Re: [9front] ktrans

["Rodrigo G. López" <rgl@antares-labs.eu>]

hi kenji.

i can't find any reference to the mechanism to edit the jisho on the fly you mention. is it the ctl-x shortcut to refresh the in-memory jisho?

people can choose their own jisho through the $jisho environment variable. i didn't document that, but i will update the manpage and also add romi's tool to merge different jishos—which the user can use to build their own jishos for the given task/environment—this weekend.

i'm learning japanese and i'm far from experienced, so i could use all the help i can get. :)

i'd like to talk to you about the transformations you did to the original skk dict (SKK-JISYO.M afaict), in order to automate it and document it as much as possible, so people can add their own entries from scratch.

i can contact you off-list if you prefer.


cheers!

-rodri

On July 8, 2022 12:38:57 AM UTC, kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote:
>Quoth romi <r@grtsk.net>:
>> I didn’t realised that Kenji’s READMEs had a trailing indent (just bellow the 9th bullet of the features list) haha
>> 
>> Anyway, awesome to have ktrans shipped with 9front out of the box!
>
>I asked to put ktrans to 9front's contrib several years ago, and I agreed
>it with no maintainance by myself.
>The ktrans was written more than 20 years ago, then, I don't remember it...
>
>When I was asked to collaborate with GSOC last year, I wrote to the author 
>the principle under ktrans, then, I'll put it here again (the last time I'll write about this).
>
>1) the most essential thing about ktrans is not in ktrans, but in pipefile.
>2) pipefile was invented by Rob Pike which made us enbale to write Japanese
>seamlessly, which means we can trewat Japanese, Greek and Russian as 
>English.
>3) more precisely, WE DON'T NEED TO WRITE PROGRAMS FOR INDIVIDUAL
>LANGUAGE!
>4) for ktrans proper, I chose the ktrans-jisho for individual user not system wide, because
>each person has each habits to write Japanese, then it is better to have 
>individual dictionary (Japanese has many different Kanji with the same sound, homophone)
>This is intentional, don't make it change.
>5) I also intentionary exclude proper and technical nouns, because those depend
>on inviduals.
>6) instead, I put tyhe mechanism to edit the ktrans-jisho on the fly.
>7) 9front version includes pipekbd.c written by cinap, which is the same thing
>of pipefile because 9front has kbdfs.
>
>Kenji
>
>PS. if chinese has not so homophone, it may be easier to include it in ktrans...
>