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1. Language name ISO 639 1 ISO 639 2 Abkhaz ab abk Afar aa aar Afrikaans af afr Akan ak aka Albanian sq sqi Amharic am amh Arabic ar ara Aragonese an arg Armenian hy hye Assamese as asm Avaric av ava Avestan ae ave Aymara ay aym Azerbaijani az aze Bambara bm bam Bashkir ba bak Basque eu eus Belarusian be bel Bengali bn ben Bihari bh bih Bislama bi bis Bosnian bs bos Breton br bre Bulgarian bg bul Burmese my mya Catalan ca cat Chamorro ch cha Chechen ce che Chichewa Chewa Nyanja ny nya Chinese zh zho Chuvash cv chv Cornish kw cor Corsican co cos Cree cr cre Croatian hr hrv 89 Languages ISO 639 code list Language name ISO 639 1 ISO 639 2 Czech cs ces Danish da dan Divehi Dhivehi Maldivian dv div Dutch nl nid Dzongkha dz dzo English en eng Esperanto eo epo Estonian et est Ewe ee ewe Faroese fo fao Fijian fj fij Finnish fi fin French fr fra Fula Fulah Pulaar Pular ff ful Galician gl gig Georgian ka kat German de deu Greek Modern el ell Guarani gn grn Gujarati gu guj Haitian Haitian Creole ht hat Hausa ha hau Hebrew modern he heb Herero hz her Hindi hi hin Hiri Motu ho hmo Hungarian hu hun Interlingua ia ina Indonesian id ind Interlingue ie ile Irish ga gle Igbo
2. check in sprostiti Machine Translation Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments 56 56 2220 2546 3090 175 252 HARTA TR BIER BAA ATRIA ARA FRA AUR AT AEREA ARIRAN AAPA TEA TT FRE The underlined item pop up menu can be found in the glossary pane as pojavni menu Highlighting it in the Glossary pane and then rightclicking insets at the cursor position in the target segment 2 File format Glossary files are simple plain text files containing three column tab delimited lists with the source and target terms in the first and second columns respectively The third column can be used for additional information You can have entries with the target column missing i e just containing the source term and the comment Glossary files can be either in system default encoding and indicated by the extension tab or in UTF 8 the extension utf8 The Unicode encoding UTF8 is preferred for obvious reasons Also supported is the CSV format This format is the same as the tab separated one source term target term Comment fields are separated by a comma Strings can be enclosed by quotes which allows having a comma inside a string This is a source term which contains a comma c est un terme qui contient une virgule In addition to the plain text format TBX format is also supported TBX Term Base eXchange is the open XML based standard for exchanging structured term
3. F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source OmegaT css F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source OmegaTUsersManual_xinclude full xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source PlainText xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source ProjectProperties xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source Regexp xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source Searches xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source Segmentation xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT 451 source Spellchecker xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source TranslationMemories xml F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L source version properties F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L tm F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT4SL tm auto F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT45L tm auto EN SL OmegaT tmx The contents of the checkout folder will be marked accordingly Name Anderungsdatum Typ svn 10 02 2013 21 07 Dateiordner dictionary 01 01 2013 11 44 Dateiordner de glossary 01 01 2013 11 44 Dateiordner dh omegat 10 02 2013 20 47 Dateiordner dh source 10 02 2013 20 46 Dateiordner de tm 10 02 2013 20 46 Dateiordner Jk omegat project 01 01 2013 15 54 PROJECT Datei e commit local changes to the server right click on the local checkout folder and select SVN Commit The Commit window see below opens Check the changes to be made e the folders and files added in this case 99 OmegaT Team Projects 24 F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT4SL Commit TortoiseSVN Jali Commit to https pl2 projectlocker com No
4. 19 The user interface creationID Author of the match creationDate Date of the match fuzzyFlag Indicate that this match is fuzzy currently only for translations from PO files with the fuzzy mark 2 3 Glossary pane The Glossary pane allows you to access your own collection of expressions and specialist terminology which you have built up in your glossary files It shows translation of terms found in the current segment The source segment in the example below was Context menu command as in the Fuzzy Matches example above and the terms shown were found in the glossaries available Microsoft s Term collection and Slovenian Linux User group Glossary Figure 4 4 multi word entry in the glossary JE OmegaT 2 5 3 verbatim x Project Edit GoTo View Tools Options Help Editor Addons Mozilla messages po O Glossary Fuzzy Matches Ustvari primer gumba v orodni vrstici brskalnika a menu command menijski ukaz a 1 definition A choice on a menu Ukaz v glavnem meniju Noun Ustvari element v meniju Orodja Wi context menu priro ni meni vsebinski meni 1 definition A menu that is related to the active window or item accessible by right clicking the mouse Noun Context menu command Ukaz v kontekstnem meniju lt segment 1291 gt Ustvari kontekstni meni za slike context okviru Podpora Za stransko okno command ukaz ukaz A 1 definition An instruction to a
