ORDBOK Core

Core system to create a dictionary out of Markdown files.

How to use

The following example shows a Markdown source file named english.md:

English
=======

Translation: English ; the English

Grammar:     Noun ; Neuter

New Norwegian
=============

Translation: engelsk ; engelsken

Grammar:     Noun ; Masculine

The following example takes a Markdown source folder to build dictionary files into a ./build/dictionary folder:

$ npx ordbok-assembler ./markdown ./build/dictionary

The following TypeScript code uses the dictionary files to find a translation:

import { Dictionary, Utilities } from `@ordbok/core`;

const myDictionary = new Dictionary('build/dictionary');

const theEntry = myDictionary.loadEntry('English');

console.log(theEntry[Utilities.getKey('New Norwegian')].translation); // = engelsk, engelsken
console.log(theEntry[Utilities.getKey('New Norwegian')].grammar); // = Noun, Masculine

Plugins

Create a ordbok.json in your project to register custom plugins for the assembling process. You can specify node modules and folders:

{
    "plugins": [
        "@ordbok/index-plugin",
        "../tools/custom-plugin"
    ]
}

If you like to create a custom plugin yourself, create a folder or package with a ordbok-plugin.js file somewhere inside. Here is how the corresponding TypeScript file looks like:

const { IMarkdownPage, IPlugin, Markdown } = require('@ordbok/core/internals');

export const ordbokPlugin: IPlugin = {
    onAssembling: (sourceFolder: string, targetFolder: string) => {},
    onReadFile: (sourceFile: string, markdown: Markdown) => {},
    onWriteFile: (targetFile: string, markdownPage: IMarkdownPage) => {},
    onAssembled: () => {}
};