Request to add transliterations as synonyms for kindle mobi dict

[anuruddhabhikku]

Problem Statement

Currently, the provided .mobi file works well as dict in kindle. But the lookup only works with romanized pali script.

So long tap on अस्सोसि fails, but assosi works. Similar issue for pali when it is in sinhala/burmese/thai script

Proposed Solution

It is possible to add synonyms when building the dict. The synonym file tells the kindle to show the meaning for assosi even when the user taps on अस्सोसि.

User Value

Its a lot easier to read pali in devnagri for hindi speakers, simialarly in sinhala script for sinhala speakers. But right now, this excellent dict is unusable when reading suttas on kindle in devnagri-script pali or sinhala-script pali

Implementation Ideas (optional)

When building the dict the synonym could be added as a new orth entry. This is to be done by the kindle exported python script

The transliterations can be generated via aksharmula or similar python libraries (pre-debugged)

[bdhrs]

@anuruddhabhikku Yes, it's possible. Just need to check a few things

• how much does it add to the file size?
• do Roman and Devanagari scripts work together side-by-side ?
• or do they need to be in different files with different language codes?

Can you help with testing?

[anuruddhabhikku]

There is an alternative approach if file size bloat becomes a problem.

The headwords-script can be made an option to be passed to the python kindle exporter. Then someone who wants to generate a kindle.mobi dict with devnagri/sinhala/thai-script pali headwords could fork the repo, and change the github actions yaml generator to
python kindle_exporter.py --script <script_name>

Can you help with testing?

Yes Bhante. I can help with testing on kindle