5. On Linux Installing and running OmegaT cd usr local omegat This command changes the folder to the folder containing the executable OmegaT file The second command is the command which actually launches OmegaT In its most basic form this command is java jar OmegaT jar Pay attention to the capitalization in OS other than Windows the program will not start if you enter omegat instead of Omega This method has a particular benefit of being suitable for finding causes of problems if an error occurs during use of the program an error message is output in the terminal window which may contain useful information on the cause of the error The above method somewhat impractical way of launching a program routinely For this reason the two commands described above are contained in a file a script also called a bat file on Windows systems When this file is executed the commands within it are automatically carried out Consequently to make changes to the launch command it is sufficient to modify the file 6 2 Launch command arguments The basic command has already been mentioned above Changes to this command involve the addition of arguments to it Arguments are added after the initial java and before the jar OmegaT jar Note that in Windows you can change the OmegaT 4J ini file to reflect your preferences On Mac OS X you can change the Info plist located in OmegaT app Contents to do the same A
6. Other formatted text file types may also be handled by OmegaT by associating their file extensions to a supported file type assuming that the corresponding segmentation rules will segment them correctly 2 Other file formats Other plain text or formatted text file formats suitable for processing in OmegaT may also exist External tools can be used to convert files to supported formats The translated files will then need to be converted back to the original format For example if you have an outdated Microsoft Word version that does not handle the ODT format here s a round trip for Word files with the DOC extension e import the file into ODF writer e save the file in ODT format e translate it into the target ODT file e load the target file in ODF writer e save the file as a DOC file The quality of formatting of the translated file will depend on the quality of the round trip conversion Before proceeding with such conversions be sure to test all options Check the OmegaT home page http www omegat org for an up to date listing of auxiliary translation tools 49 Files to translate 3 Right to left languages Justification of source and target segments depends upon the project languages By default left justification is used for Left To Right LTR languages and right justification for Right To Left RTL languages You can toggle between different display modes by pressing Shift Ctrl O this is the letter O and
7. Note that you segments from orderl that are not present in order2 and other subsequent jobs will be tagged as orphan segments however they will still be useful for getting fuzzy matches several translators working on the same project split the source files into source Alice source Bob and allocate them to team members Alice Bob They can then create their own projects and deliver their own project_save tmx when finished or when a given milestone has been reached The project_save tmx files are then collected and possible conflicts as regards terminology for instance get resolved A new version of the master TM is then created either to be put in team members tm autosubfolders or to replace their project_save tmx files The team can also use the same subfolder structure for the target files This allows them for instance to check at any moment whether the target version for the complete project is still OK 1 2 tmx backup As you translate your files OmegaT stores your work continually in project_save tmx in the project s omegat subfolders 60 Translation memories OmegaT also backups translation memory to project_save tmx YEARMMDDHHNN bak in the same subfolder whenever a project is opened or reloaded YEAR is 4 digit year MM is a month DD day of the month HH and NN are hours and minutes when the previous translation memory was Saved If you believe you have lost translation data follow the following proced
8. Saving and Output optionsSaveOptionsMenultem Proxy login optionsViewOptionsMenuLoginitem Restore Main Window optionsRestoreGUIMenultem 8 Help Menu Table H 7 Help Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code User Manual Fl helpContentsMenultem About helpAboutMenultem 111 Appendix I Legal notices 1 For the documentation Copyright The documentation distributed with OmegaT includes the User Manual and the readme txt document The documentation is Copyright 2013 Vito Smolej The author of the Chapter Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes is Samuel Murray Copyright 2005 2012 Distribution and modifications The documentation is a free document you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or if you prefer any later version Warranty The documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details 2 For the application Copyright OmegaT is Copyright 2000 2013 Keith Godfrey Zoltan Bartko Volker Berlin Didier Briel Kim Bruning Alex Buloichik Thomas Cordonnier Sandra Jean Chua Martin Fleurke Wildrich Fourie Phillip Hall Jean Christophe Helar
9. lt Log file lt b0 gt log txt lt b0 gt for tracking operations and errors lt segment 3167 gt OmegaT creates its tags before the process of sentence segmenting Depending upon the segmenting rules the pair of tags may get separated into two consecutive segments and the tag validation will err on the side of caution and mark the two segments 2 Tag operations Care must be exercised with tags If they are accidentally changed the formatting of the final file may be corrupted The basic rule is that the sequence of tags must be preserved in the same order However it is possible if certain rules are strictly followed to deviate from this basic rule Tag duplication To duplicate tag groups just copy them in the position of your choice Keep in mind that in a pair group the opening tag must come before the closing tag The formatting represented by the group you have duplicated will be applied to both sections 55 Working with formatted text Example lt b0 gt This formatting lt b0 gt is going to be duplicated here lt segment 0001 gt After duplication lt b0 gt This formatting lt b0 gt has been lt b0 gt duplicated here lt b0 gt lt segment 0001 gt Tag group deletion To delete tag groups just remove them from the segment Keep in mind that a pair group must have both its opening and its closing tag deleted to ensure that all traces of the formatting are properly erased otherwise the translated file may
