Saturday, January 23, 2021

From Buddhadust.net, a new freshly proof read digital single file html PTS Pali English Dictionary

 In a private email to me, the volunteer who did this proof reading job wrote:

A good dictionary and a pristine Pali is what should have been done by
all of us a long time ago! It's like: Now we can begin.

Took me six months almost to the day working from about 3:00 AM to about
4:00 PM every day. (with breaks, of course).


Sadhu, sadhu. Many thanks for this meritorious contribution!

Using a rough estimate of 8 hrs a day proofreading for 6 months, that about 1500 hours of labor!


Reprinting his announcement from his blog:

Oblog: [O.1.12.21] Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:50 AM

PED

Digital Pali Text Society's Pali English Dictionary upgrade update.

The .html version is now available.

The Upgrade version of the .htm edition of the PTS PED:
ped.htm almost 6MB!
ped.zip 2.2MB

The Upgrade version of the .txt edition of the PTS PED:
ped.utf8.txt 5.5MB!
ped.utf8.zip 2.2MB
Zipped text file in unicode utf-8 with PC line endings.

This work is based on a scanned version of an early reprint of an early edition of The Pali Text Society's Pali English Dictionary revised in accordance with the 2015 "Reprint with corrections" by K.R. Norman, William Pruitt and Peter Jackson.

Further details on this edition are to be found at the beginning of the file.

It is not being claimed that this edition is error-free or all-encompassing. What it is at this time is the most error-free and encompassing of the on-line Pali Dictionaries.

Although it is available for viewing and use on this site, due to the size of the file, on-line use is not very practical. It is intended for downloading to your desktop and use from there.

1. Download the .zip file (.txt or .htm according to your preference) and expand.
2. Create a desktop shortcut to the file.
3. Copy and save the PED icon above.
4. Change the icon for the shortcut to the PED icon.


Any volunteers want to convert sutta references from PTS book and page sutta numbering to modern numbering (such as suttacentral.net uses)?

I've always wanted an edition of the PED that had modern sutta numbers. 

Example: Instead of A II 163; IV 238,

Convert to AN 2.163 (or whatever the actual number is); AN 4.238.

I have a script that would then convert AN 2.163 to AN 2.163  (A hyperlink that jumps directly to the sutta on lucid24.org).

I have this page with mappings between modern numbering and PTS page #:

pts page links to modern pali suttas  


Obviously without paying someone I don't think this would ever happen for the entire dictionary, but if people who use the dictionary often, would take ownership of a few words you care about, and fix the references for that and post it on my forum, gradually we can get there.



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