Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Recommend a good GUI-based aligner with correction features
Poster: Meta Arkadia
Post title: It's a worry
We first tried three merged files - more than 400 segments, around 5,000 words - in TM-Town. That wasn't feasible, it took way too long, as predicted by Kevin.
We then used bitext2tmx for the same file. It's horrible. The window is way too small, and the fact that all segments look the same led us (that's my daughter and me, and she does the actual work, of course) to the conclusion that dealing with the separate files in TM-Town would be both a lot faster and a lot better.
We then aligned the files using Andras' LF_Aligner, and did the editing in Heartsome's TMXEditor (also free). That wasn't too bad, except for the fact that TMXEditor lacks basic functionalities like join/split, and move up/down. It was doable, though. On a PC, you can edit the aligned files in LF_Aligner which does have the basic functions TMXEditor is lacking, but the interface looks like bitext2tmx, and as far as I know there's no edit interface at all for OS X (however, there is a choice in the Terminal to "Review", will try that tomorrow).
So far, the conclusion is that TM-Town is superior. There's a strong rumour Kevin is going to allow for batch editing. Now if that is true, and if you can upload large files to align that will then be split for editing, that would be our choice so far. Without a shadow of a doubt.
Cheers,
Hans
Topic: Recommend a good GUI-based aligner with correction features
Poster: Meta Arkadia
Post title: It's a worry
We first tried three merged files - more than 400 segments, around 5,000 words - in TM-Town. That wasn't feasible, it took way too long, as predicted by Kevin.
We then used bitext2tmx for the same file. It's horrible. The window is way too small, and the fact that all segments look the same led us (that's my daughter and me, and she does the actual work, of course) to the conclusion that dealing with the separate files in TM-Town would be both a lot faster and a lot better.
We then aligned the files using Andras' LF_Aligner, and did the editing in Heartsome's TMXEditor (also free). That wasn't too bad, except for the fact that TMXEditor lacks basic functionalities like join/split, and move up/down. It was doable, though. On a PC, you can edit the aligned files in LF_Aligner which does have the basic functions TMXEditor is lacking, but the interface looks like bitext2tmx, and as far as I know there's no edit interface at all for OS X (however, there is a choice in the Terminal to "Review", will try that tomorrow).
So far, the conclusion is that TM-Town is superior. There's a strong rumour Kevin is going to allow for batch editing. Now if that is true, and if you can upload large files to align that will then be split for editing, that would be our choice so far. Without a shadow of a doubt.
Cheers,
Hans
