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 <marber...@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. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Creating-a-dictionary-with-libreoffice-from-a-simple-TXT-file-tp4133988p4134001.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