10. 1 File filters dialog This dialog lists available file filters Should you wish not to use OmegaT to translate files of a certain type you can turn off the corresponding filter by deactivating the check box beside its name OmegaT will then omit the appropriate files while loading projects and will copy them unmodified when creating target documents When you wish to use the filter again just tick the check box Click Defaults to reset the file filters to the default settings To edit which files in which encodings the filter is to process select the filter from the list and click Edit 2 Filter options Several filters Text files XHTML files HTML and XHTML files OpenDocument files and Microsoft Open XML files have one or more specific options To modify the options select the filter from the list and click on Options The available options are Text files e Paragraph segmentation on line breaks empty lines or never if sentence segmentation rules are active the text will further be segmented according to the option selected here PO files e Allow blank translations in the target file If on when a PO segment which may be a whole paragraph is not translated the translation will be empty in the target file Technically speaking the msgstr segment in the PO target file if created will be left empty As this is the standard behavior for PO files it is on by default If the option is off the source text will be copied to th
11. Glossaries are files created and updated manually for use in OmegaT If an OmegaT project contains one or more glossaries any terms in the glossary which are also found in the current segment will be automatically displayed in the Glossary viewer You define its location and name in the project properties dialog The extension must be txt if not it will be added The location of the file must be within the glossaryfolder but it can be in a deeper folder e g glossary sub glossary txt The file does not need to exist when setting it it will be created if necessary when adding a glossary entry If the file already exists no attempt is done to verify the format or the character set of the file the new entries will always be in tab separated format and UTF 8 As the existing content will not be touched damage to an existing file would be limited 1 Usage To use an existing glossary simply place it in the glossary folder after creating the project OmegaT automatically detects glossary files in this folder when a project is opened Terms in the current segment which OmegaT finds in the glossary file s are displayed in the Glossary pane Figure 18 1 Glossary pane E OmegaT 2 5 3 verbatim ela X Project Edit Go To View Tools Options Help Editor Addons Mozilla messages po Ma Glossary Fuzzy Matches Ustvari primer gumba v orodni vrstici brskalnika 2 menu command menijski ukaz a 1 definition A choice o
12. Main OmegaT window Editor pane Match pane where you type and edit the translation displays the most similar segments from translation memories Glossary pane displays terminology found for items in the current segment Dictonary pane displays dictionary hits found for items in the current segment Machine Translations pane Notes pane displays the translation provided by MT services notes pertaining to the current segment e g alternative translations or the current key in case of key value file formats Comments pane Comments by the author in PO files or the name of the attribute being translated in XHTML Table 4 2 Other windows Tag Validation window Used to validate tags open with Ctrl T close with Esc Help browser Used to display the user manual open with F1 close with Esc Statistics window Used to open the window with the statistics of the project display it using Tools gt Statistics Match statistics window Used to display the match statistics of the project select Tools gt Match statisticsto open it Table 4 3 Settings dialogs Project properties Used to modify the project folders and languages access via Ctrl E shortcut or Project gt properties close via Esc Font Used to modify the font used by OmegaT to display source translation matches and glossary terms access via Options gt Font
13. The search string a ZA Z 6 qwB in the example above for instance looks for words in the target segment containing questionable characters from German keyboard Regular expressions are a powerful way to look for instances of a string See more in the chapter Regular Expressions Additionally to one of the methods above you can select the following e case sensitive the search will be performed for the exact string specified i e capitalization is observed e in source search in the source segments e in translations search in the target segments 68 Searches e in notes search in notes to segments search TMs translation memories in the tm folder are included in the search display all results clearing this check box will case OmegaT show just the first occurrence of a hit if several hits exist If you click on the button Advanced options additional criteria author of the translation date translated etc as shown in the above image can be selected 4 Search results display Pressing the search button after entering a string in the search field displays all the segments in the project that include the entered string As OmegaT handles identical segments as one single entity only the first unique segment is shown The segments are displayed in order of appearance in the project Translated segments are displayed with the original text at the top and the translated text at the bottom untranslated segme
14. default Replace with source Ctri Shift R Replaces the current target segment contents with the source text contents Insert source Ctrl Shift 1 Inserts the source text contents into the target segment at the cursor position Insert Source Tags Ctrl Shift T Inserts the source tags into the target segment at the cursor position Search project Ctrl F Displays a dialog to conduct searches in the project Replace with Machine Translation Ctrl M Replaces the target segment with the machine translation of the source No action if machine tools are deactivated see Menu gt Options gt Machine Translate Export Selection Shift Ctrl C Exports the current selection to a text file for processing Create Glossary Entry Shift Ctrl G Allows the user create an entry in the default glossary file 32 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts 2 3 Moving around Table 5 12 Moving around shortcuts Next Untranslated Segment Ctrl U Moves the editing field to the next segment that is not registered in the project s translation memory Next Segment Ctrl N Enter or Return Moves the editing field to the next segment Previous Segment Ctrl P Moves the editing field to the previous segment Segment number Ctrl Moves to the segment number entered Back in history Ctri Shift P Moves one segment back in history Forw
