Epwing2Anki Files

Epwing2Anki Release Notes
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What is Epwing2Anki?
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Epwing2Anki may be used to automatically or semi-automatically create Japanese
Anki vocabulary cards based on a provided list of words and one or more of your
favorite EPWING dictionaries and/or the included EDICT J-E dictionary and Tatoeba
example sentence corpus.


How to Install and Launch:
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1) Make sure that you have .Net Framework Version 3.5 installed (you probably
   already do). If not, you can get it through Windows update or via the following
   link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21

2) Unzip Epwing2Anki.

3) In the unzipped directory, simply double-click Epwing2Anki.exe to launch Epwing2Anki.

   Note: Make sure that there are no non-ASCII (ex. Japanese) characters in the
         Epwing2Anki path. Also don't place Epwing2Anki in Program Files due to
         write permission issues.

Offical Project Home:
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/epwing2anki/


Contact:
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Christopher Brochtrup
cb4960@gmail.com


Feedback Thread:
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http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=181474#p181474


Acknowledgments:
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EB Library 4.2.2 - Used to look up words in EPWING dictionaries.
EDICT            - Free Japanese-English dictionary.
Tatoeba          - Free example sentence database.
Mecab            - Morphological analyzer.

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Version History:
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[Version 1.6.2 (27-October-2013)]
- Updated EDICT, Tatoeba, and Mecab user dictionary.

[Version 1.6.1 (18-August-2012)]
- Fixed crash bug in parser for 『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』.
- Fixed crash bug when generating ruby for example sentences.
- Added more information to the log file.

[Version 1.6 (17-August-2012)]
- Added "< Back" button to both the Disambiguate Entries page and the Choose Examples page.
- Added the "Add Anki-style ruby/furigana to example sentences" option to the Fine-Tune dialog.
- Added the "Fill in example sentence blanks with expression" option to the Fine-Tune dialog.
- Fixed cases where the statistics in the Results dialog were wrong.
- Position of window no longer jumps when transitioning between the setup dialog, 
  the generation dialog and the results dialog.

[Version 1.5 (04-August-2012)]
- 『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』: If an example sentence is in "kana[で|する|と|な|に|の]"
  format then consider it a definition. (kanji[で|する|と|な|に|の] is already supported).
- 『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』: When separating the Japanese from the English in the
  example sentences, don't look at Japanese in parenthesis.
- 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』: Replace ugly tilde with nicer tilde (〜 --> ～) even
  when the tilde is not the first character in the line.
- When the "Add placeholders in import file for words that were not found" is checked  
  and "Append short name of source dictionary to examples" is set to Yes, do not
  append the source dictionary if the the word has no examples.
- When definition for highest priority dictionary is not found, use the definition
  in the next highest priority dictionary and so on.
- Renamed "Remove entries with definitions that don't contain alpha characters (a-z or A-Z)"
  to "De-prioritize definitions that don'tcontain alpha characters (a-z or A-Z)"
- When "De-prioritize definitions that don't contain alpha characters (a-z or A-Z)"
  is checked, allow removed entries to be used for example sentences. And if no other
  definitions are found, use the non-alpha definition.
  
[Version 1.4 (29-July-2012)]
- In manual disambiguation mode, automatically choose an entry in current dictionary
  based on the reading and expression of the previous manual disambiguation for the
  same word in a previous dictionary. This automatic selection will only take place
  if a single entry matches the reading and expression.
- For dictionaries that are only being searched for their example sentences (meaning
  that they are disabled in the Setup Dictionaries page but enabled in the Setup
  Examples page), automatically remove entries that do not have example sentences.
  This prevents the case were the user is pointlessly asked to manually choose
  between entries that have no examples.

[Version 1.3 (28-July-2012)]
- Added support for the 『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』 EPWING dictionary
- Added the "Add placeholders in import file for words that were not found" option
  to the Fine-Tune Options dialog.
- Added the "Prepend short name of source dictionary to definition" option to the 
  Fine-Tune Options dialog.
- Added the "Append short name of source dictionary to examples" option to the 
  Fine-Tune Options dialog.
- In the Fine-Tune Options dialog "Specific to 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』" was 
  renamed to "Specific to J-E Dictionaries"
- Upgraded to eplkup 1.3 which has ability to follow links (needed for
  『研究社　新英和・和英中辞典』 example sentence support).
- Added punctuation to examples in the Choose Examples dialog.
- Added a few things to the log.
- If the settting.e2a file is from a previous version of Epwing2Anki, ignore it 
  and use the default settings for the current version instead. (This can happen 
  if the user installed Epwing2Anki over a previous install).
- Show error message when non-ASCII characters are found in the path of an
  EPWING dictionary.
- Fixed case that allowed blank cards to be generated when a word was not found
  in the main dictionary list but was found in example dictionary list.

[Version 1.2 (22-July-2012)]
- Added fine-tune options:
    * Compact definitions (place the entire definition on a single line)
    * Append short name of source dictionary to example sentences
    * Text to place in front of examples
    * Remove word type indicators [example: (v1,n)]
    * Remove "popular" indicator [example: (P)]
    * Remove entries with definitions that don't contain alpha characters (a-z or A-Z)
    * Keep examples in the definition
    * Remove the '‐' and '･' characters from readings
- Fixed case that allowed blank cards to be generated.
- 研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版: Remove '◧' and '◨' from expression.

[Version 1.1 (21-July-2012)]
- Added support for the 『大辞泉』 EPWING dictionary.
- Added support for the 『明鏡国語辞典』 EPWING dictionary.
- Added option to append lines from word list to end of import file lines.
- Added option to create a separate card for each example sentence.
- Added "Example Sentences (translation only)" field.
- Fixed bug that prevented examples from being auto-chosen in priority order.
- Upgraded to eplkup 1.2.1 which has better gaiji support - especially for
  『大辞泉』and 『明鏡国語辞典』.
- Tatoeba searches are now much faster.
- User can now press the 1-9 keys on the Disambiguate Entries dialog to select the
  corresponding entry.
- Punctuation (full stops, capitalization, periods) is now added to example 
  sentences that needed it.
- Fixed bug where link tag was not removed in EPWING parsers.
- 広辞苑第六版: Remove the source text from example sentences.
- 広辞苑第六版: Fixed case where EB Library returns unrelated entries when
  the looked up entry contains an initial '○' character.
- 広辞苑第六版: Extract example sentences in case where they are followed 
  with '↔' or '→'.
- Fixed potential crash bug in EPWING parsers.
- Other minor parser tweaks.
- Title of progress/disambiguate/example chooser dialog is now read-only.

[Version 1.0.1 (17-July-2012)]
- Added msvcr71.dll (Microsoft Visual C runtime library) to the distribution.
- Made a more informative error message for when eplkup fails to get the title of
  an EPWING dictionary.

[Version 1.0 (16-July-2012)]
- Initial version