umiak Groupie Poland Joined 4511 days ago 51 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Polish*
| Message 1 of 7 04 August 2013 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
Hello,
I'm compiling materials for in Russian L-R. All of the books I've gathered so far don't use the letter 'ё', nothing unusual -- Russians tend to use 'e' instead of 'ё'. However, for me, a Russian learner, it would be better to have it in the texts, at least at the very beginning. Does anyone know if there is free software out there that I could use to replace the 'e' with 'ё' in the texts (these are Russian e-books in Microsoft Word 2003)?
Edited by umiak on 06 August 2013 at 11:57pm
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Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5598 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes
| Message 2 of 7 04 August 2013 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
How should it know? It could use a dictionary, but to decide, whether you mean все (all people) or всё (everything), you have to understand the text, i.e. be a human editor.
PS. I know there are commercial programs which put the pitch accents. I believe they ask you every time, a form is ambiguous. But they cost money.
Edited by Cabaire on 04 August 2013 at 1:37pm
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 4 of 7 04 August 2013 at 2:28pm | IP Logged |
you already know how e/ё work. that's enough for LR :)
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Helid Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4318 days ago 24 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Polish*, English
| Message 5 of 7 04 August 2013 at 3:27pm | IP Logged |
If I understood correctly you have books in Microsoft Word format. In that case you can
try to use shortcut ctrl + h (find and replace) to do that.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 6 of 7 04 August 2013 at 9:50pm | IP Logged |
But e is not always ё with no diacritics, often it's just e.
This wouldn't work for a Polish text that had s instead of ś everywhere, would it? :P
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umiak Groupie Poland Joined 4511 days ago 51 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Polish*
| Message 7 of 7 06 August 2013 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
I've found software which does the job: Пишите по-русски. It 'yofikates' like hell, but here it comes the problem mentioned by Cabaire.
Cabaire wrote:
How should it know? It could use a dictionary, but to decide, whether you mean все (all people) or всё (everything), you have to understand the text, i.e. be a human editor.[...] |
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[Chuckle.]I was about to write that the book I want to work with has no word with two dots over 'e' but for 'всё'. I yofikated the whole 'Karamazov Brothers' and then it started asking about the context-dependent words...
The software may be of some help to those who already know some Russian, though. Here are other programs with the same purpose.
Edited by umiak on 06 August 2013 at 11:55pm
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