I have made a (half complete) English-Thai-English version of the
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) defining dictionary
and I would like to make it easy to install on flash disks, so that
Thais can use it to learn English and English speakers can use it to
learn Thai. The idea would be that, like a virtual memory page fault,
you would start out with all the words 'on disk' and none your own
memory but each day would learn 5 new words... add them to your
mnemosyne regimen, anyway.
The words, definitions and example sentences are in an sql database, so
I can write out an xml file for mnemosyne from that. Apparently I've
started this project before because I found an example that seems to
work, with entries like...
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mnemosyne core_version="1" >
<category active="1">
<name><LDOCE></name>
</category>
<item id="_0">
<cat><LDOCE></cat>
<Q>a (Det)<br/><center></center></Q>
<A><sound src="sounds/LDOCE/a/a.mp3">
(Det)<br/><center></center></A>
</item>
<item id="_0.tr.1">
<cat><LDOCE></cat>
<Q> (Det)<br/><center></center></Q>
<A>a (Det)<br/><center></center>
<sound src="sounds/LDOCE/a/a.mp3"></A>
</item>
<item id="_1">
<cat><LDOCE></cat>
<Q>ability (N)<br/><center>I have the ability to write
English sentences.</center></Q>
<A><sound src="sounds/LDOCE/a/ability.mp3">
?????????? (N)<br/><center>??????????????? ?????????????????????
??</center></A>
</item>
<item id="_1.tr.1">
<cat><LDOCE></cat>
<Q>?????????? (N)<br/><center>??????????????? ??????????????????
?????</center></Q>
<A>ability (N)<br/><center>I have the ability to write
English sentences.</center>
<sound src="sounds/LDOCE/a/ability.mp3"></A>
</item>
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This works, kind of. But it shows both the English-Thai and then the
Thai-English cards one after the other.
I'd like to be able to choose which way to go, and I'd like to add sound
in both direction, so if the Q is ability the A would be ?????????? and
that's would you'd hear when you hit Ctrl-r. Similarly, If the Q were
?????????? the A would be ability and that's what you'd hear.
The idea would that you would choose which category you wanted... say
<LDOCE th-en> or <LDOCE en-th>. And in future we might add <LDOCE en-cn>
and <LDOCE cn-en> other other categories.
Another consideration is source code control... since many people will
have individual copies of the dictionary I'll need some way of being
able to incorporate changes into a 'master' copy of the dictionary and a
means of people synchronizing their individual copies with that master.
That would be especially useful for adding new languages, where someone
might just start an <LDOCE en-xx> and an <LDOCE xx-en> from scratch.
I suppose I could use mercurial for that, although I don't know much
about mercurial or any distributed source code control system. I think
the drill involves creating a 'merge tool' for updating the master.
If anyone has suggestions on how I should best go about this I'd
appreciate hearing them.
Thanks.
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