Apertium-view

Note: After Apertium's migration to GitHub, this tool is read-only on the SourceForge repository and does not exist on GitHub. If you are interested in migrating this tool to GitHub, see Migrating tools to GitHub.

Apertium-view is a little program which can be used to view and edit the output of the various stages of an apertium translation.

The various stages update while you type, and a change made in any one pane updates the subsequent stages.

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Currently, the program is in its early stages and it will take some time before it becomes fully usable. But if you are a developer with some knowledge of Python and PyGTK, you can already dive in.

What you need

• The Apertium D-Bus Service
• A working Apertium 3.0 installation (note: this must be installed)
• The python bindings for the GTK SourceView V 2.0 module if you want syntax highlighting

Getting apertium-view

Note: After Apertium's migration to GitHub, this tool is read-only on the SourceForge repository and does not exist on GitHub. If you are interested in migrating this tool to GitHub, see Migrating tools to GitHub.

Check out the apertium-tools/apertium-view from the subversion repository.

Running apertium-view

If you installed the D-Bus service for Apertium correctly, Apertium-view should just work (you should only have to run python apertium-view.py). If it fails to start up, then there might be a problem with your D-Bus setup. Have a look at the D-Bus page for possible solutions, or come and ask for help in #apertium on irc.oftc.net.

Testing unreleased language pairs from source

You need to install your language pair it in /usr: ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; make install (the last as root). If make install fails with stat() './en-eo.mode': No such file or directory, then try first ln -s modes/* .

Feature requests

• Removing scrollbars when not wanted.
• Allow users to set 'mark unknown words' or not.
• Automatically resizing panes to fill the screen (when others are minimised)
• Syntax highlighting

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• Moving chunks as units rather than text.
• Configuration / choosing language pair in the GUI.
• Option to be able to click on an analysis to remove it. (basically, when you click in between / /, it removes the part in between. Would need CTRL+Z to be able to restore analyses (see below).
• Some kind of undo on a per text-pane/stage basis.
• Ability to detach windows (particularly input and output windows).
• Scroll panes down when they fill with more information.
• Remember settings when closed.

Related software

• Apertium-viewer is an improved version, which does not require dbus and which is written in Java

• Apertium-tolk is similar to, but much simpler than Apertium-view. It only has an input window and an output window. Where Apertium-view is aimed at developers, Apertium-tolk is intended to be as user friendly as possible.