15. files named test html in other folders they will be ignored e dir 10 test html Only the file test html in the folder dir 10 will be processed Again note that the backslash is escaped as well output tag validation regexp When mode has been used this option will specify the files to be processed automatically If the parameter is not specified all files will be processed Here s few typical examples to limit your choice e Atm All HTML files will be translated note that the period in the usual html has to be escaped as specified by the rules for regular expressions e test html Only the file test html at the root of the source folder will be translated If there are other files named test html in other folders they will be ignored e dir 10 test html Only the file test html in the folder dir 10 will be processed Again note that the backslash is escaped as well tag validation abort warn outputFileName This option allows the tag validation in a batch mode If abort is selected the tag validator will stop on the first invalid segment If warn is specified the tag validator will process all segments and write warnings about any segments with invalid tags into the file specified 6 3 3 Quiet option An extra command line parameter specific to console mode quiet In the quiet mode less info is logged to the screen The messages you would usually find in the status bar are not displayed
16. purposes Skip text matching regular expression The text matching the regular expression will be skipped Do not translate the content attribute of meta tags The following meta tags will not be translated Do not translate the content of tags with the following attribute key value pairs separate with commas a match in the list of key value pairs will cause the content of tags to be ignored Text files e Paragraph segmentation on line breaks empty lines or never if sentence segmentation rules are active the text will further be segmented according to the option selected here Open Document Format ODF files e You can select which of the following items are to be translated index entries bookmarks bookmark references notes comments presentation notes links URL sheet names 3 Edit filter dialog This dialog enables you to set up the source filename patterns of files to be processed by the filter customize the filenames of translated files and select which encodings should be used for loading the file and saving its translated counterpart To modify a file filter pattern either modify the fields directly or click Edit To add a new file filter pattern click Add The same dialog is used to add a pattern or to edit a particular pattern The dialog is useful because it includes a special target filename pattern editor with which you can customize the names of output files 3 1 Source file type filename patte
17. 107 Contributing to OmegaT 107 Development Localizing 107 Donating to OmegaT 107 Financial support 107 Reporting bugs 107 SourceForge Project 107 OmegaT windows 17 see also Windows and panes in OmegaT Restoring to factory setup 17 P Plugins LanguageTool 104 Scripting 105 Tokenizer 102 Project Autopropagation option 36 Changing the folder structure 37 Create open new 3 Enable Sentence level segmentation 36 Match statistics 29 Options 65 Pretranslation 60 Project management shortcuts 31 Properties 34 65 89 see also Languages Remove tags option 36 Statistics 29 Project files Application files 46 File omegat project 44 Glossary subfolder 76 ignored_words and learned_words 44 Source subfolder 45 statistics file 44 Subfolder omegat 44 Target subfolder 45 Translation project files 43 User files 77 see also Glossaries User settings files 45 Project Settings Editing Behavior 16 File filters 15 Font 15 Segmentation 16 R Regular expressions 70 see also Searching see also Segmentation Examples of use 72 Tools 72 Right to left languages 50 Creating RTL target files 50 Creating RTL target text 50 Mixing RTL and LTR strings 50 OmegaT tags in RTL languages 50 Target files 50 Running OmegaT Building OmegaT from source 14 Command line launching 9 Command line mode 11 Launch script arguments 10 Font antialiasing 10 Google Translate V2 11 Memory assignment
18. 11 Microsoft Translator 11 no team option 11 Proxy host IP address 11 Proxy host port number 11 User country 10 User interface language 10 Linux 7 OS X 7 Other systems 8 Using Java Web Start 9 Windows 5 INI file 5 S Search window Example 67 Searches 67 Advanced Options 68 Methods and options 68 Using wild cards 68 Segment marker 18 Segmentation Creating a new rule 66 see also Regular expressions Examples 66 global vs project rules 36 Rules 65 Break rule 65 Exception rule 65 Rules priority 66 Sentence level segmentation 65 Source level segmentation 65 Shortcuts Case selection Shift F3 27 Copy text Ctrl C 23 copy text Ctrl C 24 115 Index Customization 108 Help F1 15 24 Insert text Ctrl I 18 Machine Translate Ctrl M 81 Paste text Ctrl V 23 24 Project files list Ctrl L 21 Project properties Ctri E 15 75 Replace text Ctrl R 18 Search Ctrl F 67 Select All Ctri A 23 24 Selecting the match Ctrl N 18 Tag validation Ctrl T 15 57 Shortcuts Customization View Menu 110 Source files Adding files to the project 22 Encoding 40 54 File formats 48 File type and name pattern 40 Formatted text 55 Formatted text files 48 Mixing RTL and LTR strings 50 Other file formats 49 Plain text files 48 54 PO as bilingual files 48 Right to left languages 50 Translating updated source 19 Spell checker 83 Hints
