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

On 25-12-2014 17:55, Constantine wrote:
> On 24-12-2014 21:45, Constantine wrote:
>
> After a lot of responses how to do this in Writer,
> a shortnote how to do this in Calc..... ;-)
>
> Open the textfile, when the 'Text import' wizzard is show do:
> 1) Select characterset 'Unicode (UTF-8)'
> 2) Separater options: 'separated by', check 'Tab' and 'Space', other
> options should not be checked.
> 3) at 'Text delimiter' type a space
> 4) klik 'OK'
>
> 5) Insert a column B, and fill it with a semi-colon ';'
>
> 6) Klik save-as, type a name, and check 'Edit filter settings'
> 7) The Export Text file' wizard should be shown.
> 8) Character set: 'Unicode (UTF-8)'
> 9) Field delimiter: space ' '
> 10) Text delimiter: <empty> ''
> 11) checkboxes: only leave 'Save cell content as shown' checked.....
>
>
> Hi Luuk,
>
> I am afraid this doesn't work. I thought of it myself and also tried it at
> the beginning of my work.
> As I said, Terms consist of 2-5 words, so when using space as separator
> there is no way to insert a column (especially B) for the semicolon. Besides
> definitions are sometimes so long with so many spaces, that calc reports not
> being able to create enough columns for the whole content.

The fact that Terms consist of 2-5 words is not in your first post....

i just found it in your post from 'Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:11:38 -0700 
(MST), where you say that this is 'not important'....
> > Indeed there where terms with two words or something like this:
> > 
> > a.D. (außer Dienst) εκτός υπηρεσίας, εν αποστρατεία
> >
> > where "(außer Dienst)" belongs to "a.D."
> > Which is not bad because "(außer Dienst)" in the second field is more
> > usefull to me (us).
> >
> > For the fewer cases with two or more german words at the beginning, well, I
> > think we will survive that and be able to correct it manually.



> The correct and professional way is what Brian suggested and I was looking
> for.
> Now I can use these expressions in the future too because the need for their
> usage occurs very often in mine kind of work.

The correct, and professional way is certainly NOT to store these thing 
in a DOC, a database would be far more suited.

A slight variation of my approach will also work in Calc. Because you 
seem not interested in this solution, i will not share it here.



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