be modified for its lesser, more limited sibling Rikaichan ;p) and arranges them in an Anki friendly import format rather than having to do find/replace/manual editing/etc. Though I guess if someone wanted to mod the actual open source programs and make it so the text file it actually creates already uses this format, parsing the keyword, reading, and definition, that'd work.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 April 09, 4:17 pm)

I have a tonne of Stardict dictionaries installed, so my results tend to be pretty long.

Actually even though I said that about the macro thingy, I just tell Stardict to remember individual words when making the text file. There's still the issue of, when I can't find those words in the Core 6000/KO2001 decks, having to make individual sound files from JDIC. So I end up having to copy down the reading and sticking that in front of the kanji in order to get it to work in mistamark's program for batch downloading. That's why I got excited then sad when cb4960 had that Rikaichan plugin. Would be nice to just see the word in Anki, use Stardict for definition + audio on the fly... or somehow go from Stardict to list of word+readings for mistamark's plugin--hmm maybe I can tinker around and send entire definitions to a text, eliminate the definition lines, reverse the kanji/kana order, add a line for 'sound:name of mp3', and voila!

I don't do clicking either, I just tab to the Save button and hit space bar, as mentioned above. And then the focus stays on the Save button so I just hit space bar from there. I do wish it was more clear cut and hotkeyed though.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 April 09, 4:35 pm)

nortalf wrote:

The Meikyo J-J dictionary is free to try with Babylon:
http://babylon.com/dictionary/meikyo/japanese/.

Unfortunately I don't have Windows, so I converted it to Stardict format. But only to try it, of course. There is already an erroneously converted file on the internets, but this one works fine and looks good:
http://i47.tinypic.com/rtdtl0.png

Since the legal status of this file is dubious, to my greatest regret I can't load it up for you to multiple hosts (see screenshot again).

Don't worry: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=99948#p99948

All I can say is that all of my Japanese dictionaries work perfectly in StarDict.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 May 28, 4:52 am)

nortalf wrote:

I used that file too, but it has character encoding errors, that caused problems in some cases for me and for jino123 above.
I converted it with the correct encoding and added some formatting and colors, now it's better than the original Babylon version.
Maybe I was too secretive, the download link is on the screenshot.
And now here.

By the way http://goldendict.org/ is another pop-up dictionary for Win and Linux and it can use Babylon and ABBYY Lingvo files.

Oh. ^_^ Cool, I'll check them out. And uh, by 'them' I mean just Goldendict. Yes.

And I must've tuned out the ローマ字 in that picture. Yes.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 May 28, 5:55 am)