Re: Technical Computing Dictionary

[Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

Dear Klaus,


First I would like to thank you on behalf of Arabeyes for the work that
you have done. The result is simply amazing. You have done an amazing
work, I'm not sure if we will ever be able to pay back somehow.

I have uploaded your files to the server, please see the result here:
http://arabeyes.org/~djihed/techdict/

The scripts (yours and some of ours to extract the techdict info from
the database) are now cron'ed weekly on Friday 10:00 UTC 

I will email you privatly to discuss the remaining issues.

Thank you again Klaus. 

For those who would like to see the code that has been submitted, please
have a look at our CVS:

http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/translate/technicaldictionary/scripts/makedict/

Djihed

في خ، 31-05-2007 عند 03:27 +0200 ، كتب Klaus Lagally: 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have been playing around with the sources of the dictionary (thank 
> you, Djihed Afifi, for granting me access), and I also developed some 
> software to maintain and reformat it. I have no write access to the 
> Arabeyes servers (and do not want it), so some member of the project
> will have to collect the material if interested. I put the material on 
> my own server for free downloading, and I waive all owner's rights on it.
> 
> At the URL <129.69.218.213/ifi/bs/research/arabdict/> you will find:
> 
> - a file 'techdict.pdf' containing a new, two-column version of the 
> dictionary, based on the data of April 29, 2007.
> 
> - a file 'arabdict.pdf' based on the same data, but formatted right-
> to-left and sorted according to the Arabic collating sequence, for 
> Arabic/English lookup. Multiple Arabic translations for the same
> English term produce multiple entries; terms without any translation
> are omitted (what could we do with them otherwise?).
> 
> - a file 'makedict.tgz' containing the software to recreate the above
> files whenever new input data become available. There is a Perl script
> to perform and control the processing task, plus a rather large number
> of utility files. The presence of 'pdflatex' and of a reasonably current 
> version of ArabTeX are assumed. For more info see 'readme', 'manifest',
> and the source files themselves; there are comments to explain what is
> expected to happen, as the code is probably unreadable except for some
> TeX experts :-)
> 
> Note: The input data are expected to be in UTF/8 encoding in the format
> 	English text====Arabic text
> The English text is supposed to contain only ASCII characters from the
> range U+0000 - U+007F, whereas the Arabic text may only contain characters 
> from the Arabic block U+0600 - U+06FF, the Lam-Alif ligature glyphs from 
> U+FEF5 - U+FEFC, and the punctuation marks ONLY from the ASCII range 
> U+0000 - U+007F. Any other ASCII text and any other symbols outside the 
> indicated ranges may produce garbage or might even blow up the processing. 
> These restrictions come from the fact that the Arabic field is parsed in
> order to compute a sorting key, and the parser expects Arabic only.
> 
> There are, however, two exceptions:
> 
> - In the Arabic field, references to other English words are possible
> in the format 'see ASCII text' (without the quotes!).
> 
> - Within the Arabic field, English words may appear if and only if they
> are included in <angle brackets>.

> (This info ought to reside in the 'readme' file, and will migrate there;
> I leave it here to give the readers a hint on what is happening below
> the surface).
> 
> In case of problems, bugs, or just strange effects please complain by
> private E-Mail.
> 
> Peace
> 
> Klaus
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