Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Converting TMs and glossaries between CATs
Poster: MikeTrans
Post title: You can save a TMX memory to a glossary with CT
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
[quote]esperantisto wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
TMX is a TM format, not a glossary format. [/quote]
Tell that to CafeTran users (-: [/quote]
The fact that a CAT tool is able to use a TM as a glossary does not make it a glossary format. There is no comment field in TMX (and although it is possible to add Notes to TMX entries, there is no standardised way of using them for glossary purposes), and no other word-related fields (e.g. parts of speech, antonyms, etc.) either.
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Maybe Igor has added this feature only recently, but there is a menu choice where you can save a TMX memory into a glossary; I haven't used this yet because not necessary, but it's good to know that it's there. Prior of CT I have used Olifant or Hearsome TMX Editor (both are TMX Managers) to carry out this and convert between TMX / Excel / tab-separated text.
Fact is, if you have any sort of tab-separated text, in text format or Excel tables, then you will have a memory to work in CT. TMX files can be changed into tab-separated text so you can edit easily and review a memory (but even for that there are special functions in CT, so no need to convert, you only lose time). And the contrary is also true: If you have TMX files you can convert them to tab-text for a glossary.
Editing a Glossary in CT is a piece of cake, it cannot get easier: Open with any text editor and just edit the header lines to adapt the content of the different columns, or apply some regex for hardcore recognition cases with prefixes, it's all up to you.
Mike
[Edited at 2017-02-03 14:40 GMT]
Topic: Converting TMs and glossaries between CATs
Poster: MikeTrans
Post title: You can save a TMX memory to a glossary with CT
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
[quote]esperantisto wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
TMX is a TM format, not a glossary format. [/quote]
Tell that to CafeTran users (-: [/quote]
The fact that a CAT tool is able to use a TM as a glossary does not make it a glossary format. There is no comment field in TMX (and although it is possible to add Notes to TMX entries, there is no standardised way of using them for glossary purposes), and no other word-related fields (e.g. parts of speech, antonyms, etc.) either.
[/quote]
Maybe Igor has added this feature only recently, but there is a menu choice where you can save a TMX memory into a glossary; I haven't used this yet because not necessary, but it's good to know that it's there. Prior of CT I have used Olifant or Hearsome TMX Editor (both are TMX Managers) to carry out this and convert between TMX / Excel / tab-separated text.
Fact is, if you have any sort of tab-separated text, in text format or Excel tables, then you will have a memory to work in CT. TMX files can be changed into tab-separated text so you can edit easily and review a memory (but even for that there are special functions in CT, so no need to convert, you only lose time). And the contrary is also true: If you have TMX files you can convert them to tab-text for a glossary.
Editing a Glossary in CT is a piece of cake, it cannot get easier: Open with any text editor and just edit the header lines to adapt the content of the different columns, or apply some regex for hardcore recognition cases with prefixes, it's all up to you.
Mike
[Edited at 2017-02-03 14:40 GMT]