dictionary – Parerga und Paralipomena http://www.michelepasin.org/blog At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded - Wittgenstein Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 13825966 Accessing OS X dictionary with Python http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2015/11/28/accessing-os-x-dictionary-with-python/ Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:57:06 +0000 http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/?p=2724 A little script that allows to access the OS X Dictionary app using Python.

Tip: make the script executable and add an alias for it in order to be able to call it from the command line easily.

 

]]> 2724 NoDictionaries.com :: innovative way to read latin classics http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/2010/09/19/nodictionaries-com-innovative-way-to-read-latin-classics/ Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:02:37 +0000 http://www.michelepasin.org/blog/?p=907 NoDictionaries is a web app that makes it very easy to look up the meaning of words while reading a latin text. It uses a freely available latin dictionary (Whitaker’s Words) and what it does is essentially to enrich each line of a latin text with the explanations of the words appearing in it.

Nothing too difficult, you might think. True – but the clean and simple graphical layout, coupled with a quick and responsive interface, seemed to me the real winner here.

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The site, built as a master project by a student of Tufts uni (that’s where the Perseus project lives, I believe..), features a pretty big number of latin texts. So if you want to brush up your latin, you definitely won’t get bored here.

Very nice work – inspiring and straight to the point! A more extensive review of this app can be found here (note: the review is particularly good for latinists).

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