Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating a dictionary with libreoffice from a simple TXT-file

At 13:45 24/12/2014 -0700, Constantine Marberg wrote:
> This Terminology is unfortunately in simple text-files encoded with 
> UTF8 but with no TABs or similar as field-separators. In order to be 
> able to use this Terminology as a glossary or to convert it into a 
> TMX and then use it efficiently with our CAT-Software (OmegaT 
> mostly), it has to be in the following format:
>
> Language-A TAB Language-B
> or
> Language-A ; Language-B
>
> Does anyone of you know any way to achieve this in Libreoffice or 
> even any other editor? I was think of something like: Search for 
> German-language characters + space at the beginning of the 
> sentence/line and replace it with the same word + ";" or TAB

It won't be easy to search for characters in a particular language, 
but in all your examples the part you want separated from the 
remainder of the line is simply a single word, so you need just to 
search for the first space and replace it with a semi-colon or a tab character.

o Paste your material into a LibreOffice text (Writer) document.
o Put the cursor at the beginning of the text.
o Go to Edit | Find & Replace... (or press Ctrl+F).
o In the "Search for" box, enter:
([^ ]*) (.*)
- that's 
leftparenthesis-leftbracket-circumflex-space-rightbracket-asterisk-rightparenthesis-space-leftparenthesis-dot-asterisk-rightparenthesis.
o In the "Replace with" box, enter either:
$1;$2 or $1\t$2
- that's dollar-one-semicolon-dollar-two or 
dollar-one-backslash-lowercasetee-dollar-two (as preferred).
o Click More Options.
o Ensure "Regular expressions" is ticked.
o Click Replace All.

Don't do this more than once, or this process will then replace the 
second occurrences of spaces.

You can copy and paste the resulting material wherever you want it to 
go, or you can use File | Save As... and select a plain text format 
for "Save as type".

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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