Hello, first of all -- I discovered the Sword Project a few days ago, and I am very impressed by the huge amount of modules available. Praise God!
I am working on creating dictionaries for the Sword Project, using the CEDICT project (a freely available Chinese dictionary; I already contacted the author about his copyright terms and hope he'll rely soon). As you might know, the standard Chinese (Mandarin) uses the Pinyin system for transliteration. Therefore, I created three dictionaries, so that words can be searched by english translation, characters and pinyin. (This is for simplified characters, once that works, I'll do the same for traditional characters.) I converted the GB2312 dictionary file to UTF-8, then used a perl script to generate the dictionary files (calling addld). So far, so good. The dictionary has 15000 to 20000 entries (depening on direction) and the pinyin and english dictionaries work well. I still have to do some formatting (tone marks, nice layout etc). Now, after this lengthy introduction, on to my questions and issues (anybody still reading?): (general issues) - Has anybody come up with an utility to add more than one entry? It should be easy to modify addld to read its input from a file, but I don't have the time to do the programming right now, and I was hoping that somebody already did that. On my slow little Linux server, creating the dictionaries takes about fifty minutes -- just because the script has to start tens of thousands of processes! - What are the ThML tags for formatting available in the Sword Project viewers? Is there something like a table tag? I'd like to group entries e.g. by same pronounciation. Also, does the big tag work? It would be useful to display the characters in a bigger typeface. (Issues with the windows version of the Sword Project and the Glory Union Bible, Simplified Characters) - There is some confusion with the code tables used to display text in the windows software. Apparently, in the bible text windows the text is displayed as GB2312 rather than UTF-8. The search combo box uses the system font, which is not capable of displaying anything else than iso8859-1 on my machine, so I don't see character at all. (Have to try out Windows 2000, though. Might be better on that platform.) What is the situation for other platforms (Linux, Mac OS X)? Is the text of the Glory Union Bible displayed as GB2312 also? If yes, I could try to keep the definitions as UTF-8, but encode the search terms as GB2312. - When looking up a term, it is displayed in the upper left corner, in a small, blue typeface. This is not useful for the characters dictionary, because the term is displayed in a Western encoding, not in Unicode... if I put the characters inside the definition, they are displayed just fine. Can the display of the search term in the definition window somehow be suppressed? Thanks for your help! Greetings and blessings, Christian Renz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.web42.com/crenz/ - http://www.web42.com/ "The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle." -- C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children
