Re: [Palireader-devel] PaliTextReader for PPC - source code

[Lennart L. <nov...@gm...>]

On 8/18/06, Lopin, Lennart <ll...@no...> wrote:
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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Pavel Bure [mailto:pav...@to...]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 18. August 2006 11:29
> An: Lopin, Lennart
> Betreff: Re[2]: PaliTextReader for PPC - source code
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> Hello Lennart,
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> Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 11:15:44 PM, you wrote:
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> LL> I tried your PaliTextReader version for PPC. It works! :-) I opened
> LL> the Nidanakatha (visuddhimagga) and had no problems reading the
> LL> text. Your installation instructions were straightforward. However,
> LL> when i tried to translate a term i got an assertion error:
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> LL> PaliTextReader: File afx.inl,
> LL> Line 179
> LL> To ignore press 'X'
> This may happen when you didn't select a word and pop up the context menu=
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> Tried this... Yes, this is a bug I fixed quickly. Sending you the updated
> version.


okay...

To translate a word you need to select it first with stylus. This is
> important since for most of the time you will need to select only the roo=
t
> of the word to find it in the dictionary. This is important for
> translating
> word compounds as well.


...thats why i tried to make my dictionary look up recursively from the end
of any given word until it finds a match in the dictionary, in case, someon=
e
looks for a compound or word with irregular suffix. However, sometimes, whe=
n
the algorithm can't find anything proper, it will match with syllables like
"na-" or "an-" and so it returns a wrong answer. Thats crying for a smarter
algorithm, maybe one, that knows Pali morphology (like Snowball for German,
English), kind of a stemmer... Also for automatically analysing compounds,
which, if working one day, will be a nice feature, this kind of
morphological engine needs to be implemented...


LL> Some ideas:
> LL> .)For a first release, an installer would still be nice.
> Yes, I know this. This is the reason I don't want to publish it all at
> once.
> It will take some time to find out how an installer for the PocketPC can
> be
> created. It should install the application and the font in the main
> memory,
> but the library should be better installed to the storage card.
>
> LL> .)Did you already map all books?
> Yes. If you want, I can send you other books (24 megabytes total).


Did you try  an upload to the sourceforge project space? i dont know how
much websspace we got there, but that would be an option. Else, you could
use the "File release" option on sourceforge and could upload it as a
"complementary" library file ... i guess nobody will be able to make use of
it (except me :-) before you release the software itself. However, that way=
,
i could access the files easily. Lets see.

LL> .)horizontal scrollbar though text is in a narrow column (text
> LL> wrapping?)
> The horizontal scrolbar shows when the text cannot fit in a window. Text
> normally wraps line by line, but sometimes it cannot be wrapped like in
> case
> of a very long word (I like them :-). Just scroll down to find this nice
> word.


I love them too :-) I didn't think of a compound messing with the display,
but sure, that makes sense. Are compounds possible in Russian? German got
lots of monster-words like that too - or at least, you could translate them
into one German compound if you'd like to :-)

regards,

Lennart