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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
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kinds of dictionaries in your terminal, and is inspired by the dictionary
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component of PC Translator. I wasn't successful in finding any free software
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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"]
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Packages
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--------
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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
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-------------
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See the link:docs/sdtui.1.adoc[man page] for information about usage.
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The rest of this README will concern itself with externalities.
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Building and Running
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--------------------
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Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, asciidoctor +
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Runtime dependencies: ncursesw, zlib, ICU, termo (included), glib-2.0 >= 2.38,
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pango, xcb, xcb-xfixes (the latter two optional)
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$ git clone --recursive https://git.janouch.name/p/sdtui.git
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$ mkdir sdtui/build
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$ cd sdtui/build
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$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_X11=ON
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$ make
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To install the application, you can do either the usual:
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# make install
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Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is:
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$ cpack -G DEB
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# dpkg -i sdtui-*.deb
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Having the program installed, simply run it with a StarDict '.ifo' file as
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an argument. It is, however, preferable to
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link:docs/sdtui.1.adoc#_configuration[configure it] to load your dictionaries
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automatically.
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Dictionaries
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------------
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This application is intended for use with specific dictionaries: each line
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should contain one short word definition. Moreover, the only supported content
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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:
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- GNU/FDL Czech-English dictionary
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- Czech foreign words
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- Czech WordNet 1.9 PDT (synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms)
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You can use the included 'transform' tool to convert already existing StarDict
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dictionaries that are nearly good as they are. Remember that you can change
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the `sametypesequence` of the resulting '.ifo' file to another format, or run
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'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
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-------------------
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While I've been successfully using 'sdtui' for many years now, some work has to
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be done yet before the software can be considered fit for inclusion in regular
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Linux and/or BSD distributions:
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- The tab bar and the text input field don't handle overflows well.
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- Lacking configuration, standard StarDict locations should be scanned.
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Given the entangledness of this codebase, issues with the file format,
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and general undesirability of terminal UIs, it might be better to start anew.
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Graphical UI
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------------
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With GTK+ 3 development packages installed, an alternative frontend will be
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built and installed. It shares the default dictionary list with 'sdtui',
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but styling will follow your theme, and has to be customized from 'gtk.css'.
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Contributing and Support
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------------------------
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Use https://git.janouch.name/p/sdtui to report any bugs, request features,
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or submit pull requests. `git send-email` is tolerated. If you want to discuss
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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
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-------
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This software is released under the terms of the 0BSD license, the text of which
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is included within the package along with the list of authors.
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