Re: replace corrupted emacs aspell dictionary

2022-08-13 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Thomas, Russel, * [2022-08-13; 06:37]: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 07:38:31PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I managed to approve incorrect spellings for several words in the >> Emacs aspell dictionary. >> >> How can I replace the corrupted dictionary with a prist

Re: replace corrupted emacs aspell dictionary

2022-08-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 07:38:31PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I managed to approve incorrect spellings for several words in the > Emacs aspell dictionary. > > How can I replace the corrupted dictionary with a pristine copy? Caveat: not a regular user of aspell here: all what

replace corrupted emacs aspell dictionary

2022-08-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
I managed to approve incorrect spellings for several words in the Emacs aspell dictionary. How can I replace the corrupted dictionary with a pristine copy? -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 01:31:36 (-0500), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2022-01-30 20:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:52:36AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:2

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
t sure what it is that will need >> to be changed here. > > The source package description [1] says: > > Build-Depends-Indep: python (>= 2.4.3), python-dictdlib (>= 2.0.4), > > so it looks like it uses Python to make the binary package. > > The description in

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread Tixy
gt;= 2.4.3), python-dictdlib (>= 2.0.4),  so it looks like it uses Python to make the binary package. The description includes... "This is formatted for use by the dictionary server in the dictd package" So I'd guess that if you had dict/disctd installed you could use just intsal

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-30 at 23:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. > > But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the > moby-thesaurus file. If you still have acce

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:36:35PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > I think this lappy has only had Bullseye in testing and then stable on > it Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) > > i dict-moby-thesaurus > > Maybe just not in synaptic. I use apt-get and apt to put the packages > on this one? No, you're de

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-30 23:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. > > But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the > moby-thesaurus file. > > RLH > Download the

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
;>>> find "moby thesaurus". >>>>> >>>>> Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here >>>> >>>> My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2. >>> >>> What is "gazeteer"? Is that an Ubuntu

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:49:09 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. > > But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the > moby-thesaurus file. > > RLH

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 02:07:05 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > shows the dates > >it was removed from unstable and from testing. I think this lappy has only had Bullseye in testing and then stable on it Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) i di

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the moby-thesaurus file. RLH

converting Python2 to Python3 (was: sparse dictionary)

2022-01-30 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > In my case, I started with the last Debian package version before the > removal, imported the source package into git, dropped the debian/ > directory because that doesn't belong in the upstream codebase, ran the > '2to3' tool (from the package of the same name) against the c

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
years); python2-only; no extrenal deps; >> extremely low popcon > > Thanks for taking the time to trace out the cause. It truly is a > sad loss. > > I wish I knew enough about Python to know how much work it would > take to make the data base compatible with Python 3

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Thanks for taking the time to trace out the cause. It truly is a sad loss. I wish I knew enough about Python to know how much work it would take to make the data base compatible with Python 3 (or whatever dictionary currently is running on). Meanwhile, it is back to Roget. RLH

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
aptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not > > find "moby thesaurus". > > Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2. What is "gazeteer"? Is that an Ubuntu thing? (This is not an Ubu

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
> > > > > > > Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here > > > > > > My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2. > > > > What is "gazeteer"? Is that an Ubuntu thing? (This is not an Ubuntu > > mailing list.) > > gazetter - A

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:26PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 + > > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > > > Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not > > > find "moby thes

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not find "moby thesaurus". Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it.

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not > find "moby thesaurus". Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *

sparse dictionary

2022-01-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
With respect to the dictionary and thesaurus, something has changed between Debian releases 9 and 11; it seems that a great many words are missing. The problem is not spelling; the spelling checker reports "correctly spelled". Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer&quo

Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

2021-06-26 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/23/21 12:16 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Try asking on debian-i18n. Thanks for your suggestion, I will ask on debian i18n -- Robbi Nespu D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA https://robbinespu.gitlab.io | https://mstdn.social/@robbinespu

Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 11:53:47, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hello Debian! > > TLDR; How I can generate my own dictionary and spell checker file? Try asking on debian-i18n. > I from Malaysia, we use Malay (Bahasa Melayu) as our primary language but we > don't mind using English f

How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

2021-06-22 Thread Robbi Nespu
Hello Debian! TLDR; How I can generate my own dictionary and spell checker file? I from Malaysia, we use Malay (Bahasa Melayu) as our primary language but we don't mind using English for user-interface of software and communication. I think most of us are comfortable with English be

Re: Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 05:05:27PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic > dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? > Can maintainers delete one ? In a word, choice. Debian is not here to dictate to users "you

Re: Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/04/2015 11:05, mudongliang a écrit : > Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic > dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? > Can maintainers delete one ? > mudongliang > > Why should they ? gnome dictionary is a gnome app, and goldendi

Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread mudongliang
Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? Can maintainers delete one ? mudongliang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-03 Thread Amodelo
Am 02.07.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Steve Litt : > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 > B wrote: > >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do >>> this, I'll just put together a substitution table, >>> convert

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Read
On 02/07/14 18:25, Steve Litt wrote: So then, the question becomes, where does there exist a list of common letters that are, for want of a better word, "ornamented ascii"? Umlauts, Carats, Circles, Grave accents, etc. Are the charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ what you're looking for, o

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:18 +0200 B wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > If worst comes to worst and I can't find a way to get grep to do > > this, I'll just put together a substitution table, > > convert /usr/share/dict/words to words.ascii, line for line, sea

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as > installed, the following symlink: > > /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words > > doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon > installation

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 12:22:02 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Another thing to remember is that the wordlist is no longer ASCII, Excellent thing at the age of UTF-N. > cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -i "$1" Simplify it: grep -i "$1" /usr/share/dict/words > If you look up ^smor.*rd$, you get nothing

Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a known problem, but just in case anyone doesn't remember, as installed, the following symlink: /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't work, because /etc/dictionaries-common/words doesn't exist upon installation. The following command (run as root) fixes

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:21:56 +0800 lina wrote: > On Sunday 16,June,2013 03:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 16 iun 13, 13:32:35, lina wrote: > >> > >> So wish to have a dict to "record" the words I looked up and then I > >> would be easily to review. > > > > You could use a small wrapper

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:14:08 +0800 lina wrote: > Wow. so simple, why the dict --help so verbose. > > Haha ... thanks for your help. You are most welcome, gracious lady. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-16 Thread lina
On Sunday 16,June,2013 03:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 16 iun 13, 13:32:35, lina wrote: >> >> So wish to have a dict to "record" the words I looked up and then I >> would be easily to review. > > You could use a small wrapper script $HOME/bin/dict > > , > | #!/bin/sh > | > | echo "$@

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-16 Thread lina
On Sunday 16,June,2013 01:53 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:32:35 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> So wish to have a dict to "record" the words I looked up and then I >> would be easily to review. > > Maybe the bash history would be enough for you. >> >> Do you have some manuals/tuto

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 iun 13, 13:32:35, lina wrote: > > So wish to have a dict to "record" the words I looked up and then I > would be easily to review. You could use a small wrapper script $HOME/bin/dict , | #!/bin/sh | | echo "$@" >> $HOME/.dict_history | dict "$@" ` Expand as needed. Kind regar

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:32:35 +0800 "lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com" sent this: >Do you have some manuals/tutorials for the dict, I have not found a way >out from dict --help and man dict dict | less There are a whole lot of additions [packages] to dict, I use most of them and

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:32:35 +0800 lina wrote: > So wish to have a dict to "record" the words I looked up and then I > would be easily to review. Maybe the bash history would be enough for you. > > Do you have some manuals/tutorials for the dict, I have not found a > way out from dict --help an

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread lina
On Saturday 15,June,2013 11:50 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:21:04 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, >> which, I wish, can save the history of the words I looked up befor

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread lina
On Saturday 15,June,2013 03:01 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0800, lina wrote: >> On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I >>&

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread green
Chris Bannister wrote at 2013-06-15 02:01 -0500: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0800, lina wrote: > > On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I > > &

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:21:04 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, > which, I wish, can save the history of the words I looked up before. > > Thanks with best regards, > My personal favorite, used many times daily, is

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:31:12PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I > > wish, can save the history of the words I looked up before. > > >

Re: dictionary package

2013-06-14 Thread lina
On Friday 14,June,2013 11:21 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I > wish, can save the history of the words I looked up before. > > Thanks with best regards, I installed the Artha already. Thanks again, -- To

dictionary package

2013-06-14 Thread lina
Hi, Which is the best, in your opinion, English dictionary package, which, I wish, can save the history of the words I looked up before. Thanks with best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:38:15 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: Hello Sthu, >Oh! I would long time look for the reason! - Restart really made the >trick! Thanks again! NP. Glad it proved easy to resolve. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immedi

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Claudius. Thank you, for your time and answer. On Wed, 29 May 2013 18:44:56 +0100 you wrote: > $ dpkg-query -W -f '${Recommends}\n' claws-mail | grep -o > '[a-z-]*spell[a-z-]*' aspell-en > aspell-dictionary WOW! You are a great Debian user!

