diosakhilleus/akhos-react

A tool for students and lovers of the Classical languages, Greek and Latin.

Akhos

A tool for students of Greek and Latin.

Hosted Page Link: https://akhos.net/

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Getting Started

To get started, load the page and type in your desired text in either Latin or Greek. Initial load time may take longer than expected due to loading built-in dictionary files.

If you don't know either language, here are a few example phrases for you to try out with copy and paste.

Greek:
    ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε μοῦσα
        The first four words of Homer's Odyssey, "Tell me of a man, Muse..."

Latin:
    arma virumque cano
        The first three words of Virgil's Aeneid, ""Of arms and the man I sing..."

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After Submit

You can hover over each word to see its morphology, and if you want a particular word to remain visible, simply click on it.

Warning!! If a long phrase is input, expect the phrase to take a while to show up and work properly.

Please enjoy, and I hope it's in some way helpful in your quest to learn and read the Classical Languages.

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Credits:

Lewis & Short JSON file compiled from the work of https://github.com/IohannesArnold 
Original Credit for XML dictionary goes to https://www.perseus.tufts.edu 

Wiktionary API used for obtaining 'Wiki Definition' information

LSJ JSON file obtained from https://github.com/perseids-project

Morphology APIs for Greek & Latin accessed through the Perseids Project: https://github.com/perseids-project

akhos-react's Issues

Input Punctuation

Remove Punctuation from input string

Headword Ordering

Maybe fix the order of the displayed content if a given form has multiple headwords. The last form given always seems to be the most relevant.

Issues with αὐτός

An input of αὐτός doesn't work for some reason. αὐτὴ works, but αὐτός does not. I think it's from incorrect parsing. The error message says ....pers is not defined. Probably have to change return data structure for this type of word.

Fix getWikiLatin w/ Regex

Currently still uses innerHTML as a way to clean the API return.

Word Types

Finish adding support for different word types in Greek & Latin!!

Display Morph on Submit

Have hover be persistent...

Multiword Display not working with Latin

On mouseover it still thinks that I'm looking for the greek information, which makes sense given that that's the only thing I've provided. Should be a relatively simple fix.

Fix code breaking when white space is included at the ends of words.

No bueno, because the average user will probably accidentally input extra white space.

XML Formatting

Fix issue where dataAsJson["TEI.2"].text.body.div0.entry.sense is an object instead of an array. Currently the code won't run to parse it because it's an obj.

Fix Dictionary Entries

Fix dictionary entry parsing for Perseus info.

Fetch Latin Perseus

Implement Perseus API for the Latin translations

Phrase won't appear if a single word doesn't work.

For instance, in Latin if you put "vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus" it won't appear because Lesbia doesn't work.

Perhaps just add a possibility for if it doesn't work? like just have a blank?

Remove Commas from input string

If user includes commas in input string, I need to remove them before splitting into either greekArr or latinArr.

Long phrase issue

When entering a multi-line phrase, it's hard to mouse over each word because the other words interfere!

Add Loading Spinner

For when a phrase needs to be loaded and will take a while.

Phrase Display Expansion

The phrase display section needs to expand if the phrase is very long.

Some words don't work that should

Many words that should work based on results from the morphology api still seem to throw exceptions.

Unknown Latin Issue

Weird Latin issue: if i type "ergo" it crashes. This didn't happen before, and DevTools says the problem is at src/components/Mult.js:5

Wiki Formatting Issues

Information back from wiki was weirdly formatted, so always came back with HTML tags intact that were sometimes hard to account for.

Firefox Scroll Bar

The scroll bar in Firefox is large and expands every time I hover over a word. It bothers me because the page should remain static.

Multiword Display not showing multiple entries

The multiword display is only showing the first possible headword of the given word. Not sure how long this fix would take.

Maybe need to modify how server responds to queries.

Issues with server response time. Could improve if all the words are sent in one payload? Look into this