Reason

Keywords are used to prevent words or phrases from being translated and included in word count analysis reports.

Keyword files can be added in your public folder:

  •  C:\Users\Public\Alchemy Software\Catalyst x.0

The default file is Keywords.txt. However, any filename can be used as you select the keyword file when locking keywords in Alchemy Catalyst.

An important point which needs to be understood with using keyword files is it uses regular expressions. Thus some characters will have a special meaning.

These are the characters that have special meaning with regular expressions (within the double quotes):

 ".", "|", "*", "?", "+", "(", ")", "{", "}", "[", "]", "^", "$" and "\".  

 

Samples

Inline tags in angle brackets

WholeWordsFalse:<[^<>]+>

This will lock all HTML tags contained in angle brackets.

Key number KBxxxxxx

wholewordsfalse:KB[0-9]+

This will lock key numbers starting with KB. For example: KB914455

Key number MSxx-xxx

wholewordsfalse:MS[0-9-]+

This will lock key numbers starting with MS and including a dash. For example: MS08-052

Product key

"([0-9a-z]*[0-9]+[0-9a-z]*)"

This will lock product keys, for example: "02982e7ce7ccf82751204e605d187a0a0cbfc97e"
Remove the quote characters if your key is not included in them.

 

Notes

To define a part of a word as a keyword, use the modifier WholeWordsFalse: before the definition of your keyword. For example, if you define the following keyword:-

 WholeWordsFalse:Copy

The word Copy in "Copyright" will be defined as a keyword.

 

Products or Versions Affected

  • Alchemy CATALYST 8.0

 

Article last updated with Catalyst 11.0 SP2