freedict/tools

Use PyGlossary for additional export formats

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karlb commented

The project looks like an excellent fit in our quest to support more output formats:

  • It already supports multiple interesting output formats
  • It is written in python, so it fits in well with other tooling we currently have and we can do changes if necessary
  • It already supports FreeDict TEI as output (although not as input yet)
  • The project developer was very responsive and helpful in my request to support Kobo dicts

I just got a FreeDict dictionary working on my Kobo e-reader by converting one of our .slob files into the Kobo dict format using PyGlossary. See ilius/pyglossary#205. This is a good indicator that going this route is feasible and has a good reward/effort ratio.

We suupport pyglossary now to convert to StarDict. I'll close the issue hence.
For particular formats, we should open an issue per format type that we would
like to add.