Hi,
Thomas Ronayne wrote:
Andy Pepperdine wrote:
On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:14, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
I have a document that uses "smart quotes." I have a concordance file
(plain text) that I cannot force to also use smart quotes, so most of
what I want in an index is not found; e.g., O'Neil, Barry's, etc.
...
Other than going back to "dumb quotes" in my document, is there any way
to prepare a concordance file that OpenOffice 2.0.2 will be able to use?
Thing is, I have 1,913 index entries -- believe me, I don't want to
build the bloody damn thing manually. I also assume that I don't know
what I'm doing (which is not unusual), and there must be some magic
trick I've missed somewhere or other -- I've tried "escaping" the
characters in the concordance file (nope, no joy there).
My concordance file has entries like this:
Barry’s Great Island;Barry’s Great Island;;;0;0
Barry’s Great Island;Barry’s Great Island;;;0;0
D’Laughtane;D’Laughtane;;;0;0
As far as I can see, those single quotes are U-2019 and at this point I
am at a complete loss about what to do to get OOo to deal with them and
build the index entries.
Any further insight would be most appreciated.
the single quote character in Barry’s is a different character than
the one in I'm or I've.
I copied your mail to a Writer doc (currently using the Windows
StarOffice 8 version which should be the same as OOo 2.0.3)
I opened the "New Concordance file" editor from the Insert Indexes ...
tab page.
I copied the words with the ' or ´ inside to the first two text boxes
within that editor.
I generated the alphabetical index.
It works without errors.
I inspected the generated concordance file using even a hex editor,
and I found nothing obscure or unexpected.
Kind regards
Uwe
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