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Brad. Thank you, for your time and answer. On Wed, 29 May 2013 18:53:01 +0100 you wrote: > >Spell checker could not be started. > >Couldn't initialize cs dictionary: (null) > >Couldn't initialize cs speller. > > I got the same error ea

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:40:01 +0200 Sthu Deus wrote: > Spell checker could not be started. There is this lively list for CM users, you might find it helpful: http://lists.claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Sthu, Sthu Deus wrote: > I miss some package that i can not identify, please help me. > When i start to write a letter in claws-mail, it says: > > What's the package that contains the dictionary that claws-mail uses? $ dpkg-query -W -f '${Recommends}\n' claws-mai

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Joe
On Thu, 30 May 2013 00:37:49 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > I miss some package that i can not identify, please help me. > When i start to write a letter in claws-mail, it says: > > Spell checker could not be started. > Couldn't in

Re: speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 30 May 2013 00:37:49 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: Hello Sthu, >Spell checker could not be started. >Couldn't initialize cs dictionary: (null) >Couldn't initialize cs speller. I got the same error earlier today, too. A restart of CM solved the problem. I suspect is was s

speller dictionary for claws-mail.

2013-05-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I miss some package that i can not identify, please help me. When i start to write a letter in claws-mail, it says: Spell checker could not be started. Couldn't initialize cs dictionary: (null) Couldn't initialize cs speller. What's the package th

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect this group is basically just to young to > appreciate 'ye good ole daze' ;) I'm born in November 1966, but on Linux Audio Users/Developers Mailing List there are much older audio, video engineers, who are computer dinos too, aro

OT: vacuum tubes nowadays - Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:58 -0500, Wally Lepore wrote: > Source: RCA Receiving Tube Manual RC-30 Winfried Knobloch "Röhrentechnik ganz modern" among others used by the holder of a famous German company for some kind of audio tube equipment, that is used by all famous recording studios, all over th

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Wally Lepore wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? Hi Richard, You may have already found your answer but here are a few links I discovered that may provide additional support. I got the answer to the question

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-28 Thread Wally Lepore
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? > Hi Richard, You may have already found your answer but here are a few links I discovered that may provide additional support. In regards to udeb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-d

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been using computers since before Linus was born. I'm making the switch from a certain OS ;\ I'm also one of those strange people who actually reads docs. What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? A

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've been using computers since before Linus was born. > I'm making the switch from a certain OS ;\ > > I'm also one of those strange people who actually reads docs. > > What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? > > And before I

Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-01 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been using computers since before Linus was born. I'm making the switch from a certain OS ;\ I'm also one of those strange people who actually reads docs. What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? And before I get too much grief from youngsters - From personal experience do

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Sthu Deus writes: > Can't it be moved to non-free repo then? If distributing it would infringe a copyright it Debian cannot and will not distribute it. Non-free is for packages that can legally be distributed but that do not comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, such as ones containing

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
it becomes necessary to update those, manually - it becomes a hard task. Even whole the OS packages - to update manually - would almost impossible - so, we have to glory the people who have invented the APT and etc. > I have never thought of keeping a dictionary word list so assiduously > up t

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, T: > I had discussed the very same question with the stardict author > before. The reason for above is, none of the existing dictionaries, > including all that from dict, can be claimed to be copyright free. We > had a list of over 10+ dictionaries, and in the e

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dictconv > > (again, not tested) :-) > > > Do You have any better idea? > > Use the dictionaries provided by Stardict in their web page. Well. It is not as good as the auto conversion at update moment - to me

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
ou might try that script Camaleon refers to. The benefit of the site is that there are more dictionaries available than in the repos. Or you might email Hu Zheng, of that site, for info. Maybe start uploading dictionaries and updates to the site. I have never thought of keeping a dictionary word l

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:11:13AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > Let's see what the stardict doc says... ah, okay, it points to this > address to download some dictionaries: > > http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php > > As per the "readme.debian" file it seems those files cannot be pack

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:49:54 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> Ah, now I get it. Freedict files (like the one you downloaded) need to >> be converted to Stardict format before using. > > So, in order to automate the dictionaries updates for qstardict, I

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Ah, now I get it. Freedict files (like the one you downloaded) need > to be converted to Stardict format before using. So, in order to automate the dictionaries updates for qstardict, I have to write a script that would make such a conversion. Do Y

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > When I opened stardict, it returned an error that no dictionaries > were found and it gave the url I mentioned. > > I downloaded the compressed dictionaries from the dictd collection > there and, as root, extracted them to the directory described, >

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Camaleón
ot; file it seems those files cannot be packaged due to licensing issues :-? (side note: the "forum" page from where to download dictionaries seems not operative at this momment... I only found this link) http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_dictd-www.freedict.de.php I would

