The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-13 07:04:08

Hello,
This is my first post here and would like to present my first Mdict dictionary. I do not speak Chinese so please forgive me.

Dictionary name: The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
Words: 1179

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate.zip (116.75 KB, 下载次数: 566)

Slav · 发表于 2016-6-28 21:30:06

shmildys 发表于 2016-6-28 20:55
maybe you could decompress dictionary from mdx to txt, then use tab to format txt document and Exc ...

Anyway, putting here ones again.
Tried this method you offered. But have to say that txt file has more complicated structure. And can not be transformed to csv format by just adding tabs into it. There should be a script in Excel, that do it with each of records step by step. I just looking for the way to extract words and corresponding definitions and transcripts from a dictionary. It is a pitty but I can not do it by my self, since I am not a developer.

shmildys · 发表于 2016-6-28 20:55:14

Slav 发表于 2016-6-28 18:38
Have to say, that have the same question about creating Mdict dictionaries. Please correct me, but a ...

maybe you could decompress dictionary from mdx to txt, then use tab to format txt document and Excel will read tab to separate them.

Slav · 发表于 2016-6-28 18:38:22

本帖最后由 Slav 于 2016-6-28 21:07 编辑

Have to sayI have the same question about creating Mdict dictionaries. Please correct me if I am wrong, but there are no any MDX editor available, in order to extract dictionary to Excel file directly?

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-13 07:07:47

I am still not familiar with the Mdict format. I am unable to find documentation on the format. Please help me find one!

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-13 07:45:41

medwatt 发表于 2014-8-13 07:07
I am still not familiar with the Mdict format. I am unable to find documentation on the format. Plea ...

Welcome, medwatt.
Thank you for sharing. You already did it fairly well. See

-To know more about the mdx/mdd format,
1. Download MdxBuilder.zip.
http://www.octopus-studio.com/index.en.htm
http://www.octopus-studio.com/download.en.htm
http://www.octopus-studio.com/download/MdxBuilder.zip
2. Unzip it.
3. Read manual_Eng.txt

To convert mdx into txt, you can refer to https://bitbucket.org/xwang/mdict-analysis .

Or use GetDict 2.6 (code by yhssdl )

GetDict2.6.rar (42.53 KB, 下载次数: 248) . Unluckily, only Chinese interface is available now, but it's easy to use.

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-13 08:05:32

Here are En-En dictionaries of mdx/mdd format in this board https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/fo ... teline&typeid=4

Most of these are converted from other dictionary formats like Lingvo, Babylon etc. But some are exclusive in mdx/mdd format, and some are more beautiful than other formats. eg.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Sixth Edition https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-11746-1-1.html {We offered ru-board the data, but the dsl version actually disappointed us. The mdx/mdd made by Hugh is much more gorgeous. }
Vocabulary.com Dictionary https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-12743-1-1.html
Webster's New World College Dictionary (not 2005 version, but 2010 )https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-11994-1-1.html
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English 3rd(2010) https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-11771-1-1.html

……

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-13 08:19:39

Thanks for the links. I used to create all of my dictionaries in DSL but due to its limitations (such as <table>) I have been looking for a replacement. I thought about DSLGD but its not supported by the community. Mdict is much better than DSL because it was built with HTML and CSS online.

Just some few questions:
1). What are the supported HTML tags. Is there a reference list ?
2). Is there some editor specifically built for editing Mdict files ?

Thanks !!

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-13 09:12:52

本帖最后由 Oeasy 于 2014-8-13 09:14 编辑

medwatt 发表于 2014-8-13 08:19
Thanks for the links. I used to create all of my dictionaries in DSL but due to its limitations (suc ...

Q:1). What are the supported HTML tags. Is there a reference list ?
A: Theoretically, mdx supports all HTML tags, including <table>. MDict PC version is fundamentally a tiny (offline & online) web browser. Er, HTML5 may be not supported right now.
If you're using GoldenDict, you can actually use xml tag + css instead of html tag.
eg.
source txt file:

test
<link href="test.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<test> test </test>
</>

复制代码

and test.css

test {font-weight:bold; color:red; font-size:500%;}

复制代码

The test.mdx appeared like this in GoldenDict.

test.rar (790 Bytes, 下载次数: 76)

Q: 2). Is there some editor specifically built for editing Mdict files ?
A: No.
mdx/mdd files can't be edited directly, just like Lingvo format .lsd, which is zipped and can't be modified directly. You can convert .mdx into .txt source file, just like converting lsd into dsl. After editing the .txt, You can convert it into mdx again.

