Posts made by Oleg Lapchynskyi

@river Congrats on the new release! The themes are nice, and I think they will cater to the tastes of the majority of users. Regarding the font family, I like "Source Serif," the one that Reader uses by default. Font choice is highly subjective. All reading tools offer options for font family, font size, and paragraph width. These settings are basic and considered standard.

cheers!

@river Hello!

I tried your plugin. Great stuff. Certainly, there are several features to add to make the pluging full-fledged. The direction is right!
I use reader mode whenever there are more than 3 minutes read. Mostly as a distraction free tool.
I never use dark mode. I prefer yellow-shaded paper-like background. So the option of picking the backgound color is a must for me. As well as changing the font family, the size of the font and width of the paragraph. Just like any reader application, Kindle and alike.

Readerwise.io settings is lacking only background color picker:

@river great stuff. Looking forward to test it

{
    "dictName": "Google Books Ngram",
    "windowUrl": "https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=<word>&year_start=1800&corpus=en&case_insensitive=false"
}

@river Yes, it's Edge. On MacBook Pro, MacOS Sonoma 14.7.1

@river it is not the case for me.

your plugin and side panel side by side

my browser theme is light

my OS theme is light

my default OS theme is dark, and the browser's theme is light. it looks the same

I switched my default OS dark theme to light, closed the browser, reopened the browser and it is the same

@river ?

@river

"got it in the bag" is not a sentence; it is a multi-word lexeme (bigger than word, less than sentence), evidently, an idiom
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/be-in-the-bag
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-got-it-in-the-bag-mean

I suggest expanding the inclusion limit from "three words" to "three content words" or even to "four content words"

content words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
as the content words magnitude is hundreds of thousands, it is practical to go with the exclusion rule

exclude from the lexeme function words
Preposition
Conjunction
Determiner
Auxiliary Verb
Particle

I estimate the enumeration of function words to be under a hundred, maybe two hundred.

after the exclusion of function words, the lexeme will be reduced to only content words (in our case - "got bag"; surely within your limit).
If the number of words is less than 4 (or 5) it is highly likely that we have a phrase at hand. Worthwhile of learning, hence storing in history.

{
    "dictName": "Idioms & Phrases @ TheFreeDictionary",
    "windowUrl": "https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/<word>"
}

{
    "dictName": "Sentencedict",
    "windowUrl": "https://sentencedict.com/<word>.html"
}

I tested several extensions of "Reader View" category, and any of the tested plugins renders Dictionariez incapable of recognizing the selected text.
readline https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/readline/lgooahonadmfehgfgjdeffmhfndpklpa
reader-view https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/reader-view/lpmbefndcmjoaepdpgmoonafikcalmnf
easyview-reader-view https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/easyview-reader-view/nliopidpecelaedknfeanmkanoabfahi

All tested plugins, obviously, rely on a same shared component.

They include identical toolbar and notifications.

Is there some setting I should change?

1. open https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-got-it-in-the-bag-mean
2. select "got it in the bag" in the first sentence
3. invoke Dictionariez
4. besides Urban Dictionary no other default dictionary includes "got it in the bag"
5. check out your history - no "got it in the bag" in the history.

WHY?

@river thank you. it worked.

Is it possible to reorder the dictionaries in the plugin's settings to elevate the most used dictionaries to the top of the list?

Is SidePal meant to be Dark-Theme only (black background)?

{
    "dictName": "Wordsense",
    "windowUrl": "https://www.wordsense.eu/index.php?status=search&submit=suchen&query=<word>"
}