epwing_conv

• Updated for OSX 10.9+ (Ruby 1.9+)
• Ruby 1.8 is not supported.

Usage

Based on http://www.binword.com/blog/archives/000588.html

Prerequisites

• Windows enviroment
  • Wine is alright. (ex) NXWine or CrossOver
• EBDump
  • http://ebstudio.info/home/EBDump.html
• Dictionary Development Kit
  • Make your Apple ID developer mode (free).
  • Access to https://developer.apple.com/download/
  • Select See more downloads below.
  • Search for Auxiliary tools for Xcode and download one of them
  • Open the archive and put the Dictionary Development Kit (our default is /Applications)

Dumping text using EBDump

• Prepare Windows enviroment
  • Wine is alright. (ex) NXWine or CrossOver
• list of files to extract
  • http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000022/ebd2html/ebd2html.html

Base file	Category	Output
HONMON/START	[00]本文	honmon.txt
HONMON/START	[90]前方一致かなINDEX	fkindex.txt
HONMON/START	[04]前方一致かな見出し	fktitle.txt
HONMON/START	[91]前方一致表記INDEX	fhindex.txt
HONMON/START	[05]前方一致表記見出し	fhtitle.txt
HONMON/START	[92]前方一致英字INDEX	faindex.txt
HONMON/START	[08]前方一致英字見出し	fatitle.txt
GAIJI-file/START	[F1]外字(16×16ドット)	zgaiji.txt
GAIJI-file/START	[F2]外字(8×16ドット)	hgaiji.txt

• honmon.txt is mandatory and one of fkindex.txt/fktitle.txt, fhindex.txt/fhtitle.txt or faindex.txt/fatitle.txt are also mandatory.
• 16x16 dot gaiji file is usually GA16FULL or GAI16F00.
• 8x16 dot gaiji file is usually GA16HALF or GAI16H00.

Note that:

• 出力ブロック数 (output blocks) should be the same as blks.
• テキストダンプ (text dump) type should be 記述子 (descriptor).

Building HTML using ebd2html

• Put ebd2html and ebd2html.ini in the same directory as honmon.txt.
• Edit ebd2html.ini
  • ini comment should be descriptive but you can refer to http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000022/ebd2html/ebd2html.html for detailed help
• Perform conversion: export LC_ALL=ja_JP.SJIS; ./ebd2html
  • You will see strange characters in Terminal, but don't worry. Terminal just doesn't understand SJIS. The output should be fine.
• changing locale is required for sort.

Building XML using epwing_conv

• (Let the HTML COBUILD.html and the GAIJI map cobuild.lst)
  • The GAIJI map is specific for each dictionaries, so you have to make one refering Gaiji.xml.
• ruby epwing_conv.rb < COBUILD.html | ruby gaiji_rep.rb cobuild.lst > MyDictionary.xml

Building dictionary

• Put MyInfo.plist, Makefile and MyDictionary.xml to Dictionary Development Kit's project_template.
• Edit MyInfo.plist and Makefile's parameters properly.
• make

License

Public Domain, or Creative Commons CC0.