[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad

Sun Dec 8 11:46:25 UTC 2013

Many thanks to Audrey, Charles and Tim for these suggestions.  I've been
using the pdfs for some time, but as Audrey says, it's a bit slow.  I'll
try out these additional methods.

Audrey I'd like to particularly compliment you and your colleagues on the
feature that shows related compounds, and not just those beginning with the
search-word but also those including it or ending with it (as in
Kotonoko)-extremely useful bit.  Although it's probably not simple, if in
future releases it would be lovely if you can enable expanding and
contracting the view on the phone with fingers, and the option to switch
contrast from white against black background to the reverse.

Charles, your  Kotonoko link is no longer working:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/kotonoko
but this seems the latest version, 2.1.16
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kotonoko/id593460126?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

I may ping you later for some technical pointers.

Cheers
James

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Lubin, Tim <LubinT at wlu.edu> wrote:

>  The new Academic Room Skt Dictionary iPhone app sounds great in that it
> combines multiple dictionaries.  There is also an existing free
> Monier-Williams app which I have been using till now:
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monier/id580775858?mt=8
> Fre
>  Mac computers: dictionaries can be added to the Dictionary app by
> inserting .dictionary files into the Dictionary folder inside the system
> Library folder.  R. Pollock has used DictUnifier (as Charles DiSimone
> suggests in the preceding message) to produce a decent version of MW:
> http://rpollack.net/2009/04/monier-williams-for-apples-dictionaryapp/
> (the link to the compressed 40 MB file is buried in the middle of a
> paragraph:
> *http://rpollack.net/mw-Sanskrit-English.dictionary.zip*<http://rpollack.net/mw-Sanskrit-English.dictionary.zip>
>
>  I find it very convenient to be able to search MW using the Mac
> Dictionary app, though there is the problem that some entries that refer to
> another entry in another column cannot be tracked down easily, and there
> are a few miscoded words.
>
>  Tim
>
>  Timothy Lubin
> Professor of Religion
> Washington and Lee University
> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>
>  http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint
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>
>
>
>   From: Charles DiSimone <charlesdisimone at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:49 PM
> To: James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> Cc: Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad
>
>   Dear James,
>
>  If you need an offline Sanskrit dict for OSX there are several options.
>
>  With an app called DictUnifier you can turn stardict files into mac
> dictionary files and search them from Apple's native dictionary app.  It is
> quite convenient and useful, with many dictionaries available (MW, Apte,
> the Pali Text Society dict, etc.):
>
>  https://code.google.com/p/mac-dictionary-kit/downloads/list
>
>  You can also use the Kotonoko app, which has dictionaries available for
> MW, Apte, Tibetan dicts, and many others:
>
>  http://osx.iusethis.com/app/kotonoko
>
>  You can even make the Köln online MW dict available locally on your hard
> drive for offline use:
>
>  http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/index.html
>
>  Additionally, while I am quite pleased to see this new iOS dictionary,
> I'd like to point out that there are several Sanskrit dictionaries
> available in the app store for free in case anyone wants to save $5 (not
> that this is an expensive price for the convenience of these dictionaries
> in your pocket!).
>
>  Best wishes,
> Charlie
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:59 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Great work!
>>
>>  Do you have a Mac OSX version to use on laptops?
>>
>>
>>  On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Audrey Truschke <
>> audrey.truschke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Dear Indology Folks,
>>>
>>>  This announcement comes courtesy of Harpreet Singh at Harvard.
>>> Exciting news!
>>>
>>>  *ANNOUNCEMENT: Sanskrit Dictionary App for **iPhone and iPad*
>>>
>>>  Our national nightmare of lugging around Monier-Williams is finally
>>> over.  We have just released a Sanskrit dictionary app for iPhone and iPad.
>>> The app, developed in the Harvard Innovation Lab, combines three major
>>> dictionaries that are commonly used by scholars of
>>> Sanskrit--Monier-Williams, Apte and Macdonell. In addition, references from
>>> *dhatu-patha* (a collection of verbal roots with final forms) are also
>>> provided, when available. All words can be searched using a Devanagari
>>> keyboard.  Once downloaded, the app does not require internet access to
>>> operate. Special thanks to the faculty in Harvard's Department of South
>>> Asian Studies for their encouragement and support during the app's
>>> development.
>>>
>>>  More Information: http://www.tinyurl.com/sanskrit-app
>>>
>>>  If you missed the announcement about classical Hindi app for iOS and
>>> Android, you can learn about it here: http://tinyurl.com/hindi-app
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>> The University of Trento, Italy
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