Extracting or Printing a Subset of the Dictionary/Termbase

“example sentence” or a “combination”, are being extracted. Out of the 6,147 lemmas in the database, this condition is fulfilled for only 46 of them, as shown at the top of the Preview Area.

Figure 19: Combining the “Reveal” and “Hide” filters under “Filter (F5)” to extract a section from a bilingual Swahili – English dictionary [Data online at: http://africanlanguages.com/swahili/]

Extracting or Printing a Subset of the Dictionary/Termbase

The filter may be used to select and export only a subset of the dictionary or termbase. When you export your data (whether to RTF, HTML or XML format), the “Export options” dialog includes an option to “Use filters”. Selecting this option will cause the current filter to be applied to the output. As an example, one could choose to export only the lemmas in a dictionary that have been marked with a “linguistics” label, effectively generating a linguistics lexicon or terminology list from the main dictionary database. By combining the filter with the use of multiple sets of styles, which may further hide or reveal different elements or attributes, multiple dictionaries can effectively be generated from a single dictionary database. See the chapter on the Styles System for more information.