I have been able to create a User dictionary by importing a word list to Flashcards, which creates cards with definitions from the dictionaries, then exporting the flashcards back to a text file, and finally reimporting the exported flashcard data into a user dictionary.
Please let me know if there is a simpler way.
However, there seem to be two problems
- full-text search does not work for the user dict. i.e if I switch to english mode, the user dict disappears from the possible dictionaries that can be selected
- when exporting the flash cards to a text file, the paragraph spacing of the definitions added from the dictionaries is lost.
-when editing a word definition from the imported user dictionary, links to other words in the dictionary (see xxx) appear as strange characters
I searched the forum, and saw on the android forum that someone had a similar problem, and it was resolved by pressing 'Enable full text search" for his user dictionary, however after carefully reviewing all the settings and searching the manual, I cant find that option in iOS pleco 2.2
So Q1. How do I get pleco to search the english definitions in my Chinese to english dictionary, like it does for the downloaded ones ?
Q2. can i transfer a saved user dictionary PDB to another iPhone, and add it as a user dictionary ?
Last question, Q3. wouldn't formatting be better preserved if a dictionary could be imported from an XML file instead of text ? I couldn't find any way to do that either.
I'm using pleco 2.2.13 for iOS 6.1.2
Thanks
Guy
Please let me know if there is a simpler way.
However, there seem to be two problems
- full-text search does not work for the user dict. i.e if I switch to english mode, the user dict disappears from the possible dictionaries that can be selected
- when exporting the flash cards to a text file, the paragraph spacing of the definitions added from the dictionaries is lost.
-when editing a word definition from the imported user dictionary, links to other words in the dictionary (see xxx) appear as strange characters
I searched the forum, and saw on the android forum that someone had a similar problem, and it was resolved by pressing 'Enable full text search" for his user dictionary, however after carefully reviewing all the settings and searching the manual, I cant find that option in iOS pleco 2.2
So Q1. How do I get pleco to search the english definitions in my Chinese to english dictionary, like it does for the downloaded ones ?
Q2. can i transfer a saved user dictionary PDB to another iPhone, and add it as a user dictionary ?
Last question, Q3. wouldn't formatting be better preserved if a dictionary could be imported from an XML file instead of text ? I couldn't find any way to do that either.
I'm using pleco 2.2.13 for iOS 6.1.2
Thanks
Guy