Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Segment length analysis?
Poster: Mirko Mainardi
Post title: Thanks
[quote]Robin LEPLUMEY wrote:
Hi Mirko,
I guess it would be feasible to write a VBA macro for Word able to do this ;)
Edit: maybe this tread would be a good start: [url removed] [/quote]
Hi Robin, thanks for your reply. That's an interesting idea, and I guess something even "easier" (to some extent...) would be feasible just with formulas in a spreadsheet, but I believe this goes beyond my abilities and/or the time I'm willing to spend trying to do something like that! Besides, I believe that what a translator would actually need is an "agnostic" solution, so ideally something able to process different files formats. In other words, yes I might need to run a quick analysis a bunch of doc files, but they might also be .po files, or .xlsx, or .xliff, etc.
Incidentally, that's also why the ideal solution would be for a CAT tool developer to integrate that functionality in their software, so that it could be used on whatever file format is supported by it (and again, I'm still baffled as to why they don't...).
Topic: Segment length analysis?
Poster: Mirko Mainardi
Post title: Thanks
[quote]Robin LEPLUMEY wrote:
Hi Mirko,
I guess it would be feasible to write a VBA macro for Word able to do this ;)
Edit: maybe this tread would be a good start: [url removed] [/quote]
Hi Robin, thanks for your reply. That's an interesting idea, and I guess something even "easier" (to some extent...) would be feasible just with formulas in a spreadsheet, but I believe this goes beyond my abilities and/or the time I'm willing to spend trying to do something like that! Besides, I believe that what a translator would actually need is an "agnostic" solution, so ideally something able to process different files formats. In other words, yes I might need to run a quick analysis a bunch of doc files, but they might also be .po files, or .xlsx, or .xliff, etc.
Incidentally, that's also why the ideal solution would be for a CAT tool developer to integrate that functionality in their software, so that it could be used on whatever file format is supported by it (and again, I'm still baffled as to why they don't...).