GD abbreviation functionality (Abbrev.dsl)

[det]

How is GoldenDict supposed to handle dsl labels (set off by [p]...[/p])? From http://goldendict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=75 I understand that they are supported. But isn't the full form of the abbreviation supposed to display on mouse-over or on mouse-click?

Using the [p] tags, I get the abbreviations to display in green. On mouse-over, the cursor also switches from the select icon to the arrow icon. However, no full form/definition displays. Following the forum post above, my abbrev.dsl is formatted as follows:

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# NAME "Abbrev"
# INDEX_LANGUAGE "English"
# CONTENTS_LANGUAGE "English"

a.
   adjective
adv.
   adverb

A follow-on question: what is the preferred way for handling the period following the abbreviation? (I have it with and without.)

(Using GD 0.9.0+git on linux - Ubuntu 10.04. I have also been checking this with a Windows installation.)

[Gloggy]

Abbreviations should work just fine. The only thing to be aware of is the proper naming. So that if your main dictionary file is named my_dictionary.dsl, then the abbreviations file MUST be named my_dictionary_abrv.dsl (adding _abrv to the end).

[det]

Gloggy - yes, naming was the problem. My dictionary had been name.utf16.dsl.dz. Once I got rid of the .utf16 part to leave: name.dsl.dz and name_abrv.dsl it worked great. Now I get the lovely full form on mouse-over. Thanks!

[murdock_john]

Hi,

Is it be possible to have colored labels in GoldenDict? In the DSL documentation it is said that you can use them, but I don't see them work here.

I mean, instead of plain [p]adv.[/p], to have [c teal][p]adv.[/p][/c]. Using the latter, GoldenDict can't distinguish the color.

[Gloggy]

I mean, instead of plain [p]adv.[/p], to have [c teal][p]adv.[/p][/c]. Using the latter, GoldenDict can't distinguish the color.

This is how DSL files work, according to its "reference implementation" in Abbyy Lingvo. So, anything that marked with p tag will always override any other color.

BUT, you could adjust your CSS settings for GoldenDict so that p tag could be colored with any color you'd like (similar option exists in Lingvo settings as well).

[murdokc_john]

Thanks for the information! I raised the question because according to this page, http://informationworker.ru/lingvo.en/d ... atures.htm, one can freely choose the color for a specific label. Of course, I could follow your advice and change the CSS settings, but then, I want to have different labels with different colors, e.x. [p]adv.[/p] but (i)[c slateblue][p]Mainly N.A.[/p][/c](/i). I can't find a way to personalize my choices...

[ikm]

Have you tried hosting [c] inside [p]?

[murdokc_john]

ikm, what can I say, thank you!

[Gloggy]

ikm, what can I say, thank you!

Heh, then this is an incompatibility between GoldenDict implementiation of Lingvo DSL and the reference implementation by Abbyy Lingvo

In the official Abby Lingvo imlementation, no mater which order is used, p-tagged entries are *always* of the "label" color (typically, green).

P.S. I just double-checked and indeed, Lingvo x3 shows both cases in green color.

[det]

The abbreviation mouse-over text is not displaying in my Bengali-Bengali dictionary. This is the same dsl formatting as with my other Bengali-English dictionary, which works fine. I can't see any difference between the two -- only that this one has unicode Bengali script. Could that be the problem? Goldendict recognizes the file -- it shows up in the dictionaries dialog. The abbreviations are also displayed in the correct green italics formatting. It is just the mouse-over that doesn't work.

Here's a sample of the _abrv.dsl

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প্র.
     প্রবাদ, প্রবচন (proverb)
বর্জি.
     বর্জিত বা বর্জনযোগ্য (rejected)