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lwtproject
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Message 257 of 355

24 January 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged

hrhenry wrote:

Do you have any plans to be able to include other types of media besides audio along with the
text? I ask because I just input a piece of text that references people and objects in a picture.

Sorry, this is not planned.
My personal opinion about this: Other media like images or movies may distract the learner from the text.
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Splog
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Message 258 of 355

24 January 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged

lwtproject wrote:

hrhenry wrote:

Do you have any plans to be able to include other types of media besides audio along with the
text? I ask because I just input a piece of text that references people and objects in a picture.

Sorry, this is not planned.
My personal opinion about this: Other media like images or movies may distract the learner from the text.

I have been thinking of adding support for movies to LWT. I know that we are free to fork the project, but I don't want to implement something that is planned in the original LWT. Now that I know that movies won't be in LWT I think I will get on with implementing it.
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Quabazaa
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Message 259 of 355

24 January 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged

lwtproject wrote:

In detail, the characters recognized in words are the following ranges:
؀-ۿ   \x{0600}-\x{06FF}
ݐ-ݭ   \x{0750}-\x{076D}
ﭐ-﷼   \x{FB50}-\x{FDFC}
ﹰ-ﻼ   \x{FE70}-\x{FEFC}

Please look at these lists to see all characters in these 4 ranges:
Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
In detail:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0750.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB50.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE70.pdf

If you want to remove characters from these 4 ranges, you have to modify them so that
the unwanted characters
aren't anymore in these ranges.

Ex.: Instead of specifying ranges A-I, you can also specify a string of allowed
characters, like: ABCDEFGHI.

Ok thank you, that makes a lot more sense now! I will see if I can get it to work like
I want.
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lwtproject
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24 January 2012 at 3:55pm | IP Logged

Splog wrote:

Now that I know that movies won't be in LWT I think I will get on with implementing it.

You are very welcome to do so - even if you do it just for you personally and not want to publish it.
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Message 261 of 355

24 January 2012 at 3:57pm | IP Logged

Quabazaa wrote:

Ok thank you, that makes a lot more sense now! I will see if I can get it to work like
I want.

It would be great if you would post your final (best) language settings for Arabic here and/or in the language
settings spreadsheet http://bit.ly/xwF3EJ

Thank you!
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Remy
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Message 262 of 355

20 February 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged

I've been trying to use this online Pashto dictionary in LWT but haven't been having much luck. Is there a specific
way that I need to be formatting the URL when I set it as a dictionary in LWT?

http://www.qamosona.com/AA/g/index.php/index/4.xhtml
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lwtproject
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Message 263 of 355

20 February 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged

Remy wrote:

I've been trying to use this online Pashto dictionary in LWT but haven't been having much luck. Is
there a specific
way that I need to be formatting the URL when I set it as a dictionary in LWT?

http://www.qamosona.com/AA/g/index.php/index/4.xhtml

The search term is not part of the dictionary URI, so it cannot be used automatically within LWT.
You can use it manually via copy & paste in a separate window.
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nutem
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Message 264 of 355

13 March 2012 at 12:22am | IP Logged

It is a very nice tool indeed and I'm going to use it while reading new texts.
However, one feature that it lacks for me at the moment (or I just haven't discovered how to cope with this yet) is linking several words together - that is, different verb, noun, etc. forms to their origin. For example: different forms of German adjective with endings: -e -er -er -en could be linked to their base form and they all would be updated simultaneously, rather than each one as another word.

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