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

Just a thought from what I remember of the previous posts, but will
Tom's idea of searching for the left parenthesis instead of the first
space not work?


Paul



On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:06:31 -0700 (MST)
Constantine <marberg77@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> as you say, I will need to use base and I already started reading the
> docs and experimenting with the form creation.
>
> But I would also like to report on my progress.
> I took all the files containing German-Greek terms and pasted them in
> a single text-file, then using the linux editor pluma for various
> corrections (I am more comfortable there) I prepared it for the final
> phase, which of course was applying your instructions.
> Finally I opened the file in calc and manually corrected the entries
> where the German term had 2 or more words. Fortunately they weren't
> too many. Then I filtered all the duplicates.
> The result is a perfect glossary for OmegaT with, believe it or 31.400
> unique entries.
>
> Now I started the same procedure for the Greek-German files but...
> These files contain too many greek terms consisting of 2, 3, 4 and
> even 5 words. Too many to deal with manually.
>
> What would you say? Is there any possible way to do the job with an
> expression like the one you gave me?
> Can you think of anything? Does it not help that they are greek
> characters at the beginning of the line?
> As far as I know in writer one can search for language, then perhaps
> also for characters of a certain non latin language.
> Combining this with an expression like the one before, it would
> probably work.
>
> I am not asking you to do the work for me, but I sincerely tried
> everything I could and ready as much as possible and still could come
> up with anything. I will not give up trying and reading, but since
> you obviously have much more knowledge of the matter as well as
> experience, you could save me a lot of time but also from possible
> errors in the resulting file.
>
>
>
>
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