19. If the files to be translated are parts of a tree structure as in a website you need only specify the top level subfolder and OmegaT will maintain the entire contents while keeping the tree structure intact 1 6 Subfolder target This subfolder is initially empty To add contents to it select Project gt Create Translated Documents Ctrl D Files within the source folder whether translated or not are then generated here with the same hierarchy as present in the source subfolder The contents of the target subfolder will reflect the current state of the translation as present in the project translation memory saved in the current omegat project_save tmx Untranslated segments will hereby remain in the source language 2 User settings files User files contain the information applicable to all the projects for a given user logs OmegaT log This file records Java error messages while OmegaT is running Should OmegaT appear to be behaving erratically it is important to include this file or the relevant part in any bug report script folder containing script files for the script plugin if installed filters xml user s default file filters omegat prefs OmegaT preferences segmentation conf user s default segmentation rules uiLayout xml An xml file with all the GUI accessible option settings Note that default segmentation rules and file filters can be overridden by project specific setup see above
20. The location of user files depends upon the platform you use Windows 2000 and XP Documents and Settings lt User Name gt Application Data OmegaT Windows Vista and 7 Users lt User Name gt AppData Roaming OmegaT Windows other lt Something gt OmegaT lt Something gt corresponds to the location of the home folder as determined by Java Linux Solaris FreeBSD lt User Home gt omegat omegat is a folder the dot preceding its name makes it invisible unless you type Is a or an equivalent command MAC OS X lt User Home gt Library Preferences OmegaT Other lt User Home gt 45 OmegaT Files and Folders 3 Application files OmegalT is supplied as a package that can be downloaded from SourceForge Here a platform independent package in a standard Java form is considered Alternatives include a Linux tar package a Windows installer with or without a Java Runtime Environment a Mac OS X installer and a source code package for developers The platform independent package can be used on any platform with a working Java 1 5 runtime environment including the platforms for which a specific package also exists It is provided as a compressed file zip or tar archive that you must extract to the folder of your choice for installation The file can usually be extracted by double clicking on the downloaded package Once the archive has been extracted a folder containing the following content
21. U To check everything is as expected you may press Ctrl D to create the target documents and check their contents When you exit the project the TMX files in the main project folder see above now contain the translations in the selected language pair for the files you have copied into the source folder Copy them to a safe place for future referrals To avoid reusing the project and thus possibly polluting future cases delete the project folder or archive it away from your workplace 2 3 Sharing translation memories In cases where a team of translators is involved translators will prefer to share common translation memories rather than distribute their local versions OmegaT interfaces to SVN and Git two common team software versioning and revision control systems RCS available under an open source license In case of OmegaT complete project folders in other words the translation memories involved as well as source folders project settings etc are managed by the selected RCS see more in Chapter 2 4 Using TMX with alternative language pairs There may be cases where you have done a project with e g Dutch sources and a translation in say English Then you need a translation in e g Chinese but your translator does not understand Dutch she however understands perfectly English In this case NL EN translation memory can serve as a go between to help generate NL ZH translation The solution in our example is to copy the
22. Usage java jar OmegaT jar path to project mode console translate quiet 6 3 4 Tag validation option Another extra command line parameter specific to console mode tag validation abort warn When this parameter is added tag validation is done prior to translation aligning If the value is abort then on tag errors the errors are printed and the program stops If the value is warn then the errors are printed but OmegaT continues Usage java jar Omegal jar path to project mode console translate tag validation abort 13 Installing and running OmegaT 7 Building OmegaT From Source Note that you will need the ant program http ant apache org bindownload cgi to build your own version of OmegaT Unpack the OmegaT_2 n n_Source zip file and enter the OmegaT_2 n n_Source folder or enter the omegat folder of the SVN checked out code Please make sure that a build xml file is present in that folder Then on the command line type ant jar release This will create a full distribution of OmegaT in the dist folder where you will find all the files necessary to run OmegaT 14 Chapter 4 The user interface 1 Main OmegaT window other windows and dialogs OmegaT main window contains the main menu status bar and several panes Additional windows are available as well as dialogs used to change OmegaT project settings The information below summarizes their use and how they are invoked Table 4 1
23. account Close Ctri Shift Ww Saves the translation and closes the project Save Ctri S Saves the internal translation memory to the hard disk OmegaT automatically saves translations every 10 minutes as well as when you close the project or quit OmegaT Create translated documents Ctrl D Creates the target documents based on your translation of the documents text The created target documents are located in the target folder 25 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts Properties Ctrl E Displays Project properties dialog to edit project languages and folder locations Project Files Ctrl L Closes or opens the Project files window depending on whether it is open or closed Quit Ctrl Q Saves the project and quits OmegaT If you haven t yet saved the project this manually confirms whether you really wish to quit 1 2 Edit Note Items that are found in most applications copy cut paste are not displayed in this menu but are available using your system shortcuts For example Table 5 3 Copy cut paste shortcuts Copy Ctrl C Copies the selected text to the clipboard Cut Ctrl X Copies the selected text to the clipboard and deletes the selected text Paste Ctrl V Pastes the text from the clipboard at the cursor position The Edit menu itself contains the following items Table 5 4 Edit menu Undo Last Action Ctrl Z Restores the statu
