in_lab Posted April 25, 2005 at 07:18 AM Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 at 07:18 AM Has anyone used software to create dictionaries for Palm PDAs? I tried KDIC, which was ok. My complaints are that it takes too long to start the software in DA mode, and its window is too small, and the interface could be improved. I tried RoadLingua. It works great for English to English, but the dictionaries that I tried to create in Chinese were missing headwords. Big5 doesn't work well. The company seems to offer no support. Ideally, I will be able to create dictionaries in Plecodict. But who knows how long it will be until they actually implement that feature. Any other suggestions for creating dictionaries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted April 25, 2005 at 03:07 PM Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 at 03:07 PM The best place to ask this question would probably be at the Plecodict forums: http://www.plecoforums.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_lab Posted April 26, 2005 at 12:49 AM Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 at 12:49 AM That was my first thought, but then I thought that it might be disrespectful to ask about alternatives to Pleco software in the Pleco forum. But if I don't get any responses here, that's what I'll probably try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted April 26, 2005 at 01:40 AM Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 at 01:40 AM Do you have the latest version of Plecodict? I haven't actually used it, but the version I am on seems to allow you to add dictionary entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_lab Posted April 26, 2005 at 08:03 AM Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 at 08:03 AM I want to create dictionaries from text files, not just one entry at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beirne Posted April 26, 2005 at 11:32 AM Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 at 11:32 AM Pleco's old Oxford dictionary had a text conversion tool for the desktop. Are they planning on creating a new one for Pledodict? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted April 26, 2005 at 12:15 PM Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 at 12:15 PM What I noticed, looking at it today, is that some of the flashcard lists I imported to Plecodict had turned up as entries in the user-defined dictionary - so one way or another, I guess it's possible to import lists. I'd be very suprised indeed if Plecodict didn't have a feature the Oxford one did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted April 27, 2005 at 01:18 AM Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 at 01:18 AM No need to visit PlecoForums, I'll just post here It actually is possible to create a dictionary from a text file in the current version of PlecoDict, it's just kind of slow. If you create a text file in the same format that the older MakeDict used (tab-delimited, word/pinyin/definition) and run it through the flashcard importer, you'll end up with searchable dictionary entries for all of the words in the text file. (in addition to their associated flashcards) We're also working on a new MakeDict for PlecoDict; it should hopefully be available in some form with version 1.0, but it won't be very user-friendly, and it'll probably be Windows-only in its initial version. Eventually we'd like to add a proper GUI, formatting tags, etc, but that probably won't happen until version 1.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in_lab Posted April 27, 2005 at 03:45 AM Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 at 03:45 AM Thanks for the replies. I'm looking forward to trying it, one way or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konglong Posted May 5, 2005 at 01:33 AM Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 at 01:33 AM I have created dictionaries that can be used with Mdict. This is only found on PocketPC's though. Let me know if anyone is interested. I have a character dictionary that is very useful. Kong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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