Re: [dict-beta] two new features

[Aleksey C. <vl...@gm...>]

Helmut Wollmersdorfer <he...@wo...> writes:

>> You are right, the dictionary format
>> suggested by Josef Novak is really easy and there are no problem to
>> embed to dictfmt code and even maintain it,
>> but I don't see a reason for doing this.
>
> Ok, back to the roots.
> At the moment man dictfmt shows 7 file options. For historic reasons
> they were developed supporting special dictionary files.
> I agree with you, that code of dictfmt should be as simple and
> reliable as possible. Therefor some of the formats should not longer
> be supported.
> But which are needed?
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The only reason to support all these 7 formats is to keep
dictfmt backward compatible.
But I have no plan to add new ones.
Multiline formats are most generic and -c5 is currently preferred
one because dictunformat produces it.

>> If some (or even a lot of) translators want to convert their dictionaries
>> to DICT format and have no expirience in programming, they are welcome
>> to send their requests to this mailing list.
>
> I think, a collection of scripts and examples would be nice. Now doing
> most in perl, I hope to find my collection of useful text-formatting
> scripts.

I'm not sure that dict project is the best place for the sample scripts
teaching people to create program.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.