Tinylex on a Palm

Mobile dictionaries for Palm can be generated using the dix2tiny task in apertium-dixtools package.

Palm OS Emulation

Requirements

• Apertium DixTools
• PalmOpenDic
• A Palm device

Download and install Apertium DixTools

• See Apertium-DixTools.

Generating dictionaries for PalmOpenDic

$ apertium-dixtools dix2tiny <dix> <lang-pair> <lang-pair-text> <platform> [<filter>]

where:

• dix: an apertium bilingual dictionary (.dix).
• lang-pair: the code for the language pair (es-ca, en-es, etc.)
• lang-pair-text: the name of the language pair (Spanish-Catalan, English-Catalan, etc.)
• platform: in this particular case (dictionaries for Palm), the option must be 'palm'.
• filter: an XML config file with some filtering rules.

Example:

$ apertium-dixtools dix2tiny apertium-en-es.en-es.dix en-es English-Spanish palm config-en-es.xml

This command will generate two files:

• en-es-data.cc
• en-es-apertium-palm.pdb. This is the file required for PalmOpenDic.

Find a few examples of .pdb files in the apertium-tiny-palm SVN directory.

An example of configuration file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
<properties>
    <comment>Configuration</comment>

    <!-- force to preserve the following tags -->
    <entry key="preserveTags">n,adj,adv,vblex</entry>

    <!-- force to ignore the following tags -->
    <entry key="ignoreTags">GD,ND,cm</entry>

    <!-- ignore tags not listed in 'preserveTags' and 'ignoreTags' properties -->
    <entry key="ignoreNotListedTags">no</entry>

    <!-- characters to remove -->
    <entry key="removeCharacters">\\*</entry>

    <!-- characters to replace with blank -->
    <entry key="replaceCharactersWithBlank">_</entry>

    <entry key="rename_n">noun</entry>
    <entry key="rename_adv">adverb</entry>
    <entry key="rename_adj">adjective</entry>
    ...
</properties>

Screenshots

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  Searching dictionary entries

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  Example of dictionary entry

Video demo

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Related software

• Apertium TinyLex: a J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) program for mobile devices which looks up dictionary entries.

External links

• TinyLex.com: Apertium TinyLex binaries for Palm at tinylex.com.
• PalmOpenDic: PalmOS dictionary application for PalmOS 3.5 or higher. It can be used to view (and search in) dictionaries which are stored on your Palm.
• Palm OS Emulator is used for writing, testing, and debugging Palm OS applications.
• J-Pilot: a desktop organizer application for PalmOS devices.