Word lookups now come from DreamDict's dict.db for every pair but Chinese —
opened read-only beside petal.db, no service, nothing over the VPN, because a
hover gloss has to answer in milliseconds.
`Provider` is the two questions the popover and the tooltip already asked, so
the embedded *Lexicon satisfies it with no changes at all; Set.For(lang) is the
single place the choice between them is made. The prerequisite in the dreamdict
repo turned out to be two things, not one: the module path was unfetchable
*and* the query layer sat in internal/, which no other module may import
whatever the module is called. Both fixed upstream.
The plan's central assumption did not survive the data. It mapped
Gloss ← Translate(word, "en", L1) one-to-one; against the real 452 MB database
that table answers for 17% of the 2,000 commonest English words into pt-PT.
Wiktionary's translation sections are thin in that direction — "ephemeral",
"think" and "quickly" have no en→pt-PT row at all. Shared WordNet synsets
answer for 61%, so DreamDict gained Equivalents() and Petal glosses through it.
Ordering those was wrong in an instructive way too: sorting by frequency
glosses "think" as lembrar, "remember", because lembrar is the commoner
Portuguese word even though pensar shares six of think's synsets to lembrar's
one. Counting sense agreement first asks the right question.
The same measurement is why zh stays on ECDICT: DreamDict reaches a Chinese
gloss for 53% of those words, ECDICT for nearly all of them. The plan said
converge only if quality holds. It didn't, so nothing converged.
Two decisions about failure worth keeping. A missing dict.db is not an error —
a laptop checkout has never had one — but a present-and-never-imported one is,
because that is a half-finished deploy. And a pt-PT writer with no dictionary
falls back to the embedded datasets with the gloss suppressed, keeping
definitions, synonyms and phonetics rather than blanking the popover: an empty
field reads as "not found", the wrong language reads as broken.
The new fields surface as an etymology line and a three-band chip. Three, not
five: the difficulty score separates "everyday" from "you'll have to explain
this" but cannot rank obfuscate against serendipity, and a finer scale would be
a confident-looking lie. An unscored word gets no chip.
Writing the tests found two bugs first — trimEtymology sliced by byte, which
would have emitted invalid UTF-8 for exactly the Greek and Latin etymologies
the feature exists for, and its ellipsis path overran its own cap.
go build/vet/test, tsc, vite, vitest 96/96 clean; live smoke against the real
dict.db with one instance flipped from zh to pt-PT mid-run.
Not deployed: go.mod still replaces github.com/prosolis/dreamdict with
../dreamdict, so the Docker build needs the two upstream commits pushed and the
replace dropped. The deployed dict.db also predates DreamDict's Spanish data.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
Every `中文 · English` string moves out of ~29 components into
web/src/i18n: one Pack type, a verbatim zh pack, and two ways to read
it — usePack() for components, pack() for the modules that build a line
when something happens rather than when something renders.
Anything with a value in it is a function on the pack rather than a
template at the call site, English pluralisation included: word order
isn't universal, and a pack author has to be able to move the number.
The roster constants (tones, rewrite styles, export formats, companions)
keep only value + emoji, so a label can't drift from its key.
On the server, internal/llm/lang.go replaces "Simplified Chinese" in the
three prompts that actually name her language. pt-PT is spelled
"European Portuguese (pt-PT, never Brazilian Portuguese)" in the prompt
itself, and each Lang carries her word for "why" so the tutor prompt
still recognises the question when she asks it her way.
pair_lang reaches the model through the row-scoped query each handler
already ran — the one that proves she owns the document — rather than a
second lookup that could disagree with it.
Also records Phase 18's deploy: migration 0011 rehearsed against a copy
of the live VPS database, then applied for real.
Phase 12 — collocation coach: a third suggestion family for gentle
"natives usually say…" hints on non-native word pairings, reusing the
existing runPass/pendingScope/rail machinery.
- llm/collocation.go (RunCollocation, 25s floor, reuses ParseCheckpoint)
+ collocationSystemPrompt/CollocationMessages (warm, Mandarin gloss,
defers grammar/spelling to the grammar family)
- migration 0005 rebuilds the suggestions table to extend the type CHECK
(SQLite can't ALTER a CHECK)
- collocationScope + CollocationLimit + POST /{id}/collocation
- fix: grammarScope was `type != 'voice'` and would wipe the new
collocation flags; now `type NOT IN ('voice','collocation')`
- frontend: --color-blossom, "Make it sound natural 🌸" pill,
collocating/runCollocation in useCheckpoint, StatusBar dot
Phase 13 — vocabulary garden: capture looked-up words and surface them
for gentle spaced repetition.
