News: The Web Application is here! Please have a look here if you do not want to install the python GUI

Welcome to the LISA Acronym Dictionary. I created this out of frustration about the many acronyms used in this project. The screenshot below shows how the GUI looks like on a MacOSX, I don't know how it looks on a different OS, but happy for feedback.

To run the GUI you clone this repository and run the acronym_gui.py either outside or inside of Python. For those unfamiliar with Python, that means you type python acronym_gui.py into your terminal in the same folder where the program is located. Depending on your Python installation you might need additional packages in order for it to run. Packages needed to run the GUI:

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You should be able to type your acronym in the input field and hit enter (or use the search button). If you want to add more acronyms to the list edit the LISA_acronyms.csv file (I recommend in Excel), if possible also adding a short description.

If you have another long table of acronyms and you want to merge it with the existing list (recommended method), you can use merge_tables.py [TABLENAME] using a csv table with the fields Acronym, Translation, Description (on MacOS the table needs to be saved as a normal csv and not UTF-8, make sure there are no weird charactes in there).