Colin J. Williams wrote:
I'm seeking advice on the creation of a concordance file from an .odt file.
Is there any tool to automate this process, preferable one which
provides a GUI tool to manually cleanse the list?
It is easy to create a list of words but how does one convert this to an
.sdi file? Once one has the right format, there appears to a tool in
Writer to massage this file.
The doc
[http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/ToC_index_biblio.pdf]
has:
Concordance file. This enables a set listing of words to be imported
(select using
the File button and then used within the index. The concordance file
has a special
file format; for further information, refer to Help > Contents.
I didn't find the Help very helpful.
Colin,
If I understand you correctly, you have a list of words in a .odt
file, and you want to turn that file into a concordance (.sdi)
file and then manage the .sdi file using a tool within Writer. Is
that correct? If so, here's what I did: I couldn't make Writer
(on WinXP) save to a filename with the extension .sdi, so I saved
it as .txt and then went into Windows Explorer and renamed the
extension to .sdi.
Then when I followed the instructions in the Help for opening the
.sdi, it opened in the "Edit Concordance File" window. Or I could
open it directly in OOo just like a .odt file.
I did find that one step was missing or unclear in the Help (at
least, the instructions didn't exactly match what was happening
in OOo1.9.122). The Help says, as step 4 under "To access the
Edit Concordance File dialog":
"Click the File button, and then choose New or Edit."
In fact, the choices at that point were New or Open. I chose Open
and got an ordinary Open dialog, where I selected the .sdi file I
had created, and clicked Open.
After that, the choices on the Insert Index/Table dialog for
Concordance file "File" button were Open, New and Edit. When I
clicked Edit, the .sdi file opened in the "Edit Concordance File"
window.
Does this help? Or have I misunderstood your question? BTW, I
notice that the link you gave is the one for the OOo1.1.X
chapter; the chapter for OOo2.0 is here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0212WG-CreatingTablesOfContentsIndexesAndBibilographies.pdf
But the new chapter doesn't have much more information. I'll make
a note to consider adding a bit more information when we update
the chapter (and I should update the V1 chapter too).
Cheers, Jean
