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StarDict Terminal UI
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'sdtui' aims to provide an easy way of viewing translation as well as other
kinds of dictionaries in your terminal, and is inspired by the dictionary
component of PC Translator. I wasn't successful in finding any free software
of this kind, GUI or not, and thus decided to write my own.
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The project is covered by a permissive license, unlike vast majority of other
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similar projects, and can serve as a base for implementing other dictionary
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software.
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image::sdtui.png[align="center"]
With GTK+ 3 development packages installed, an alternative frontend will also be
built and installed. It shares the default dictionary list with 'sdtui',
but styling will follow your theme, and has to be customized from 'gtk.css'.
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Packages
--------
Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get
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a package with the latest development version from Archlinux's AUR.
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Documentation
-------------
See the link:docs/sdtui.1.adoc[man page] for information about usage.
The rest of this README will concern itself with externalities.
Building and Running
--------------------
Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, asciidoctor +
Runtime dependencies: ncursesw, zlib, ICU, termo (included), glib-2.0 >= 2.38,
pango, xcb, xcb-xfixes (the latter two optional for the TUI),
gtk+-3.0 (for the alternative graphical UI)
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$ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/sdtui.git
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$ mkdir sdtui/build
$ cd sdtui/build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_X11=ON
$ make
To install the application, you can do either the usual:
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# make install
Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is:
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$ cpack -G DEB
# dpkg -i sdtui-*.deb
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Having the program installed, simply run it with a StarDict '.ifo' file as
an argument. It is, however, preferable to
link:docs/sdtui.1.adoc#_configuration[configure it] to load your dictionaries
automatically.
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Dictionaries
------------
This application is intended for use with specific dictionaries: each line
should contain one short word definition. Moreover, the only supported content
types are plain text, Pango markup, and XDXF (the visual format works better).
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The `make dicts` command will build some examples from freely available sources:
- GNU/FDL Czech-English dictionary
- Czech foreign words
- Czech WordNet 1.9 PDT (synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms)
You can use the included 'transform' tool to convert already existing StarDict
dictionaries that are nearly good as they are. Remember that you can change
the `sametypesequence` of the resulting '.ifo' file to another format, or run
'dictzip' on '.dict' files to make them compact.
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https://mega.co.nz/#!axtD0QRK!sbtBgizksyfkPqKvKEgr8GQ11rsWhtqyRgUUV0B7pwg[CZ <--> EN/DE/PL/RU dictionaries]
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Further Development
-------------------
While I've been successfully using 'sdtui' for many years now, some work has to
be done yet before the software can be considered fit for inclusion in regular
Linux and/or BSD distributions:
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- The tab bar and the text input field don't handle overflows well in the TUI.
- Lacking configuration, standard StarDict locations should be scanned.
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Given all issues with the file format, it might be better to start anew.
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Contributing and Support
------------------------
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Use https://git.janouch.name/p/sdtui to report any bugs, request features,
or submit pull requests. `git send-email` is tolerated. If you want to discuss
the project, feel free to join me at ircs://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.
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Bitcoin donations are accepted at: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9
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License
-------
This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which
is included within the package along with the list of authors.