Table of content

• Dictionary user instructions
  • Grab latest files to use for with my stardict compatible program.
  • Dictionary program recommendations and download help for mobile devices
• Dictionary developer instructions
  • Initial setup.
  • Update dictionary files
    • To force update dictionary files
  • Dictionary popularity metrics
  • Other notes
  • Cologne to babylon convertor

Dictionary user instructions

Grab latest files to use for with your stardict compatible program.

Options:

• See tips in https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/dictionaries/offline/ for installing on your computer/ phone / tablet.
• Just download and extract one of the below archives:
  • Usually very outdated all_dicts_stardict_sanskrit.tar.gz

Dictionary program recommendations and download help (esp for mobile devices)

• https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/site/pages/dictionaries/offline.html

Organization

• Dictionaries are stored in multiple repositories under indic-dict, for example: stardict-sanskrit-vyAkaraNa, stardict-kannada etc..
• Some external pre-built dictionaries also on archive.org (as in the case of stardict-english).

Builds

• Dictionaries are built with either github actions or travis-ci and deployed to gh-pages branch of the repository. For example:
  • stardict-sanskrit/gh-pages from stardict-sanskrit
  • stardict-tamil/gh-pages from stardict-tamil
• Within the output branch, for each dictionary collection, the following folders are produced:
  • tars with compressed (xyz.tar.gz) dictionary files for use with stardict clients.
  • slob files for use with aard2 dictionary clients.
  • per-headword text files for use with HTTP calls.

Development

Cologne to babylon convertor

https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/cologne-stardict - make_babylon.py is the workhorse.

Latest stardict binaries

Sometimes, latest stardict binaries may be required.

• Extract the latest stardict tools package (https://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict-4/files/3.0.1/stardict-tools-3.0.1.tar.bz2/download) in ~/stardict/tools directory. Then do cd stardict/tools and build it (Run ./configure and make as described in the INSTALL file in the directory - but don't remove the compiled binaries from the src directory.).
  • A shortcut if you are running Linux on a 64 bit computer: Just git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sanskrit-coders/stardict in your home directory.
• Install stardict-tools-git
  • Replaces outdated step: git clone git@github.com:sanskrit-coders/stardict.git. Then build it with ./configure, make etc..

Other notes

Recipe to convert decompiled en-head dictionaries from ajita to sa-head dictionaries: ^.+\t(.+?). should be replaced by \1\t

Dictionary popularity metrics

• For properly releaseed dictionaries, one can get stats as shown here.