Hey everyone. I’ve done it again… a half-a-day gone to never return and all I have to show for it is some gobbledeegook in cyberspace. Actually, this time it is kind of exciting, now that I finally have a way to look up words referenced in the commentaries. It’s pretty rough right now, but you can check it out… it works, I think. Here’s a screenshot:
So, to use the lookup, just select “ATT” from the dictionary drop-down, then type in the beginning of an entry to see what is in the commentaries. Clicking on the results opens the referencing paragraph in the main window. For example, if you want to know what is said about “yutta”, for instance, you would find the following:
yutta
K 5.2.2.2 Para. 19 [03] tattha M dhajini nti senaṃ. yutta nti uyyuttaṃ. savāhana nti girimekhalanāgarājasahitaṃ. paccuggacchāmī ti abhimukho upari gamissāmi, so ca kho tejeneva, na kāyena. kasmā? mā maṃ ṭhānā acāvayi, maṃ etasmā ṭhānā aparājitapallaṅkā māro mā cālesīti vuttaṃ hoti. nappasahatī ti sahituṃ na sakkoti, nābhibhavati vā. āmaṃ patta nti kācajātaṃ mattikābhājanaṃ. asmanā ti pāsāṇena. sesamettha pākaṭameva.
K 15.1.5.2 Para. 56 [03] tattha ariyavuttina nti ariyācāre vattamānānaṃ. bhusa nti daḷhaṃ balavaṃ. atibrūhayī ti anantaragāthāya āgataṃ “mā bhāyī”ti vacanaṃ vadanto atibrūhesi mahāsaddaṃ nicchāresi. aṭṭhāsī ti sace nesādo rājānaṃ paharissati, ahaṃ pahāraṃ sampaṭicchissāmīti jīvitaṃ pariccajitvā purato aṭṭhāsi. vissāsaya nti vissāsento assāsento. byatha nti byathitaṃ bhītaṃ rājānaṃ “mā bhāyī”ti iminā vacanena vissāsento. tādisā ti tumhādisā ñāṇavīriyasampannā. yoga nti ñāṇavīriyayogaṃ. yutta nti anucchavikaṃ. dhammūpasañhita nti kāraṇanissitaṃ. tena pariyāpadānenā ti tena mayā payuttena yogena parisuddhena. pamokkhasī ti muccissasi.
K 15.3.4 Para. 163 [03] tattha purisaṃ asaṃsī ti attano upaṭṭhākaṃ āṇāpesi. ājañña nti kāraṇākāraṇajānanakasindhavaṃ. yutta nti kappitaṃ.
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Hey everyone; just managed to figure out a way to integrate accesstoinsight.org translations into the DPR. Now, when you open a sutta with an available translation on accesstoinsight.org, a button will show up for each translation available. I’ve got it working for the DN, MN, SN, and AN, but only in the Firefox extension. I’ll try to port it over to the Chrome extension as well; shouldn’t be too much trouble. Check out a screenshot:
Update: Chrome extension now includes the translation links as well.
Making a Firefox extension seemed like a pretty good idea, but then I found out that the world has already started to move on to Google Chrome, now that it too has extensions. So, plugging away again, I have come up with the Digital Pali Reader for Google Chrome. Download it here:
Google Chrome DPR extension
As many are aware, I’ve wasted put a great amount of time into creating the Digital Pali Reader as a tool to make reading the Pali texts easier for those who already have basic grammar skills. Well, a couple of months ago, while touring Northern Thailand together, one of my students gave me the idea to turn it into a Firefox extension, something I’d never thought of before but which is ideal for this particular project.
I immediately assumed it would take a lot of tweaking to turn a javascript and xml based project into a Firefox extension; turns out all it took was adding a container file, setting some variables and creating the right file structure. In a short time, I had a semi-working extension up and running. Cookies didn’t seem to work, so rather than figure out why, I moved to using Firefox’s in-built preference system, much preferable anyway. That part isn’t finished yet, but it works with a restart after changing the preferences. The rest seems to work as it should. Anyone interested should now download the reader here:
https://gaea.site5.com/~sirimang/pali/digitalpalireader.xpi
Let me know if it actually works outside of the lab.
DPR 5.11 is out, and I finally got around to doing two things:
1) I fixed a bug that repeated parts of compounds like mayamettha = maya-mayam-ettha.
2) I added color configuration support. Still basic and a few omissions, but better than nothing.
Dear Friends,
Happy to announce the release of DPR 5.0, just a short time after releasing 4.31. Why the sudden jump in numbering, you ask? It might be a little hard to tell, but I’ve put the whole program through a total reworking. You can see by the new background images that cast shadows in each other… that’s the magic of divs as opposed to frames. Anyway, it took a while to do, but I think it will make tweaking the thing a whole lot easier now. Also some other additions, so check it out, as always at the sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpali/
Dear Friends, the latest 4.24 edition of the DPR has the ability to add in extra language dictionaries, which will allow one to translate from Pali into one’s own language. I created four dictionaries myself, using google translate, and have uploaded them to sourceforge here:
Pali-French Dictionary
Pali-German Dictionary
Pali-Spanish Dictionary
Pali-Thai Dictionary
Each archive contains a single javascript file that should be added to the /DPR/DPR/js folder. This will activate the dropdown menu at the bottom right, and clicking on a word in the main window will give a definition in the corresponding language. Note that these dictionaries were created through automation, and are most likely far from perfect.
Dear friends, I think the latest version of the DPR is our most excellent offering yet. Some of the new features since the last blog post include:
* Better search function, including lists of words including search terms, and the ability to show only certain instances
* Better dictionary search, and ability to look up Pali translations of English words via the EPD.
* A Quote of the Day and a Pali Quiz function
* Lots more that I can’t remember, including many bug fixes… just check it out, and as always, let me know if you spot any new bugs.
As always, download from sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpali/
Sorry to take so long updating, but DPR is in it’s fourth release now. Lots of new features and bug fixes. I think I created a bug in the latest release, though, so some compounds may cause problems for the algorithm. Bear with me
Yes, indeed, several small bugs and I forgot to include the Vism. This one has the Vism and Mahatika, and several bug fixes besides, including complete tipitaka searches and better searches of a collection. New download page too:
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=164784&sel_platform=4716
