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

On 12/24/2014 05:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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
WoW
where do you get an "easy" documentation file that has this type of 
search parameters and "coding"?



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