JGlossator Release Notes
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What is JGlossator?
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You may use JGlossator to create a gloss for Japanese text complete with
de-inflected expressions, readings, audio pronunciation, example sentences,
pitch accent, word frequency, kanji information, and grammar analysis.
JGlossator will automatically gloss any Japanese text that you copy to the
clipboard. Setting aside more obvious usage, this makes it ideal for use with
Capture2Text when reading manga or with AGTH/ITH when either playing visual
novels or watching video with Japanese subtitles.
By right-clicking on a glossed entry you will be presented with a menu that
allows you to view alternate entries, save the current entry to file, or listen
to an audio pronunciation. You may hover over a Japanese word to see a
Rikaichan-style popup.
JGlossator is highly configurable and allows you to modify many of the default
behaviors and settings. For example, you can turn off the clipboard monitor,
change themes, specify a new save format, remove pitch accent, etc. Just press
the options button on the far right.
Type in an English word to search definitions instead. The resulting list will
be sorted based on frequency. To search whole words only, add "w/" in front
of the word. To use a regular expression, type "r/" followed by a regular
expression.
Kanji search is supported as well. Just use one of these formats:
Search Based On | Format
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Meanings | km/<comma-separated list of meanings> (Example: km/dragon)
Primitives | kp/<comma-separated list of primitives> (Example: kp/rain,eel)
Radical meanings | kr/<comma-separated list of radical meanings> (Example: kr/heart,moon,sword)
ON readings | ko/<comma-separated list of ON readings> (Exampe: ko/ねん)
KUN readings | kk/<comma-separated list of KUN readings> (Exampe: kk/こころ)
You can also perform a gloss using your favorite EPWING dictionaries. Just add
them to the Dictionary Setup tab of the Options dialog.
Know basic HTML/CSS? Want to change a font, color, or maybe even the format of
the kanji gloss? No problem, just create a new theme in the themes directory or
modify an existing one.
Some useful shortcut keys:
ESC Place cursor in the input box
Up (when the input box has focus) Clear text in the input box
Backspace (when the input box doesn't have focus) Go back through the history
Ctrl-Up Go back through the history
Ctrl-Down Go forward through the history
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 JGlossator.
3) In the unzipped directory, simply double-click JGlossator.exe to launch JGlossator.
Note: Make sure that there are no non-ASCII (ex. Japanese) characters in the
JGlossator path. Also don't place JGlossator in Program Files due to
write permission issues.
Offical Project Home:
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/jglossator/
Feedback Thread:
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http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=194432#p194432
Contact:
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Christopher Brochtrup
cb4960@gmail.com
Acknowledgments:
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EB Library
ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/misc/eb/
Library for EPWING dictionary lookups.
Mecab (by Taku Kudo and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
http://code.google.com/p/mecab/
Morphological Analyzer for Japanese Text.
CaboCha (by Taku Kudo)
http://code.google.com/p/cabocha/
Japanese Dependency Structure Analyzer.
jCorrect (by Hiroyuki Ohsaki)
http://www.ispl.jp/~oosaki/research/tips-jcorrect/
Used to generated grammar tips for technical writing.
Obi-2 (by Satoshi Sato)
http://kotoba.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/sc/obi2/obi_e.html
Readability Analyzer of Japanese Texts.
EDICT (by Jim Breen)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html
Free Japanese-English dictionary.
ENAMDICT (by Jim Breen)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/enamdict_doc.html
Free Japanese names dictionary.
KANJIDIC
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic.html
Free kanji dictionary.
Tatoeba
http://tatoeba.org/eng/home
Free example sentence corpus.
System.Data.SQLite
http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
ADO.NET adapter for SQLite.
Rikaichan (by Jonathan Zarate)
http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
Code to get the deinflection rules.
Nini (by Brent R. Matzelle)
http://nini.sourceforge.net/index.php
.Net configuration library.
Json.Net (by James Newton-King)
http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx
JSON framework for .NET.
BASS Audio Library (by un4seen developments)
http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html
Audio library.
Kanji Stroke Order Font (Ulrich Apel, the AAAA project and the Wadoku project)
http://www.nihilist.org.uk/
Iconic (by P.J. Onori)
http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/
Font-based icon set.
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Version History:
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[Version 5.0 (06-December-2015)]
- Added Rikaichan-style popup (only EDICT lookup for now).
[Version 4.9 (7-September-2015)]
- Added better support for Windows DPI settings.
- Config context menu dropdown now opens left instead of right.
- Kanji dialog is now positioned at the same location is was closed at.
[Version 4.8 (31-May-2015)]
- Fixed bug where incorrect window position was being saved (again).
[Version 4.7 (24-May-2015)]
- Fixed bug where incorrect window position was being saved.
[Version 4.6 (13-May-2015)]
- Updated edict.sqlite, freq.sqlite, enamdict.sqlite, pitch_accents.sqlite, eplkup.exe, and
the Mecab user dictionary.
[Version 4.5 (1-June-2014)]
- Updated edict.sqlite, freq.sqlite, enamdict.sqlite, pitch_accents.sqlite, tatoeba.sqlite and
the Mecab user dictionary.
- Tweaked the glosser so that look-aheads don't occur following certain particles.
[Version 4.4 (20-May-2014)]
- Added the "Maximum number of kanji to show in the Kanji Pane" option.
- Fixed the right-click context menu out-of-order bug when using the blacklist feature.
[Version 4.3 (11-May-2014)]
- Added option to re-arrange and enable/disable the panes.
- Added the "Maximum length of search text" option.
[Version 4.2 (27-October-2013)]
- Updated edict.sqlite, freq.sqlite, enamdict.sqlite, pitch_accents.sqlite, tatoeba.sqlite and
the Mecab user dictionary.
[Version 4.1 (10-July-2013)]
- Fixed region issue with floating point value in themes.ini.
[Version 4.0 (21-June-2013)]
- Added EDICT definition search.
- Added kanji search (km/, kp/, kr/, ko/, kk/).
- Added Frequency save token.
- Added "Play Audio" and "Show Examples" checkbox to Options context menu.
- Updated frequency database to include words not in EDICT.
- Fixed bug that prevents frequency lookup of katakana words.
- If frequency was found based on reading add "_r" to the frequency.
- Use "*r" if word is found in Anki deck based on reading.
- ASCII numbers in expressions are now converted to Japanese numbers to facilitate
pitch/audio/freq lookups.
- Modified some of the frequency colors to match Rikaisama.
[Version 3.0 (7-May-2013)]
- Added word frequency.
- Added option to indicate if a word is present in an Anki vocabulary deck.
- Updated EDICT (default J-E dictionary).
- Updated Names database.
- Updated Pitch Accent database.
- Updated Tatoeba (sentences database).
- Updated Mecab from v.994 to v.996.
- Updated Mecab user dictionary.
[Version 2.0 (2-March-2013)]
- Added grammar pane which includes CaboCha dependency tree, jCorrect tips,
and Obi-2 grade level.
- Added the Kanji Info dialog.
- Updated the Pitch Accent database.
[Version 1.0 (13-January-2013)]
- Initial version
