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Related: anyone on MacOS, try to use the dictionaries built into the OS. They are extremely high quality and have surpassed sources I've seen elsewhere. Even fo
by rtpg 7y ago
Related: anyone on MacOS, try to use the dictionaries built into the OS. They are extremely high quality and have surpassed sources I've seen elsewhere. Even for words in my native language I'll pick up a lot of interesting details and synonyms. And on top of that they have a lot of language-to-language dictionaries for anyone who deals with foreign languages a lot.
It's actually on my short list of things that make me want to stick to MacOS desppite everything
- jonnycomputer 7y agoI didn't even know there was one. I thank you for that. Is there an API that I can hook into (I'm thinking emacs here). Maybe a Swift script calling this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/1446842-dcscopytextdefinition https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/14468...
- rtpg 7y agohttps://josephg.com/blog/reverse-engineering-apple-dictionaries/ https://josephg.com/blog/reverse-engineering-apple-dictionar... seems like there's someone who outright reverse engineered the format as well. Normally I would recommend going for something via Applescript but it seems like Dictionary.app doesn't expose anything via Applescript (though it totally should)
- auxbuss 7y agoI presume there must be, since I use Scrivener and have a keyboard shortcut set-up for "Look Up in Dictionary and Thesaurus". Simply put the cursor within a word, type the shortcut, dictionary appears (then cmd+2 for thesaurus, if necessary).