README.md

Tibetan-English translator for CLI

About

The Hibet translates with all dictionaries from tibetan-dictionary project. It consume both Wylie transliteration and tibetan script from input.

Features

1. Hibet uses about 40 dictionaries to translate Tibetan words to English or Tibetan.
2. If translations have Tibetan texts it printed as wylie.

Installation

1. Install stack

2. Install hibet

    git clone https://github.com/willbasky/hibet.git
   
    cd ./hibet
   
    stack install hibet
   

or

cabal new-install exe:hibet --overwrite-policy=always

Usage video

Help commands:

$ hibet -h

Hibet is command line translator from Tibet to English language.

Usage: hibet [-v|--version] [[-s|--select DICT_ID] | COMMAND]

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -v,--version             Show Hibet's version
  -s,--select DICT_ID      Select id of dictionary

Available commands:
  shell                    Start the translate shell
  om                       Print Om to a terminal
  show                     Show names or meta of dictionaries
  debug                    Debug hibet

$ hibet show -h

Usage: hibet show COMMAND
  Show names or meta of dictionaries

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text

Available commands:
  names                    Show dictionary titles
  meta                     Show dictionary descriptions

$ hibet shell -h

Usage: hibet shell [-s|--select DICT_ID]
  Start the translate shell

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -s,--select DICT_ID      Select id of dictionary

Input hibet shell in terminal. And then write your query using Wylie (mo) or Tibet script (མོ་):

$ hibet shell -s{7,16}
Which a tibetan word to translate?
> mo

མོ

7. Rangjung Yeshe
  the girl
  lady, female, woman. 2) divination, prophecy
  1) auspicious, mo divination/ prophesy [R]; 2) feminine particle, female,
  woman, she [R]; 3) terminative after MA; 4) noun forming particle [R]; 5)
  is [don ci mo: what is the meaning]

16. Ives Waldo
  1) auspicious, mo divination [mo rgyag mkhan gyis mo ma btab gong du bden
  pa bdar khul gyis mi la mgo skor gtong ba; 2) femine showing particle
  [bya mo]; 3) terminative after MA; 4) noun forming particle [ring mo,
  chen mo,//ltad mo,//nub mo]. 1) auspicious, mo divination/ prophesy [R];
  2) feminine particle, female, woman, she [R]; 3) terminative after MA; 4)
  noun forming particle [R]; 5) is [don ci mo: what is the meaning]. 1)
  auspicious, mo divination/ prophesy; 2) feminine particle, female, woman,
  she; 3) terminative after MA; 4) noun forming particle; 5) is

To quit, just input:

:q

To get queries of the session, input:

:h

or use arrows of keyboard.

Contribution

Contributions are welcoming!