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soshial / xdxf_makedict

XDXF — an open and free dictionary format, that stores word articles in a structural and semantic way. The most convertible format

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Dictionary shells supporting XDXF #35

Open nikita-moor opened 5 years ago

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

Which dictionary software supports XDXF?:

GoldenDict Mobile (Android) does not support XDXF, however it understands StarDict with XDXF markup (type 'x').
Alpus (Android, iOS, desktop) officially supports XDXF. ~~In fact, it recognizes only first headword (<k>) in the articles with multiple keys.~~ (was fixed in release v9.0)
Aard2 (Android) reads only its own format Slob, but conversion tool xdxf2slob understands XDXF more or less correctly. (Extensive testing of every XDXF feature is needed.)

soshial commented 5 years ago

Did you have a try at Goldendict for desktop? To what degree does it support XDXF?

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

Goldendict for desktop. Among the features I use in my dictionaries, only small problems exist:

<kref> with idref attribute #348;
it's not clear how <co> should be styled, currently GoldenDict surrounds it with parentheses. It would be better if you publish reference design showing how a sample article would look;
combinations of tags <c><i> or <i><c> are rendered with unwanted spaces (remember me to submit bug);
~~examples <ex> were recently improved #1135~~.

soshial commented 5 years ago

Sounds like not very far full support of rev 33, am I right? Should we add it to the list? May I copy the list to the README on repo main page?

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

Sure, I created this issue only because you were asking "please send me other examples, that I dont know of".

P.S. Author of Alpus is currently fixing support of XDXF. Testing version works very good, so waiting for release.

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

New beta-version of Alpus (see Testing Downloads) is fully compatible with XDXF v33 as far as can judge.

soshial commented 5 years ago

@nikita-moor, Do you think we could invite the author to our project to get some advice/experience from them?

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

You could get in touch with the developer of Alpus by e-mail, he answers quickly and is open for questions related to the app; but it seems he does not feel GitHub being a convenient place for discussion. Anyway, I am sure he is reading this thread and have seen your invitation.

nikita-moor commented 5 years ago

GoldenDict: format tags bug #1164.

nikita-moor commented 2 years ago

Linguae (last release in 2011): can read XDXF. It's an old project, but Python code is open.

nikita-moor commented 2 years ago

SimpleDict (last release in 2009): can read XDXF.

soshial commented 2 years ago

Thanks, @nikita-moor, I added Alpus to the list. I decided no to add really old projects, since they don't support recent versions of the standard.