[lojban] Dictionary for Mac OS X 10.5

[Dan Brown <dan@burntout.net>]

.ui coi rodo
mi'e dan.

I should probably introduce myself properly at some point, but quick  
version: I've been learning Lojban for the past few months, lurking on  
the lists and such. I don't know how many of you have a Mac, or indeed  
Leopard, but there's a dictionary application which provides system- 
wide dictionary services (you can hover over a word, press a key combo  
and get a pop-up definition – pretty cool). I thought it would be mega- 
handy if I had a Lojban dictionary for this service so I made one :)  
It's generated from the English jbovlaste XML export (though I'm sure  
I could run to other languages if needed) so any issues about content  
should be directed there.

If you have a Mac and Leopard, give it a go and let me know what you  
think. I've put it up on my very bare-bones website here: http://stuff.burntout.net/lojbanosxdictionary/ 
  I haven't tested it on 10.4 as I don't have a 10.4 installation  
lying around but if you do give it a go and report back! 10.4 had the  
dictionary thing too but I don't know if they changed the format or  
not with 10.5. Apple certainly only just provided the tool to build  
dictionaries with 10.5.

The generator is included, with a Readme, but feel free to contact me  
either directly or through this thread about that too. It's all  
automated apart from one dependency. Patches are welcome :)

Also, Powers That Be, feel free to link/rehost/whatever it on wherever  
(it may help with the recently-discussed LRWTF as it's a pretty  
friendly gateway to Lojban words – well, for Mac users anyway ;) ),  
just please credit me and add your name to the Readme if you change  
the distribution.

Hope this is of use to someone else too...

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