[lojban-beginners] Re: New jbovlaste-based dictionary

["John Osborne" <osborne6@gmail.com>]

I'd be all over the ODT file version of this.  Plus the process you
used to convert the XML dump into the ODT file.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I can do that, and post a text file in addition to the PDF.  Maybe
> also the ODT file.
> Of course with a text file, I can't have hidden text, so you either have a
> visible $xag$, which is ugly, or else omit that part, which omits the easy
> searchability.  What's wrong with PDF?
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be more useful for me if it were in a flat text file instead of a
>> pdf.  If something like that were possible that would be great.  Also, about
>> how large is this distribution list?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I guess, not much interest...
>>> Oh well, it's a fun project.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> coi rodo
>>>> For a while now, I've had some problems trying to get an English-lojban
>>>> dictionary from jbovlaste. Even when I managed to get one, I found searching
>>>> it to be a pain.
>>>> So I downloaded the XML file, and re-formatted it to the format expected
>>>> by OpenOffice. I then opened the file in OO, and exported it to a PDF. My
>>>> version has a few advantages over the "official" jbovlaste-exported PDF:
>>>>
>>>> It's available online, so it can be just downloaded. It does not need to
>>>> be "generated"
>>>> It has both a Lojban to English section, and an English to Lojban
>>>> section.
>>>> Easy searching. At the first line of every definition there is a list of
>>>> the word itself, and each of its rafsi, surrounded by dollar signs. For
>>>> example, on the first line of xamgu, there's $xamgu$ $xag$ $xau$. But these
>>>> items are in tiny white letters, so you can't see them. Your PDF reader
>>>> (tried with Acrobat and Preview) can, so if you see a rafsi in use "ba'u"
>>>> and want to know what it is, you search for $ba'u$ and learn that it's a
>>>> rafsi of bacru, and also get the definition of bacru
>>>>
>>>> Please download this from the link below, and let me know if you feel
>>>> this is useful. If so, I can make a new "edition" every month or every other
>>>> month.
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/5c3vus
>>>>
>>>> mu'o mi'e ioav
>>>
>>
>
>



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