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

The question is what type of dictionary you really want?

A spell checking type for the terms
or
something that shows "Latin / English / German" character set to the 
Greek character set term including the definition when available.

That really makes a huge difference.

To make a searchable dictionary for use within LibreOffice may be difficult.

Also, how many terms to you have?  hundreds, thousands?  That may also 
effect what can be done easily.

I use to do spacing alignments to massive text files using C++ and other 
programming languages for use with text input for various documents and 
word, term, processing.  But it may not be easily done withing a office 
package.


On 12/24/2014 03:45 PM, Constantine wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new here and I hope someone can help me.
>
> I am a translator and my colleagues and I use CAT-software with TMX-files,
> glossaries in simple text-files which are in UTF8 encoding and TAB-separated
> as well as other tools of course.
>
> Over the years, some of us collected a huge amount of Terminology (with it's
> definitions) from each other and various other sources.
> 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
>
> I 'll show you an example of our files to better understand my problem.
> I will use a German-Greek terminology example, because I believe the
> different languages encodings will make it easier to achieve our goal:
>
> Abbrucharbeiten (πληθ.) εργασίες κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchkosten (πληθ.) δαπάνες κατεδάφισης
> abbruchreif ετοιμόρροπος, κατεδαφιστέος, das Haus ist ~ το σπίτι είναι
> ετοιμόρροπο
> Abbruchsbewilligung (θηλ.) άδεια κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchunternehmen (ουδ.) εταιρεία κατεδάφισης
> abbuchen χρεώνω, Gebühren vom Konto ~ τα τέλη χρεώνονται στον τραπεζικό
> λογαριασμό
>
> As a minimum requirement for our goal, it should look like this:
>
> Abbrucharbeiten;(πληθ.) εργασίες κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchkosten;(πληθ.) δαπάνες κατεδάφισης
> abbruchreif;ετοιμόρροπος, κατεδαφιστέος, das Haus ist ~ το σπίτι είναι
> ετοιμόρροπο
> Abbruchsbewilligung;(θηλ.) άδεια κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchunternehmen;(ουδ.) εταιρεία κατεδάφισης
> abbuchen;χρεώνω, Gebühren vom Konto ~ τα τέλη χρεώνονται στον τραπεζικό
> λογαριασμό
>
> or
>
> Abbrucharbeiten (πληθ.) εργασίες κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchkosten   (πληθ.) δαπάνες κατεδάφισης
> abbruchreif     ετοιμόρροπος, κατεδαφιστέος, das Haus ist ~ το σπίτι είναι
> ετοιμόρροπο
> Abbruchsbewilligung     (θηλ.) άδεια κατεδάφισης
> Abbruchunternehmen      (ουδ.) εταιρεία κατεδάφισης
> abbuchen        χρεώνω, Gebühren vom Konto ~ τα τέλη χρεώνονται στον τραπεζικό
> λογαριασμό
>
> (where the space is a TAB)
>
> 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
>
> I and my colleagues would be most grateful if any of you could provide a
> simple solution or suggestion.
>
> I thank you all in advance for your help and interest.
>
> Constantine
>
>
>
>
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