24. around e Reference windows e Other 2 1 Project management Table 5 10 Project management shortcuts Open project Ctrl 0 Displays a dialog to locate an existing project Save Ctri S Saves the current work to the internal translation memory file project_save tmx located in the project s omegat folder Close Project Shift Ctrl W Closes the current project Create Translated Ctri D Creates the translated Documents documents in the project s 31 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts Target folder and creates translation memory files levell level2 and omegat tmx files in the project s root folder Project properties Ctrl E Displays the project s settings for modification if required 2 2 Editing Table 5 11 Editing shortcuts Undo last action Ctrl Z Undoes the last editing actions in the current target segment Redo last action Ctrl Y Redoes the last editing actions in the current target segment Select match N Ctri N N is a digit from 1 to 5 The shortcut selects the Nth match displayed in the match window the first match is selected by default Replace with match Ctri R Replaces the current target segment contents with the selected match the first match is selected by default Insert match Ctrl I Inserts the selected match at the cursor position in the current target segment the first match is inserted by
25. be as simple as this is bold or as complex as table data with different font sizes colors positions etc In most translation jobs it is considered important for the formatting of the original text to be retained in the translation OmegaT allows you to do this by marking the characters words that have a special formatting with easy to handle tags Simplifying the original text formatting greatly contributes to reducing the number of tags Where possible unifying the fonts font sizes colors etc used in the document simplifies the task of translation and reduces the possible number of tag errors Each file type is handled differently in OmegaT Specific behavior can be set up in the file filters At the time of writing OmegaT supports the following formatted text formats 48 Files to translate ODF OASIS Open Document Format ods ots odt ott odp otp Microsoft Office Open XML docx dotx xIsx xItx pptx e X HTML html xhtml xht HTML Help Compiler hhc hhk DocBook xml XLIFF xIf xliff sdIxliff of the source target variety QuarkXPress CopyFlowGold tag xtg ResX files resx Android resource xml LaTex tex latex Help xml and Manual hmxp files Typo3 LocManager xml WiX Localization wxl Iceni Infix xml Flash XML export xml Wordfast TXML txml Camtasia for Windows camproj Visio vxd
26. close via Esc File filters Used to adjust the handling of supported file formats access via Options gt File Filters close via Esc 15 The user interface Segmentation Used to change the way your text is segmented into sentences access via Options gt Segmentation close via Esc Editing Behavior Used to change how OmegaT behaves when you iterate between the segments access via Options gt Behavior close via Esc 2 OmegaT main window Figure 4 1 OmegaT main window aE OmegaT 2 5 3 mozil Le Project Edit GoTo View Tools Options Help Editor HG_Mozilla_releases_110n_aurora_April_30 browser chr Fuzzy Matches o pi 5 2 1 It automatically sends test information back to It automatically sends test information back to amp vendorShortName to amp vendorShortName to help make amp brand ShortName help make amp brand ShortName better better Samodejno po ilja podatke neprofitni organizaciji 8vendorShoriMame da Samodejno po ilja podatke neprofitni organizaciji bi bila izdaja brandShortName e bolj a lt segment 0010 gt amp vendorShortName da bi bila izdaja 8 amp brand ShortName Se bolj a amp vendorShortName lt 100 100 100 C Users smo Documents My Svendorshorthlame Dropbox mozilla tm auto memoire_en US_sl aurora tmx gt isa je L zi z z global community Machine Translation A o globalna skupnost Ta samode
27. default the following short list available to make it easier for you to deal with some plain text files e txt files are automatically lt auto gt interpreted by OmegaT as being encoded in the computer s default encoding e txtl files are files in ISO 8859 1 covering most Western Europe languages e txt2 files are files in ISO 8859 2 that covers most Central and Eastern Europe languages e utf8 files are interpreted by OmegaT as being encoded in UTF 8 an encoding that covers almost all languages in the world You can check that yourself by selecting the item File Filters in the menu Options For example when you have a Czech text file very probably written in the ISO 8859 2 code you just need to change the extension txt to txt2 and Omega will interpret its contents correctly And of course if you wish to be on the safe side consider converting this kind of file to Unicode i e to the utf8 file format 54 Chapter 12 Working with formatted text Formatting information present in the source file usually needs to be reproduced in the target file The in line formatting information made possible by the supported formats in particular DocBook HTML XHTML Open Document Format ODF and Office Open XML MS Office 2007 and later at the time of writing is presented as tags in OmegaT Normally tags are ignored when considering the similarity between different texts for matching purposes Tags reproduced in the translated
28. existing translation memory into the tm subfolder and rename it ZH_CN tmx to indicate the target language of the tmx The translator will be shown English translations for source segments in Dutch and use them to create the Chinese translation Important the supporting TMX must be renamed XX_YY tmx where XX_YY is the target language of the tmx for instance to ZH_CN tmx in the example above The project and TMX source languages should of course be identical NL in our example Note that only one TMX for a given language pair is possible so if several translation memories should be involved you will need to merge them all into the XX_YY tmx 3 Sources with existing translations Some types of source files for instance PO TTX etc are bilingual i e they serve both as a source and as a translation memory In such cases an existing translation found in the file is included in the project_save tmx It is treated as a default translation if no match has been found or as an alternative translation in case the same source segment exists but with a target text The result will thus depend on the order in which the source segments have been loaded 63 Translation memories All translations from source documents are also displayed in the Comment pane in addition to the Match pane In case of PO files a 20 penalty applied to the alternative translation i e a 100 match becomes an 80 match The word Fuzzy is displayed on th
