[RNLD] regex for formatting dictionaries

[Steven Bird]

Margaret,

Note that the NLTK book addresses this question, if you don't mind writing
Python code:

http://nltk.org/book/ch11.html#using-elementtree-for-accessing-toolbox-data
http://nltk.org/book/ch11.html#working-with-toolbox-data

-Steven

On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 10:39, Margaret Carew <
margaret.carew at batchelor.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I’m looking for some assistance with regular expressions to use in
> formatting a 'back slash’ dictionary file to get it ready for a desktop
> publisher.
> I am using the program Nisus to do various search and replace functions.
> I also want to select entries on the basis of certain fields that they
> contain. For example, most entries have at least one \sd field. I would
> like to select a copy all of the entries of a certain \sd field from the
> whole set of entries.
> I know there are linguists out there who have used Nisus to format
> dictionaries, so if anyone has regex cheat sheets they are willing to share
> that would be most helpful.
>
> Thanks, Margaret
>
> ___________________________
>
> Dr Margaret Carew
>
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