- new internal/vocab package: migration 0006 (vocab_words, SM-2-lite
columns, doc_id ON DELETE SET NULL, UNIQUE(user_id,word)),
scheduler.go (Leitner ladder 1/3/7/16/35 then geometric; gentle
"again", no streak-shaming), handlers (capture-upsert/list/due/
review/delete, owner-scoped, SQLite-side datetime math)
- auto-capture on word lookup (dictionary-known words only, captures
the surrounding sentence + doc_id) + 🤍/💚 toggle on WordCard
- GardenPanel: blossom grid (bloom by reps), flashcard review (sentence
blanked, flip, again/good/easy, recognition↔production), sleepy-kitten
footer; opened from a global 🌷 header button
Tests: TestCollocationPassCoexists, vocab scheduler + handlers, db CHECK
extended. go build/vet/test + tsc + vite + vitest (51/51) clean;
migration verified against a copy of the live DB; live backend smoke
walked the full vocab lifecycle + the warm-502 collocation path.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
Writer power-ups (Phase 11), plus the selection-bubble vs copy/paste fix.
- Find & Replace (Ctrl/Cmd+F): SearchHighlight decoration extension +
FindReplace bar (match-case, replace-all back-to-front, scroll without
popping the selection bubble).
- Read-aloud (Web Speech, offline) on the word card and selection bubble.
- Keyboard/touch access to the ESL helpers: Ctrl/Cmd+D look up word at caret,
Ctrl/Cmd+J rewrite selection, touch long-press lookup. Refactored the
right-click handler into a shared openWordLookup(pos).
- Whole-corpus backup: GET /api/docs/export-all zips every doc (md/docx),
de-dupes filenames, dated name; sidebar download links. TestExportAll.
- Smart typography input rules (curly quotes/em-dash/ellipsis), ASCII-only so
CJK is untouched.
- Duplicate doc, sidebar sort (Recent/Title/Longest), toolbar outline popover.
- English phonetic (chosen over pinyin for an English learner): ECDICT-built
phonetic.json.gz (46,579 words) + Result.Phonetic + WordCard IPA line;
scripts/build_phonetic.py (full build + --seed fallback).
- Selection bubble no longer blocks copy/paste: deferred to pointer-up and made
click-through except on its buttons.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
Inline Chinese gloss (offline) and a "say it more naturally" / tone-rewrite,
the two ESL features for the Mandarin-speaking writer.
Gloss: embedded English→Chinese dictionary (gloss.json.gz, 57k common words
built from ECDICT via scripts/build_gloss.py). lexicon gains Gloss()/Result.Gloss
and a lightweight GET /api/gloss/{word}; the right-click WordCard leads with the
中文; GlossTip shows it on a 350ms hover (reuses wordAt, so CJK is never glossed).
Offline + instant, works with the LLM down.
Rewrite: selecting text pops a SelectionBubble (✨更自然 + the tone vocabulary);
picking a style calls POST /api/docs/:id/rewrite (llm.RunRewrite, stateless,
owner-scoped) and shows a RewritePreview (original→rewrite, accept/cancel/retry).
Accept applies it in-editor.
Tests added in lexicon and suggestions. go build/vet/test, tsc, vite all clean;
live smoke vs a fake vLLM verified gloss + rewrite + 400/404/502 paths.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
Four enhancements to make the editor fit real school usage:
- Per-document tone (academic/professional/casual/humorous/creative/
persuasive/general): new documents.tone column (migration 0002), threaded
through the docs API, a bilingual ToneSelect dropdown on the title row, and
injected into the grammar-checkpoint LLM prompt so advice fits the register.
The voice pass stays tone-agnostic.
- Right-click word lookup: a new offline `lexicon` package serves definitions
(Wordset, modern ESL-friendly glosses) and synonyms (WordNet synsets first,
then frequency+stopword-ranked Moby for breadth) from gzipped embedded data,
behind /api/word/{word} with light morphology. The WordCard popover shows the
definition and tappable synonym pills that swap the word in place.
- Expanded writing stats: clicking the word count opens a StatsPanel with page
count, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, average word length, word variety,
and Flesch-Kincaid reading level — all computed client-side.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
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