Cleaned up improvements list and added some useful info to NOTES

NOTES

@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-github-page
 
 Note that the old 'Automatic Page Generator' has been deprecated: Github web UI->(repository)Settings->Automatic Page Generator (see https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-pages/)
 
+**Dictionaries and Formats**
+To see how many 'headwords' are in a dictionary count the number of lines in its .index file, e.g:
+wc -l wikt-deu-eng.index
+62824 wikt-deu-eng.index
+
+Dictionaries are stored under /usr/share/dictd
+
 **Packaging**
 To create Debian packages for a newly added language, e.g. French (ISO code fra):
 - Copy one of the existing stanzas in debian/control for both wikt-eng-fra and wikt-fra-eng

TODO.txt

@@ -1,21 +1,7 @@
 **Non-Program Improvements**
-- Create an Ubuntu PPA for the .deb files
-
-- upload packages to Debian project and to website. Sign packages with [email protected] gpg key (gpg currently defaults to old tkedwards key)
-
-**Bug Fix improvements**
-- Catch exceptions and print the data that was being processed at the time, e.g this happened while processing for Norwegian:
-  File "/home/tim/devel/wiktionarytodict/wiktionarytodict.py", line 46, in process
-TextElement
-    self.parseTranslations(content)
-  File "/home/tim/devel/wiktionarytodict/wiktionarytodict.py", line 67, in parseTr
-anslations
-    self.parseTranslationline(aline, currentMeaning)
-  File "/home/tim/devel/wiktionarytodict/wiktionarytodict.py", line 75, in parseTr
-anslationline
-    rawtranslation = aline.split(':')[2].lstrip()
-IndexError: list index out of range
+- upload packages to Debian project and to website. Sign packages with [email protected] gpg key
 
+**Improvements**
 - better formatting:
         * when going from a language that has noun genders such as Spanish back to English it should show the noun gender on its own line. Look at the dictionary format from trans-de-en e.g:
         Haus
@@ -29,8 +15,6 @@ IndexError: list index out of range
                 (a place for recreation)
                 parque (m)
 
-**New Features requiring Significant Change or Work**
-
 - deal with {{qualifier|someword}} properly
 
 - instead of just using wiktionary data bring in data from other dictionaries, e.g Freedict, or even other language Wiktionaries (e.g. fuse data from Spanish and English wiktionaries to make Eng<->Spa dictionary). See Quickdic Android app for an example
@@ -44,5 +28,6 @@ Examples of sub-languages are Nynorsk and Bokmål as the two alternate writing s
 
 - have wiktionarytodict create StartDict format files http://www.stardict.org/HowToCreateDictionary
 
+- implement a progress bar/display during creation, see python3-progressbar and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1001871/showing-progress-of-pythons-xml-parser-when-loading-a-huge-file