Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Ocelot 2.2: Open Source CAT tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: I use Wordfast
[quote]FrancescoP wrote:
So what is your preferred CAT tool, Samuel? And why do you like it so much? [/quote]
I use Wordfast Classic. I do not "like" it. But I'm used to it. And my fingers are used to it.
It lacks many features that other CAT tools have (e.g. filtering of segments, automatic segment propagation) and the current version lacks some features the older versions had (e.g. reliable match comparison, manual glossary stemming), and there are some things that wished were different (e.g. updating the active TM when an unedited match comes from a reference TM). And there are some things that I'm just used to (e.g. the fact that TMs and glossaries are plain text files, which means that most of my TM and glossary management is be done by copy/pasting human readable text).
But mostly I keep using it because my fingers are used to it. Finger memory affects translation speed and ease of use more than anything else. But that is not relevant in a discussion of a new CAT tool.
Topic: Ocelot 2.2: Open Source CAT tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: I use Wordfast
[quote]FrancescoP wrote:
So what is your preferred CAT tool, Samuel? And why do you like it so much? [/quote]
I use Wordfast Classic. I do not "like" it. But I'm used to it. And my fingers are used to it.
It lacks many features that other CAT tools have (e.g. filtering of segments, automatic segment propagation) and the current version lacks some features the older versions had (e.g. reliable match comparison, manual glossary stemming), and there are some things that wished were different (e.g. updating the active TM when an unedited match comes from a reference TM). And there are some things that I'm just used to (e.g. the fact that TMs and glossaries are plain text files, which means that most of my TM and glossary management is be done by copy/pasting human readable text).
But mostly I keep using it because my fingers are used to it. Finger memory affects translation speed and ease of use more than anything else. But that is not relevant in a discussion of a new CAT tool.