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:14:48PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > > > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of > > the same dictionaries from yeelou.com do. I kind of like stardict. > > Once it is running, it is as fast as dictd a

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Freeman: > The dictd dictionaries on my system don't work but the tarballs of > the same dictionaries from yeelou.com do. I kind of like stardict. > Once it is running, it is as fast as dictd at the command line. Am I correct to suppose that in order to use qst

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > > Good day. > > It's late afternoon here :-P Point taken. Now I'll be greeting w/ "Good time of the day." :) > Aren't "dict-freedict-*-*" packages working with Stardict? (just > asking because I have not tested) :-? I have installed one - dict-fr

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:15:11PM -0800, evenso wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:52:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > > > Good day. > > > > It's late afternoon here :-P > > > > > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:52:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > Good day. > > It's late afternoon here :-P > > > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable to work w/ > > stardict? > > > > I see plenty of dictionaries for dict

Re: stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:50:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. It's late afternoon here :-P > Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable to work w/ > stardict? > > I see plenty of dictionaries for dict use, for example, but not for > stardict. Or it is almost unusable program in

stardict dictionary packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Are in Debian the packages holding dictionaries capable to work w/ stardict? I see plenty of dictionaries for dict use, for example, but not for stardict. Or it is almost unusable program in Debian repo - as the interface program w/o the dictionaries seems to me as VCR w/o the tapes. :)

Re: [OT] Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:46:52PM EST, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:13:16 -0500 > Chris Jones wrote: > > ... > > > You wouldn't know of OSS projects sponsored by the F.B.I, I.R.S, or > > other government entities by any chance? > > SELinux - "primarily developed by the NSA": > > ht

Re: [OT] Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:13:16 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: ... > You wouldn't know of OSS projects sponsored by the F.B.I, I.R.S, or > other government entities by any chance? SELinux - "primarily developed by the NSA": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux http://www.nsa.gov/researc

[OT] Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:12:39AM EST, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:18 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English > >> here, but I would like my Icedove to handle

Re: Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:18 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English >> here, but I would like my Icedove to handle French words too. I tried >> the add-ons on the websi

Re: Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:18 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English > here, but I would like my Icedove to handle French words too. I tried > the add-ons on the website, but they seem to be written for Thunderbird > 3.x. Any idea? Try fr

Re: Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rudu writes: > Merciadri Luca a écrit : >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English >> here, but I would like my Icedove to handle French words too. I tried >

Re: Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-09 Thread rudu
Merciadri Luca a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English here, but I would like my Icedove to handle French words too. I tried the add-ons on the website, but they seem to be written for Thunderbird 3.x. Any i

Icedove 2.0 and French Dictionary

2009-12-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using Icedove 2.0 on my Debian Lenny. Everything is in English here, but I would like my Icedove to handle French words too. I tried the add-ons on the website, but they seem to be written for Thunderbird 3.x. Any idea? Thanks. - -- Merciad

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Castle
here a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show > lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Thanks in > advance. I typically use something like: strings -n 5 And that removes most of the noise. Typically the strings I'm looking for tend to be longer, so if

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West : > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > >> > caps *only* then: > >> > > >> > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$"

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: > > This means that only words that start with a caps are valid. I need > "can start with a caps, but caps can be nowhere else". I got that like > this: > grep "^[A-Za-z][a-z]*$" > However I think that there is a better way. > > This is a good exercise. I am bettering my regex

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West : > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial >> > caps *only* then: >> > >> > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" >> > >> > would match those. >> > >> >> Thanks. I meant that caps could

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > > caps *only* then: > > > > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" > > > > would match those. > > > > Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word, > not in

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Dotan writes: > Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show > lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Try this: #!/bin/bash strings "$1" | while read line do if [ ` echo "$line" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z ]//g' | wc -m`

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > > caps *only* then: > > > > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" > > > > would match those. > > > > Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word, > not in

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > caps *only* then: > > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$" > > would match those. > Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word, not in the middle. Expanding your example, I figured that would be: grep "^[A-Z]?[a-z]*$

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:00:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > ISTM that because the output of strings is not discrete list of > > potential words, but is instead a long list of concatenated > > characters, this problem is really rather daunting. The output should > > probably be first broken up

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Florian Kriener
gt; Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show > lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Thanks in > advance. What about aspell dump ? Can you not use it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> ISTM that because the output of strings is not discrete list of > potential words, but is instead a long list of concatenated > characters, this problem is really rather daunting. The output should > probably be first broken up into something resembling words by perhaps > breaking on non-alphabet

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:32:59AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <880dece00911280713n6193b8das6970e8a071fc2...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen > wrote: > >Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show > >lines that contain words found in the a

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