Module koplugin.japanese
Japanese language support for KOReader, modelled after Yomichan.
This plugin extends KOReader's built-in dictionary and selection system to support Yomichan-style deinflection and text scanning, allowing for one-tap searches of inflected verbs and multi-character words and phrases. As such, this plugin removes the need for synonym-based deinflection rules for StarDict-converted Japanese dictionaries.
Functions
| onWordLookup (args) | Called from languagesupport.extraDictionaryFormCandidates for Japanese text. |
| onWordSelection (args) | Called from languagesupport.improveWordSelection for Japanese text. |
Issues
| onWordLookup-todo11 |
Try to repeatedly reduce the text and deinflect the shortened text |
| onWordLookup-todo11-todo12 |
Pass up the reasons list (formatted Yomichan style) to the |
Functions
- onWordLookup (args)
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Called from languagesupport.extraDictionaryFormCandidates for Japanese
text. Tries to find and return any possible deinflections for the given text.
Parameters:
- args arguments from language support
Returns:
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{string,...}
extra dictionary form candiadates found (or nil)
See also:
- onWordSelection (args)
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Called from languagesupport.improveWordSelection for Japanese text.
Tries to expand the word selection defined by args.
Parameters:
- args arguments from language support
Returns:
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{pos0,pos1}
the new selection range (or nil)
See also:
Issues
- onWordLookup-todo11
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Try to repeatedly reduce the text and deinflect the shortened text
to provide more candidates. This is particularly needed because JMDict has a habit of creating entries for compounds or phrases that do not exist in monolingual dictionaries (even in 大辞林 or 広辞苑) and our onWordSelection expansion accepts any dictionary's largest entry. Unfortunately doing this nicely requires a bit of extra work to be efficient (since we need to remove the last character in the string). - onWordLookup-todo11-todo12
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Pass up the reasons list (formatted Yomichan style) to the
dictionary pop-up so you can get some more information about the inflection. But this would require adding some kind of tag metadata that we have to pass through from the lookup to the dictionary pop-up.