Hi Tamás,

attached is my Perl script for a similar task, adapted to your data sample.
It includes automatic sorting of entries with the Sort::ArbBiLex module

https://metacpan.org/pod/Sort::ArbBiLex

Note that the Hungarian sort order in the script is not complete, because
I'm not sure what it should be like, so please complete it before you use
the script. The (very simple) format is described both at the link above
and more briefly in the script documentation (perl ./build-dictionary.pl
--man)

The (short) help text is as follows:

# build-dictionary.pl

The script assumes that there is a YAML file
'dictionary.yaml' in the current directory which contains
data in one of the forms described below in the current
directory.

The data will be sorted according to a customizable sort
order defined in the script (see SORTING below!) which must
be edited as desired.

Then the data is printed to a Pandoc Markdown pipe table in
'dictionary.md', one Hungarian—English word pair per row.

Try --man for full documentation!

## LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2020  by Benct Philip Jonsson.

This is free software, licensed under:
                                       The MIT (X11) License
                                     <
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>


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Den lör 11 juli 2020 23:41Tamás Ferenci <tamas.ferenci-nmadKexVIb0HWmgEVkV9KA@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> Dear All,
>
> I was thinking of implementing a very-very simple dictionary with pandoc.
> The idea is the following: I store the necessary information in a
> YAML-file, such as this:
>
> ---
> dictionary:
> - hungarian: asztal
>   english: table
>   remark: Can be made of wood.
> - hungarian: szék
>   english: chair
>   remark: We sit on it.
> ...
>
> Then I use a pandoc conversion with a custom template to produce a
> markdown file (arranging them in a table or list), to which I again apply
> pandoc to convert to HTML. Both a Hungarian-English and an
> English-Hungarian dictionary could be produced; a simple script could
> automate this whole process, using the above YAML file as an input and
> producing the two HTML files as outputs.
>
> My first problem is however whether it is possible at all to sort the
> entries (alphabetically) with a template?
>
> If not, are there any good solutions to this problem? Or pandoc is simply
> not suited to solve a task like this...?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Tamas
>
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