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Software / Zbedic 1.2 Released

« on: June 18, 2007, 01:13:19 am »

I was trying to update the built information in OE to include the latest release but it seems you changed a few things that break compilation here.  Are you interested in getting the upgrade into OE?  I don't have the time to skill to do it on my own.
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I am affraid that neither I have the skills. One of the OE maintainers should help in this.

The latest OE version I could find is 9.6, which is built differently (Makefile/configure) than the latest version. The reason for this is that zbedic can be also built for desktop starting from 1.1.

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Software / Zbedic 1.2 Released

« on: June 07, 2007, 07:41:03 am »

The history and the back/forward navigation buttons has been throughly reimplemented to make them the same as the corresponding functions in a web-browser. Additionally, for faster switch between frequently used dictionaries, the dictionary pop-up list shows three most recently used dictionaries at the top. The history listing is a great help for those who learn languages, as it makes easy to revisit the unknown words that one has come upon recently. The words can be then copied to the favorite learning software (SuperMemo in my case) to make sure they will be memorized and not forgotten.

zbedic web page

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Software / Comprehensive List Of Zbedic Dictionaries

« on: March 07, 2007, 02:08:46 am »

I find more dicts in Russian site

www.badongo.com/file/2387732
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These are quite useful, but they seem to be converted from commercial (copyrighted) dictionaries. I cannot not put on the zbedic page links to copyrighted content.

Though if there are commercial dictionaries that can be actually legally purchased, I would see no problem in listing them.

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Software / Comprehensive List Of Zbedic Dictionaries

« on: March 05, 2007, 01:50:55 am »

zbedic has an amazingly large collection of free dictionaries, which are nevertheless very difficult to find. To make searching for these dictionaries easier, I created a large list of available dictionaries. The list is probably not  complete and may have many incorrect entries. I would therefore appreciate your help in correcting these existing entries or adding new dictionaries. More information can be found on the '
zbedic dictionaries page.

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Software / Announce: Geokajet 1.0

« on: November 02, 2006, 01:35:24 am »

There are some screenshots on the SourceForge page.

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Software / Announce: Geokajet 1.0

« on: November 01, 2006, 10:56:35 pm »

So all this is is a simplified html viewer?  It doesn't even take advantage of a gps unit?
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There are other applications that can connect with GPS (e.g. qpegps). But, since this is open source, you are welcome to add GPS support.

I created this small application because I was disappointed with opera messing the layout of geocaching pages. And I did not try to double the functionality of what was already available, but create something useful for geocaching.

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Software / Serving Wikipedia Locally On The Z

« on: October 30, 2006, 09:54:44 am »

It doesn't have any pictures, just text.
Google should find it for you. It is 412MB and slows down launching of zbedic.
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The current solution is to to check the "fast load" box for zbedic, if you do not mind having less RAM. The right solution would be implementing "lazy" loading of dictionaries, but I have never had time to do it.

Images for wikipedia would probably take too much space. It is possible to have images in zbedic starting from 1.1, but nobody has so far tried it with Wikipedia.

To have two copies of zbedic, you would probably need to edit "control" files in .ipk. But I do not recommed this solution.

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Software / Announce: Geokajet 1.0

« on: October 29, 2006, 02:47:04 pm »

GeoKajet is a geocaching application for Qtopia. If you do not know what geocaching is, visit the geocaching web site at http://www.geocaching.com.

GeoKajet can:
    * Display cache descriptions from www.geocaching.com page in a nice, single column format, appropriate for small screens.
    * Decode encrypted hints.

You can also view cache descriptions in an HTML browser, such as Opera or NetFront, or using a PDF viewer. But these programs consume more memory on your PDA and are slower to load. Besides, the original layout of geocaching web pages or PDF files is not really suitable for small screens. GeoKajet solves this problem by simplifying HTML and using a lightweight HTML browser to display it.

Home page: http://geokajet.sourceforge.net/
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geokajet/

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Software / Wikipedia projects

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:13:43 pm »

i used a linux box to do this but i didnt think about dictzip. i have built libbedic and mkbedic from the sources in sourceforge. the trick is to figure out the format mkbedic accepts and convert wordnet to that format. that is where i am stuck. I cant figure out the format well.

tovarish
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The bedic simplified format, which is accepted by mkbedic, is described in:
[a href=\"http://bedic.cvs.sourceforge.net/bedic/libbedic/doc/bedic-format.txt?view=log]http://bedic.cvs.sourceforge.net/bedic/lib...at.txt?view=log[/url]
and you can find a simple dictionary at:
http://bedic.cvs.sourceforge.net/bedic/lib...le.dic?view=log

(I have just noticed that the links from the bedic web page does not work - I have to fix them).

I hope this will solve your problem.

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Software / Wikipedia projects

« on: October 17, 2006, 10:36:55 am »

Hi

If you need people i am willing to convert wordnet 2.1 to zbedic since the old one is 1.6. I just need a sample dic file that can get me started. I tried the sample in bedic sources but it doesnt work when i converted it and loaded it in zbedic

tovarish
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Before you can open a dictionary in zbedic, you need to index and sort it with 'mkbedic' (or 'xerox') and then compress it with 'dictzip'. You will find sources for mkbedic and some documentation in [a href=\"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51673&package_id=56566]libbedic_version.tgz[/url]. dictzip should be available as a separate package on most Linux distros.

Compiling for Windows may be tricky. You will probably need cygwin for this.

Let me know if you have any problems.

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Software / Wikipedia projects

« on: October 02, 2006, 12:10:53 pm »

Hi rafm,

do you think there might be an option to get a zbedic wikipedia by development by donation as described on the zbedic sourceforge bedic webpage http://bedic.sourceforge.net/fddd.html?  I would donate for that.  This way would be faster than me learning new scripting languages. 

thanks
george
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Hi Georg,

I would really like to invest some time and prepare such scripts, but I am currently too busy to do this. This is why I do not extend the list of TODO items on the donation page.

Ideally I would like to see more people involved in the development of zbedic and its dictionaries around the SourceForge project. If anybody is willing to spend his time and use his skills to improve zbedic or to create dictionaries, I will gladly forward donation money to him.

Rafal

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Software / Wikipedia projects

« on: September 17, 2006, 02:28:17 pm »

I would if i were able to program in any script language.  They only programming language i know is business basic, maybe it could be done with it, but would be not of much use.  What script language are you thinking about?

George
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Most of the scripts for converting Wikipedia are in Perl, which however, I consider a write-only scripting language (no way to understands somebody's else code). Some people write quite complex conversion scripts in Python or XSLT. For simple conversion tasks, I prefer awk. Certainly there are a lot of choices, especially if you work under Linux.

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Software / Wikipedia projects

« on: September 04, 2006, 09:31:16 pm »

iamasmith, this is an impressive description and a smart way of making wikipedia running as static web pages. But I still would regard browsing wikipedia in zbedic more convenient than installing apache, squashfs2 and running a web browser.

I wonder if anyone would like to invest time in wring a script that would convert wikipedia dumps to the zbedic format. zbedic offers only simplified HTML syntax, but consumes also less memory than a web browser. The script should:
* separate articles, extract a key-word for each article
* optionally truncate / remove large articles to reduce the total size
* change HTML links to zbedic links
* optionally simplify HTML (e.g. tables shown on the right which are usually too big and overlap text)

I can help with the zbedic syntax and generating the final dictionary, but I don't have time to help with the script.

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Software / Various Questions About Zbedic

« on: August 28, 2006, 02:54:49 pm »

Having this functionality (having images in the dictionaries themselves) would allow creation of encyclopedias for zbedic.  In addition, images could be used for inserting information in the form not supported by bedic format (tables, etc.).  The question is how hard is it to implement?  Is it worth the effort?
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Tables can be put in dictionaries using HTML syntax. I works fine unless the table is too large for the small screen.

zbedic can handle images starting from v1.1. Can be both .jpg and .png. To get better compression, one can experiment with reduction of bit-depth and scaling. Linux 'convert' command from ImageMagick can be useful for these operations.

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Software / Announce: Zbedic 1.1

« on: August 20, 2006, 04:48:41 pm »

(...)
When I first noticed that some entries where not displayed (just nothing, the word on the left shows but nothing in the right pane), I thought it was the dictionary's problem. 
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The problem is caused by the incompatibility between dictionaries generated with mkbedic/xeros prior to 1.0 and zbedic 1.0 and latter. I accidentally introduced this problem by fixing a bug in libbedic. Since it would be quite difficult to revert to the old code (and cause even more incompatibilities), I would suggest upgrading the dictionaries with mkbedic/xerox to 1.0 or later. I added a note to zbedic_format.txt and below that explains how to do it.

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Important note!

The side effect of some bug fixes is that some dictionaries generated
with xerox / mkbedic prior to version 1.0 can be incompatible with
zbedic 1.0 and later. If some dictionary entries are not displayed,
follow the steps below to upgrade the dictionary to be compatible with zbedic
1.0 and later:

1. Compile and install the latest (1.0 or later) mkbedic and xerox
   (you will need to install development files for sqlite3 library)
   
2. Uncompress the dictionary with 'dictunzip old_dic.dic.dz'

3. Reindex the dictionary by running 'xerox old_dic.dic new_dic.dic'

4. Compress the new dictionary 'dictzip new_dic.dic'

The problem happens if the dictionary was created with mkbedic or
xerox version prior to 1.0, the dictionary contains char-precedence
and not all characters are specified in char-precedence and
search-ignore-chars (both xerox and mkbedic reports warnings if this
happens).

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I will try to add handling of both >1.0 and <1.0 dictionaries in the next release, but currently upgrading dictionaries is the only solution.