29. files to es MX dic and es MX aff and the spelling dictionary will work Note that this will of course check for the standard Castillian rather than for Mexican Spanish 2 Using spelling dictionaries There is no need to instruct OmegaT to use a particular spelling dictionary OmegaT will use the correct language dictionary based upon the language codes of your project Check however that the language codes are exactly the same an FR FR dictionary will not work with an FR target setting for example If necessary edit the file names of the dictionary or change your project s language settings To enable the spell checker select Options gt Spell Checking and tick the Automatically check the spelling of text check box see above Figure 20 2 Using spellchecker m Project Edit Go To View Tools Options Help Editor docs en translationEditing html Segmente nicht zu modifizieren The editing field can be set to behave the following ways lt segment 2513 gt Das Editier Feld kann sich auf folgende Artund Weisen verhalten lt end segment gt Art und Ignore Add to dictionary Die mi dem Original identische Segnente zind als ubersetzt zu betrachten Automatish den besten verfuegbaren Treffer einf gen Fuzzy Matches Glossary Project autosaved on 10 01 AM 31 31 2848 2855 4414 Right clicking on an underlined word Artund in the figure above opens a drop down menu listing suggestions for the correction Ar
30. following a The beginning of a line The end of a line b A word boundary B A non word boundary Table 16 8 Regex Greedy quantifiers The construct matches the following X X once or not at all YA X zero or more times X X one or more times Note greedy quantifiers will match as much as they can For example a will match the aaa in aaabbb 71 Regular expressions Table 16 9 Regex Reluctant non greedy quantifiers The construct Matches the following X X once or not at all X X zero or more times X X one or more times Note non greedy quantifiers will match as little as they can For example a will match the first a in aaabbb Table 16 10 Regex Logical operators The construct matches the following XY X followed by Y X Y Either X or Y XY XY as a single group 1 Regex tools and examples of use A number of interactive tools are available to develop and test regular expressions They generally follow much the same pattern for an example from the Regular Expression Tester see below the regular expression top entry analyzes the search text Text box in the middle yielding the hits shown in the result Text box Figure 16 1 Regex Tester Regular Expressions Tester koto Je Regular Expression lt a gt href s gt gt lt lt a gt Case sensitive V Gl
31. in speech particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker an explanation for I example for why some people say I didn t do nothing some say I didn t do 1 hi and some say nne or the other denendina on social context Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments Glossary Machine Translation 17 17 17 17 17 109 109 2 Installation and Use The LanguageTool plugin for OmegaT can be downloaded from the OmegaT plugins download site http sourceforge net projects omegat plugins files Unzip the files and put them all in the plugins folder located in OmegaT installation folder that is the folder that contains the OmegaT jar Create the plugins folder first if it does not exist Once installed the plugin will be used automatically by OmegaT if Options gt Language Checker is checked The rules applied if any will depend on the source and target language of the project When a rule is triggered the corresponding phrase will be underlined in blue in the Editor see also and didn t do nothing in the picture above When hovering the mouse over the underlined phrase an explanation will appear 104 Appendix F Scripting plugin 1 Introduction OmegaT Scripting allows to run scripts written in different scripting languages in OmegaT 2 Installation and Use The Scripting plugin for OmegaT can be downloaded from the OmegaT plugins download site http
32. in the translation In this case pay extra attention to tag pairs since deleting one side of the pair but forgetting to delete the other is guaranteed to corrupt your document s formatting Since tags are included in the text itself it is possible to use segmentation rules to create segments with fewer tags This is an advanced feature and some experience is required in order for it to be applied properly OmegaT is not yet able to detect mistakes in formatting fully automatically so it will not prompt you if you make an error or change formatting to fit your target language better Sometimes however your translated file may look strange and in the worst case may even refuse to open 58 Chapter 13 Translation memories 1 Translation memories in OmegaT 1 1 tmx folders location and purpose OmegaT projects can have translation memory files i e files with the extension tmx in five different places omegat folder main project folder tm folder The omegat folder contains the project_save tmx and possibly a number of backup TMX files The project_save tmx file contains all the segments that have been recorded in memory since you started the project This file always exists in the project Its contents will always be sorted alphabetically by the source segment The main project folder contains 3 tmx files project_name omegat tmx project_name levell tmx and project name level2 tmx project_name being the nam
