This brings the slick, contemporary CSS styling of Webster's 1913 Dictionary for macOS to the slob format, for use with dictionary apps such as Aard2.
Download webster1913.slob
and follow the instructions of your dictionary app of choice to use it. (For Aard2, see these brief instructions.)
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary:
A book where you can enter “sport” and end up with “a diversion of the field” — this is in fact the opposite of what I’d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that’s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare. No wonder McPhee wrote with it by his side. No wonder he looked up words he knew, versus words he didn’t, in a ratio of “at least ninety-nine to one.”
webster1913.slob
was created from the macOS dictionary supplied in https://github.com/cmod/websters-1913 using pyglossary
. Before the conversion, however, Info.plist
in the source dictionary was edited so that once converted, the dictionary's display name in the app was appropriate (the default was something like com.apple.Webster.Webster
).