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Finding Just Latin Words
Hi How can find just Latin words (with several font types) in a document which includes complex scripts too? |
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You could use a wildcard Find, with the 'Find' character range limited to the desired characters. For example:
Find = <[A-Za-z]{1,}> will find any whole word containing only characters from the standard Latin alphabet.
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Are you talking about Latin language or Latin alphabet?
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If you mean Latin language then you are likely "out of luck" as the say.
So many Latin words have found their way into English, after all. You'd need to find a complete searchable Latin lexicon. Then compare every word in your document with every word in the lexicon. Probably quicker to do it manually... |
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Not so. If the text really is in the Latin language, it should have the proofing language set to that, in which case the task is quite straightforward.
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Thanks macropod. I wasn't aware of that, learn something every now and then eh..
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macropod
I want to search and select all Latin words or phrases which are finished by "," in an Arabic-English document, but totally not separately. For example the results of searching become something like this: Above range Color, Abnormal, Active topology, and so... How can do this? |
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You might try using a wildcard Find, where:
Find = [!,]@,
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It does not work macropod.
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It does for me. In what way do you say it doesn't work?
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macropod
I can search for example 5 character words via <[A-Za-z]{5}> and 7 character words via <[A-Za-z]{7}>, but <[A-Za-z]{1,}> (for using all English words) does not work at all. What is the problem? Thank you. |
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Works for me. As does <[A-Za-z]@>
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This wildcard works. Thank you.
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