Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Free tool to produce a TMX file ?
Poster: Koksal U.
Post title: Thanks a lot.
[quote]FarkasAndras wrote:
Any aligner should be able to do this.
Here's one I wrote (Windows only at the moment, free and open source): [url removed]
It takes UTF-8 txt or HTML files, aligns them and creates a TMX. The package also contains a TMX generator tool in case you already have a tab delimited file (spreadsheet with English in one column and Latin in the other) and want to create a TMX from it.
I haven't tested the TMX files it generates very thoroughly at all, but the script has worked flawlessly for me and I received no bug reports from users so far.
Read the readme, try it and come back to me if you have problems.
Another option would be apsic xbench, but that isn't an aligner (i.e. it will only create a TMX from a previously aligned tab delimited file).
If you have Trados, you could also use Winalign, which I can't recommend at all. It's pretty awful.
Plustools is also a possible solution, but I'm not sure it does TMX output and it has its limitations, too.
Note: using Winalign, Plustools or any other aligner I know of is extremely tedious if you have a lot of text to align. To my knowledge, my aligner is the only somewhat user friendly solution that integrates an autoaligner and a TMX generator.
Second note to Plustools users: I recently added instructions to Aligner.bat that allow you to use a mixed workflow. I.e. you can run Aligner.bat to segment/preprocess your text and generate an automatic alignment and then use Plustools to review/correct the sentence pairings. After that, you can either generate a TM with Plustools or return to Aligner.bat and create a TMX with that. The point of the whole operation is that you may find Plustools more convenient for merging/splitting segments while Aligner.bat can provide automatic alignment, HTML processing, TMX generation etc.
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Thank you so much, your program is working well, it will help me so much. Thanks again.
Topic: Free tool to produce a TMX file ?
Poster: Koksal U.
Post title: Thanks a lot.
[quote]FarkasAndras wrote:
Any aligner should be able to do this.
Here's one I wrote (Windows only at the moment, free and open source): [url removed]
It takes UTF-8 txt or HTML files, aligns them and creates a TMX. The package also contains a TMX generator tool in case you already have a tab delimited file (spreadsheet with English in one column and Latin in the other) and want to create a TMX from it.
I haven't tested the TMX files it generates very thoroughly at all, but the script has worked flawlessly for me and I received no bug reports from users so far.
Read the readme, try it and come back to me if you have problems.
Another option would be apsic xbench, but that isn't an aligner (i.e. it will only create a TMX from a previously aligned tab delimited file).
If you have Trados, you could also use Winalign, which I can't recommend at all. It's pretty awful.
Plustools is also a possible solution, but I'm not sure it does TMX output and it has its limitations, too.
Note: using Winalign, Plustools or any other aligner I know of is extremely tedious if you have a lot of text to align. To my knowledge, my aligner is the only somewhat user friendly solution that integrates an autoaligner and a TMX generator.
Second note to Plustools users: I recently added instructions to Aligner.bat that allow you to use a mixed workflow. I.e. you can run Aligner.bat to segment/preprocess your text and generate an automatic alignment and then use Plustools to review/correct the sentence pairings. After that, you can either generate a TM with Plustools or return to Aligner.bat and create a TMX with that. The point of the whole operation is that you may find Plustools more convenient for merging/splitting segments while Aligner.bat can provide automatic alignment, HTML processing, TMX generation etc.
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Thank you so much, your program is working well, it will help me so much. Thanks again.