GTK Dictionary handles dictionaries stored in MySQL server.
Here are some key features of "GTK Dictionary":
· All dictionaries are stored in MySQL server, you can switch using different dictionaries and databases
· Output with two different fonts, no need to use unicode storing dictionary databases. This makes possible to use European-Cyrillic dictionaries for example
· Cyrillic auto detection, so gtkdic is smart enough to recognizes Cyrillic words and uses different font to display'em.
· Search in word/articles, incremental search and other search modes
· Word history which can be retrieved by mouse or using key shortcuts
· You can add new articles to dictionaries
· Command line utility which can be used in key shortcuts for example to pop-up the gtkdic
· Nice printing via LaTeX supporting mixed European-Cyrillic characters
· Support using xclipboard buffer
· File open/save operations
· Small Web based dictionary as a part of package
Here are some key features of "GTK Dictionary":
· MySQL server 3.22 or higher
· MySQL client library - libmysqlclient
· Perl running on your box
· DBD::Mysql perl module (Perl/Tk version only)
· Tk perl module (tested with Tk800.023) (Perl/Tk version only)
· GTK+ 1.2.0 and higher, GTK2 is on the way, but not ready yet (GTK+ version only)
Install:
1. Install MySQL with native charset (koi8-r in my case).
2. Create user and grant enough perms to create databases in MySQL.
(smth. like:
>mysql
mysql>mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO gtkdic IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
)
2a. Create user(s) which will connect to database ptkdic and give enough perms to them.
3. Look at create-dic-db.sh, install-dictionary.sh (MYSQL, MYSQLUSER ...), edit if need.
4. Compile gtkdic (make, make install see INSTALL for configure details)
5. Run create-dic-db.sh to create database which will store dictionaries.
6. Copy gtkdicrc.templ $HOME/.gtkdic/gtkdicrc
7. Edit $HOME/.gtkdic/gtkdicrc
8. Install dictionaries (type 'install-dictionary.sh dicname.gz').
(All dicts require more than ~280Mb of mysql's space).
9. Run gtkdic & enjoy
10. If you need system wide rc- file you can copy gtkdicrc.templ to $prefix/etc/gtkdicrc; by default - /usr/local/etc/gtkdicrc. Alse see ./configure --help.
User rc- file has priority over system wide one. Also you can set environment variables: DIC_HOST, DIC_DB, DIC_USER, DIC_PWD.
They have highest priority.
Keys:
In entry boxes you can use the following keys:
< Enter > - start search
< Up/Down > - history
< Esc > - erase word
You can enter iso-8859-1 letters as is or use:
'A' for 'A' with dots
'o' for 'o' with dots and so on...
Settings:
Word settings:
"Exact match only" - search exact match, quit search if not found;
"Exact match, then..." - continue glob search if there's no exact matches;
"Glob match only" - start glob word search ( '*word*' pattern )
Article settings:
"Word boundary" - search in articles; use '* word *' pattern;
"Word boundary left" - use '* word*' pattern;
"Word boundary right" - use '*word *' pattern;
"Word boundary both" - use '*word*' pattern
Updating database:
Use configure --with-edit to compile with this feature.
Type word into left entry and translation into text area, then use
'Update dictionary' from menu.
Audio output:
Use configure --with-audio to compile with this feature.
Look at bin/gtkdic-say.sh.
Printing:
All printing goes thru latex/dvips programs.
Pop-Up feature:
./configure --with-socklsn. In your WM (or external program like xbindkeys) define hot keys to run gtkdicctl. In case with xbindkeys add to ~/.xbindkeysrc smth. like this:
"gtkdicctl -c uniconify || gtkdic &"
control+shift + d
"gtkdicctl -c clip_search_word &"
control+shift + t
"gtkdicctl -c clip_search_art &"
control+shift + r
"gtkdicctl -c iconify &"
control+shift + z
Restart xbindkeys, run gtkdic and enjoy (select some word in any app. and press hot key)
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