How about a .pet of Artha thesaurus / dictionary?
How about a .pet of Artha thesaurus / dictionary?
I currently use Wordweb thesaurus/dictionary over wine but wish I had the linux better-than-wordweb clone called Artha for my Puppy 4.3.1 system.
Wordweb is one of these programs that is really missed by many people coming from Windows to Linux I feel (and personally I much prefer it to an online thesaurus).
http://artha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Home
Anyone compiled that and produced a dotpet as yet? I've searched but can't find any reference to it on the forum.
EDIT: The dotpet provided by sikpuppy in post below works fine in Puppy 4.3.1!
Wordweb is one of these programs that is really missed by many people coming from Windows to Linux I feel (and personally I much prefer it to an online thesaurus).
http://artha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Home
Anyone compiled that and produced a dotpet as yet? I've searched but can't find any reference to it on the forum.
EDIT: The dotpet provided by sikpuppy in post below works fine in Puppy 4.3.1!
Last edited by mcewanw on Fri 13 Nov 2009, 09:20, edited 1 time in total.
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Your Artha pet working fine on Puppy 4.3.1
Have now downloaded and installed your dotpet for Artha on my Puppy 4.3.1 system and it seems to be working fine! A very useful dotpet I'd say (albeit taking up a fair amount of space). I used to use Wordweb all the time when studying English and writing essays.
As a matter of interest, did you compile the program on Puppy 4.3.1 or is it from some other distribution originally?
The only thing I'm not so sure about, comparing Artha with Wordweb, is that it doesn't appear to indicate whether a displayed word is being spelled with US English or British English. For example, it recognises both 'color' and 'colour' but doesn't indicate the corresponding US/British characteristic. With so much US English saturating the web, I sometimes start mixing the two variations together; Wordweb was good at straightening me out in that regard!
As a matter of interest, did you compile the program on Puppy 4.3.1 or is it from some other distribution originally?
The only thing I'm not so sure about, comparing Artha with Wordweb, is that it doesn't appear to indicate whether a displayed word is being spelled with US English or British English. For example, it recognises both 'color' and 'colour' but doesn't indicate the corresponding US/British characteristic. With so much US English saturating the web, I sometimes start mixing the two variations together; Wordweb was good at straightening me out in that regard!
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Re: Your Artha pet working fine on Puppy 4.3.1
It was compiled from the raw source on 4.3.1. The actual executable is small, it's all the dictionaries (and there's more, in the form of various scientist level English lookups).mcewanw wrote:Have now downloaded and installed your dotpet for Artha on my Puppy 4.3.1 system and it seems to be working fine! A very useful dotpet I'd say (albeit taking up a fair amount of space). I used to use Wordweb all the time when studying English and writing essays.
As a matter of interest, did you compile the program on Puppy 4.3.1 or is it from some other distribution originally?
The only thing I'm not so sure about, comparing Artha with Wordweb, is that it doesn't appear to indicate whether a displayed word is being spelled with US English or British English. For example, it recognises both 'color' and 'colour' but doesn't indicate the corresponding US/British characteristic. With so much US English saturating the web, I sometimes start mixing the two variations together; Wordweb was good at straightening me out in that regard!
As for the US English part, Wordweb is developed by Princeton University. So I think that's where the American spelling comes in
http://artha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index ... es#WordNet
It actually appears that the main executable can be made with notification and spelling checker...dunno what that means, but i will rebuild and upload a small pet that could add this functionality presently.
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Re: Your Artha pet working fine on Puppy 4.3.1
I think you mean WordNet here rather than Wordweb. Like Artha, I believe the program Wordweb relies to a large extent on WordNet.sikpuppy wrote: As for the US English part, Wordweb is developed by Princeton University. So I think that's where the American spelling comes in :P
Actually, Artha, includes both the British and the American spellings, it just doesn't seem to identify which is which (whereas, the program wordweb does).
Really looking forward to that. Very useful. I'm surprised more users haven't commented, especially since so many ex-Windows users have said in the past how much they missed the program wordweb.sikpuppy wrote: It actually appears that the main executable can be made with notification and spelling checker...dunno what that means, but i will rebuild and upload a small pet that could add this functionality presently.
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Re: Your Artha pet working fine on Puppy 4.3.1
Yes, I stand correctedmcewanw wrote: I think you mean WordNet here rather than Wordweb. Like Artha, I believe the program Wordweb relies to a large extent on WordNet.
Actually, Artha, includes both the British and the American spellings, it just doesn't seem to identify which is which (whereas, the program wordweb does).
Really looking forward to that. Very useful. I'm surprised more users haven't commented, especially since so many ex-Windows users have said in the past how much they missed the program wordweb.
I had to travel to Sydney for a few days but rest assured I am still on the case.
As an aside, it would be nice if more Internet users at least had a inline spell checker.
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Artha thesaurus
I just came across someone requesting an offline thesaurus for Abiword http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 907#363907
I can't help thinking that not enough people realise that Artha offline thesaurus exists. It is the ideal solution to such needs, especially since it works with any installed program via its ctrl-alt-W hotkey combination. Far better, I feel, to install the full featured Artha as a dotpet than to clog up Puppy linux by including Abiword with some crummy thesaurus addon of its own. At 12 MBytes, some might say that Artha is a big download, but if a thesaurus is small in download size, it can't be a very good thesaurus anyway (more words - more size)! - all the more important that Artha inherently works as an enhancing add-on for pretty much all installed programs, not just Abiword.
Thanks to sikpuppy, you can download a dotpet of Artha via the above post: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 204#361204
I can't help thinking that not enough people realise that Artha offline thesaurus exists. It is the ideal solution to such needs, especially since it works with any installed program via its ctrl-alt-W hotkey combination. Far better, I feel, to install the full featured Artha as a dotpet than to clog up Puppy linux by including Abiword with some crummy thesaurus addon of its own. At 12 MBytes, some might say that Artha is a big download, but if a thesaurus is small in download size, it can't be a very good thesaurus anyway (more words - more size)! - all the more important that Artha inherently works as an enhancing add-on for pretty much all installed programs, not just Abiword.
Thanks to sikpuppy, you can download a dotpet of Artha via the above post: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 204#361204
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I don't know why there isn't a menu entry for it but type
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gaiksaurus
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
aiksaurus is a "set of libraries and applications"
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I've pretty much found out the answer to my own question.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 946#363946
I've pretty much found out the answer to my own question.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 946#363946
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You can edit the keybindings in
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal
<Key mask="A" key="t">exec:gaiksaurus</Key>
...pressing Alt+t will open gaiksaurus in any program then
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal
<Key mask="A" key="t">exec:gaiksaurus</Key>
...pressing Alt+t will open gaiksaurus in any program then
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here is something even better that I threw together (It uses your clipboard).. map it to this instead - I simply called it /usr/bin/thesaurus
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#!/bin/sh
if [ ! $1 ];then
MYWORD=`xclip -o`
else
MYWORD=$@
fi
gaiksaurus $MYWORD
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xclip -> thesaurus
That works really well, thanks. I forgot about xclip; I used that (or maybe xsel) myself a year or so ago in something I was working on (foksyfeyer - a screen reader+espeak configured assembly of console apps for Puppy).
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I made a pet here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49249
It can also do text to speech and google search from the clipboard
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49249
It can also do text to speech and google search from the clipboard
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].