README.adoc

@@ -50,20 +50,15 @@ automatically.
 
 Dictionaries
 ------------
-This application is intended for use with specific dictionaries: each line
+Unfortunately, this application only really works with specific dictionaries.
-should contain one short word definition.  Moreover, the only supported content
+Word definitions have to be in plain text, separated by newlines.
-types are plain text, Pango markup, and XDXF (the visual format works better).
 
-The `make dicts` command will build some examples from freely available sources:
+The `make dicts` command will build some examples from freely available sources.
 
- - GNU/FDL Czech-English dictionary
+You may use the included 'transform' tool to convert already existing
- - Czech foreign words
+dictionaries that are almost good as they are, e.g., after stripping XML tags.
- - Czech WordNet 1.9 PDT (synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms)
+You might want to fix up the `sametypesequence` of the resulting '.ifo' file
-
+afterwards, and run 'dictzip' on the resulting '.dict' file to make it compact.
-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.
 
 https://mega.co.nz/#!axtD0QRK!sbtBgizksyfkPqKvKEgr8GQ11rsWhtqyRgUUV0B7pwg[CZ <--> EN/DE/PL/RU dictionaries]
 
@@ -71,10 +66,12 @@ 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:
+Linux and/or BSD distributions.
 
- - The tab bar and the text input field don't handle overflows well.
+An approximate list of things that need to be resolved is as follows:
- - Lacking configuration, standard StarDict locations should be scanned.
+
+ - the tab bar and the text input field don't handle overflows well,
+ - figure out a way to become capable of displaying most StarDict dictionaries.
 
 Given the entangledness of this codebase, issues with the file format,
 and general undesirability of terminal UIs, it might be better to start anew.

src/sdtui.c

@@ -344,26 +344,6 @@ view_entry_split_add_pango (ViewEntry *ve, const gchar *markup)
 	g_free (text);
 }
 
-static void
-view_entry_split_add_xdxf (ViewEntry *ve, const gchar *xml)
-{
-	// Trivially filter out all tags we can't quite handle,
-	// then parse the reduced XML as Pango markup--this seems to work well.
-	// Given the nature of our display, also skip keyword elements.
-	GString *filtered = g_string_new ("");
-	while (*xml)
-	{
-		const gchar *p = NULL;
-		if (*xml != '<' || !*(p = xml + 1 + (xml[1] == '/'))
-		 || (strchr ("biu", *p) && p[1] == '>') || !(p = strchr (p, '>')))
-			g_string_append_c (filtered, *xml++);
-		else if (xml[1] != 'k' || xml[2] != '>' || !(xml = strstr (p, "</k>")))
-			xml = ++p;
-	}
-	view_entry_split_add_pango (ve, filtered->str);
-	g_string_free (filtered, TRUE);
-}
-
 /// Decomposes a dictionary entry into the format we want.
 static ViewEntry *
 view_entry_new (StardictIterator *iterator)
@@ -392,10 +372,6 @@ view_entry_new (StardictIterator *iterator)
 			view_entry_split_add_pango (ve, field->data);
 			found_anything_displayable = TRUE;
 			break;
-		case STARDICT_FIELD_XDXF:
-			view_entry_split_add_xdxf (ve, field->data);
-			found_anything_displayable = TRUE;
-			break;
 		case STARDICT_FIELD_PHONETIC:
 			g_string_append_printf (word, " /%s/", (const gchar *) field->data);
 			break;