Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Importing autocorrect tables in CAT tools
Poster: German-Dutch Engineering Translation
Post title: CafeTran Espresso's approach
[quote]Daniel Frisano wrote:
In Options > Editor > AutoCorrect you can use "Import Settings" to load your personal autocorrect table, while memoQ and Wordfast Pro don't offer this option (you need to input all the entries one by one).
Does anyone know of a CAT tool that has this batch import option? Anyone ever tried with AutoHotkey or something? [/quote]
In CafeTran Espresso it's simple like always:
[quote]Text shortcuts
Drop-down menu: Blank by default
You can create text shortcuts to expand any given text with a defined character combination. To create a text shortcuts file that you can use across different sessions or projects, you need to first add at least one Text shortcut in Resources > Text shortcuts > Add selection to text shortcuts, then choose Resources > Text shortcuts > List text shortcuts and click the Save button. If you don’t save the shortcuts, they will be working for the current session only. Once saved, the shortcuts file will be available in this drop-down menu.
Saved Text shortcuts files are saved as txt files in cafetran/resources/shortcuts folder (This is on Windows and GNU/Linux. On a Mac, go to Applications and show the CafeTran.app package contents by right-clicking. The folder can be found in /Contents/Java/resources/shortcuts). Multiple shortcuts files can be saved in this folder and selected from the drop-down menu.
Text shortcuts files use the following format (each line is a new shortcut): shortcut=expanded_text
To expand a defined shortcut, you simply type the shortcut and press the Space key.
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Source: [url removed]
Note that the 'AutoCorrect' trigger and expansion are separated by an equal sign.
You can have as many AutoCorrect lists as you want. I'm not sure whether they are automatically selected in via the Project Templates. If not, you'll have to do this manually.
[Edited at 2022-03-09 09:15 GMT]
Topic: Importing autocorrect tables in CAT tools
Poster: German-Dutch Engineering Translation
Post title: CafeTran Espresso's approach
[quote]Daniel Frisano wrote:
In Options > Editor > AutoCorrect you can use "Import Settings" to load your personal autocorrect table, while memoQ and Wordfast Pro don't offer this option (you need to input all the entries one by one).
Does anyone know of a CAT tool that has this batch import option? Anyone ever tried with AutoHotkey or something? [/quote]
In CafeTran Espresso it's simple like always:
[quote]Text shortcuts
Drop-down menu: Blank by default
You can create text shortcuts to expand any given text with a defined character combination. To create a text shortcuts file that you can use across different sessions or projects, you need to first add at least one Text shortcut in Resources > Text shortcuts > Add selection to text shortcuts, then choose Resources > Text shortcuts > List text shortcuts and click the Save button. If you don’t save the shortcuts, they will be working for the current session only. Once saved, the shortcuts file will be available in this drop-down menu.
Saved Text shortcuts files are saved as txt files in cafetran/resources/shortcuts folder (This is on Windows and GNU/Linux. On a Mac, go to Applications and show the CafeTran.app package contents by right-clicking. The folder can be found in /Contents/Java/resources/shortcuts). Multiple shortcuts files can be saved in this folder and selected from the drop-down menu.
Text shortcuts files use the following format (each line is a new shortcut): shortcut=expanded_text
To expand a defined shortcut, you simply type the shortcut and press the Space key.
[/quote]
Source: [url removed]
Note that the 'AutoCorrect' trigger and expansion are separated by an equal sign.
You can have as many AutoCorrect lists as you want. I'm not sure whether they are automatically selected in via the Project Templates. If not, you'll have to do this manually.
[Edited at 2022-03-09 09:15 GMT]