There is a software here { 所见即所得的编辑工具medit v0.06 ,支持Sql语句,HTML直接编辑 https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/thread-12645-1-1.html }.
It does treat the mdx source txt file like sql database, and can edit every entry WYSIWYG. You can have a try. Unfortunately, its interface is Chinese.

Balsampear · 发表于 2014-8-13 09:35:13

Thanks !

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-13 09:56:26

Oeasy . . . . Many thanks !!
I have about 90 DSL dictionaries . . . I'll be converting all to Mdict . . . . Just to add more editing features :)

skydan05 · 发表于 2014-8-13 11:22:13

"I have about 90 DSL dictionaries . . . I'll be converting all to Mdict . . . . Just to add more editing features :)--"thanks ever so much for your generosity and looking forward to seeing your converted dictionaries.

我爱mdict · 发表于 2014-8-13 15:44:10

Thank for your incredible generosity!BTW,where are you from?

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-14 01:16:43

Oeasy . . . is it possible to use internal style sheets such as:
<head>
<style>
</style>
</head>
Also: when using MdxBuilder, I cannot add an external CSS file. It says "Invalid style format style"!

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-14 01:25:03

medwatt 发表于 2014-8-14 01:16
Oeasy . . . is it possible to use internal style sheets such as:

Yes, it's acceptable.

medwatt · 发表于 2014-8-14 01:28:51

本帖最后由 medwatt 于 2014-8-14 01:37 编辑

I'm having problems using CSS correctly. The file you provided yesterday (test.mdx) did not load the CSS. Can you provide a file or example where internal stylesheet is used and how to load CSS files in MdxBuild.
Thanks

[EDIT] Is it possible to link the style sheet just once instead of for every entry?

Instead of this
word1
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csh.css"/>
.......
</>
word2
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csh.css"/>
.......
</>
word3
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csh.css"/>
.......
</>

This
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csh.css"/>
word1
.......
</>
word2
.......
</>

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-14 01:41:27

medwatt 发表于 2014-8-14 01:28
I'm having problems using CSS correctly. The file you provided yesterday (test.mdx) did not load the ...

test_internal_css.rar (726 Bytes, 下载次数: 79)

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-14 01:45:36

本帖最后由 Oeasy 于 2014-8-14 01:46 编辑

medwatt 发表于 2014-8-14 01:28
I'm having problems using CSS correctly. The file you provided yesterday (test.mdx) did not load the ...

Actually, the code

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csh.css"/>

复制代码

is optional.

If the mdx and css are in the same directory, the css which has the same name of the mdx will take effect automatically, no <link.....> needed.

Oeasy · 发表于 2014-8-14 02:03:18

本帖最后由 Oeasy 于 2014-8-14 10:36 编辑

The "Style" on MdxBuilder is MDict Format File (*.txt), not *.css file. "MDict Format File" is NOT *.css, but a special piece of code to help decrease the size of MDict source file. To read [manual_Eng.txt] may be helpful.

If you want to use external *.css, there're three ways.

1. Note: GoldenDict doesn't support this! Only MDict itself supports it right now.
<link href="test.css" rel="stylesheet" /> is not needed. Just put test.css and test.mdx in the same directory, the css will take effect automatically.
[test.mdx + test.css, no <link href="test.css" rel="stylesheet" /> in the source txt file, but the .css and .mdx file should have the same name and in the same directory. ]

2.
<link href="faint.css" rel="stylesheet" /> is needed. On this condition, the css file can have different name with the mdx file. Just put them in the same directory, it will take effect.
[test.mdx + faint.css, <link href="faint.css" rel="stylesheet" /> in the source txt file, the .css and .mdx can have different names, but should be in the same directory.]

3.
<link href="faint.css" rel="stylesheet" /> is needed. You can zip the css into the mdd file. Just treat the css file as data.
[test.mdx + test.mdd, <link href="faint.css" rel="stylesheet" /> in the source txt file, faint.css is in the mdd. The .css and .mdx can have different names. The mdx and mdd should have the same name and in the same directory ]

You can upload a sample of your source txt file with tens of entries. This may save a lot of time.

yangxiups · 发表于 2014-8-14 09:02:12

Learning!

3xyz · 发表于 2014-8-14 11:38:01

Thank you for sharing.

eeejj · 发表于 2014-8-15 00:30:46

jizer · 发表于 2016-2-23 20:54:56

Oeasy 发表于 2014-8-13 08:05
Here are En-En dictionaries of mdx/mdd format in this board https://www.pdawiki.com/forum/forum.php?m ...

PurlingNayuki · 发表于 2016-5-9 03:42:21

Thank you for sharing this dictionary.

kyletruman · 发表于 2016-5-9 08:57:47

thank u for sharing of the dictionary.

[英英] The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate