The difficulty in this script is mostly in organizing the data properly;
there's not much that's inherently JS- or web-specific, so I'd think
your experience in Lua would transfer pretty well.
Of course, if you want to make it rather fancier with a settings UI,
that can be done too; that would take a good bit more work, but it'd
basically come down to using one of the existing settings UI frameworks
for Greasemonkey, which wouldn't be too bad.
I'd say go for it, it looks like pretty good.
On 2011-06-25 00:51, Harahune wrote:
I've had an idea for a FireFox addon or Greasemonkey script for quite
a while now. I've found a few things that do part of this, such as the
FoxReplace addon and the Replace Text On Webpages Greasemonkey script,
however these largely only support direct text->text replacements.
What I'd like to do is something that is much more intuitive for
language learners who wish to replace text to assist in memorizing
vocabulary, which would require some degree of scripting to follow
things such as noun gender rules and other grammar points that are
ignored by simple text->text replacement. For example, take Norwegian,
which has noun genders that modify the adjective before it.
green = grøn
car = (en) bil
house = (et) hus
With a small degree of scripting and RegEx use, a rule can be made to
follow proper Norwegian grammar and replace "green" with "grøn" if the
following word is "car", which will be replaced by "bil", or instead
using "grønt" if the following word is house, which would be replaced
with "hus".
Now obviously you can't script in all rules for all languages, so
basically what I'm asking about is a script like Replace Text On
Webpages with a few built in variables that can be called, such as
"previous word" and "next word". Something like this (it's not really
correct code, just an example).
replacements.adjectives = {
"green": "grøn","grønt",
};
replacements.malenouns = {
"car": "bil",
};
replacements.neutralnouns = {
"house": "hus",
};
if text to replace = anything in replacements.adjectives then
if string after text to replace = anything in replacements.malenouns
then
text to replace = replacement text, first entry
elseif string after text to replace = anything in
replacements.neutralnouns then
text to replace = replacement text, second entry
end
So, my main point is, how difficult would this be in a Greasemonkey
script? I have no experience with Javascript or Greasemonkey coding,
my only experience is with LUA.
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