33. it directly from the command line you can create a script that includes launch parameters for the command line or you can click on OmegaT jar Installing and running OmegaT to launch it directly Methods differ depending on the distribution Make sure that your PATH settings are correct and that jar files are properly associated with a Java launcher Check Command line launching below for more information 5 Using Java Web Start Java Web Start technology part of Java 1 5 and above can be used to deploy standalone Java software applications with a single click over the network Java Web Start ensures that the latest version of the application will be deployed as well as the correct version of the Java Runtime Environment JRE used To start OmegaT for the first time with Java Web Start load the following URL in your browser http omegat sourceforge net webstart OmegaT jnlp Download the file OmegaT jnip and then click on it During the installation depending on your operating system you may receive several security warnings The permissions you give to this version which may appear as unrestricted access to the computer are identical to the permissions you give to the local version i e they allow access to the hard drive of the computer Subsequent clicks on OmegaT jnip will check for any upgrades install them if there are any and then start OmegaT After the initial installation you can of course also use OmegaT jn
34. material like project translation memory and its glossary e Every three minutes by default an updated version of data shared is available to the rest of the team e The system maintains versioning for data shared e Conflicts for instance alternative translations of the same segment or glossary entry can be monitored resolved and merged The following terms to be used in the text below deserve a short explanation e VCS server i e SVN or Git server is the environment where the common material is kept and maintained on the net The server can exist in the local network but in the majority of cases it will be available on internet i e via URL address One member of the team the project administrator needs to be acquainted with handling the server side i e the job of setting up the environment importing the OmegaT project assigning the access rights for the team members resolving the conflicts etc VCS client To interface with the server an SVN or Git client must be installed on computers of project managers involved in the OmegaT project Very popular clients for Windows environment are TortoiseSVN http tortoisesvn net and TortoiseGit http code google com p tortoisegit Other operating systems Linux OS X offer similar packages repository the place where the shared material is saved and maintained either on a local access network or in Internet Project members connect with it via their VCS client check
35. not the numeral 0 The Shift Ctrl O toggle has three states e default justification that is as defined by the language e left justification e right justification Using the RTL mode in OmegaT has no influence whatsoever on the display mode of the translated documents created in OmegaT The display mode of the translated documents must be modified within the application such as Microsoft Word commonly used to display or modify them check the relevant manuals for details Using Shift Ctrl O causes both text input and display in OmegaT to change It can be used separately for all three panes Editor Fuzzy Matches and Glossary by clicking on the pane and toggling the display mode It can also be used in all the input fields found in OmegaT in the search window for segmentation rules etc Mac OS X users note use Shift Ctrl 0 shortcut and not cmd Ctrl 0 3 1 Mixing RTL and LTR strings in segments When writing purely RTL text the default LTR view may be used In many cases however it is necessary to embed LTR text in RTL text For example in OmegaT tags product names that must be left in the LTR source language place holders in localization files and numbers in text In cases like these it becomes necessary to switch to RTL mode so that the RTL in fact bidirectional text is displayed correctly It should be noted that when Omegat is in RTL mode both source and target are displayed in RTL mode This means that if the source l
36. project is stored as project omegat filters xml Autopropagationcheck box In case there are non unique segments in source documents the Auto propagation check box offers the user the following two possibilities as regards automatic translation if checked the first translated segment will be assumed as the default translation and its target text will be automatically used for later hits during the translation process Mistranslated segments can of course be corrected later manually using Create Alternative Translation If the Auto propagation check box is not checked the segments with alternative translations are left untranslated until the user has decided which translation is to be used e Remove tags check box 36 Project properties When enabled all the formatting tags are removed from source segments This is especially useful when dealing with texts where inline formatting is not really useful e g OCRed PDF bad converted odt or docx etc In a normal case it should always be possible to open the target documents as only inline tags are removed Non visible formatting i e which doesn t appear as tags in the OmegaT editor is retained in target documents An area for setting project folders Here you can select different subfolders for instance the subfolder with source files subfolder for target files etc If you enter names of folders that do not exist yet OmegaT creates them for you In case you decide to modif
37. projectWikilmportMenultem Reload F5 projectReloadMenultem Close Ctrl Shift W projectCloseMenultem Save Ctrl S projectSaveMenultem Create translated documents Ctrl D projectCompileMenultem Properties Ctri E projectEditMenultem Project Files Ctrl L viewFileListMenultem Quit Ctri Q projectExitMenultem 3 Edit Menu Table H 2 Edit Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Undo Last Action Ctrl Z editUndoMenultem Insert Source Tags Shift Ctrl T editTagPainterMenultem Export Selection Shift Ctrl C editExportSelectionMenultem Use as Default Translation editMultipleDefault 109 Redo Last Action Ctrl Y editRedoMenultem Replace With Match Ctri R editOverwriteTranslationMenultem Insert Match Ctrl I editInsertTranslationMenultem Replace with Machine Ctri M editOverwriteMachineTranslationMen Translation Replace With Source Shift Ctril R editOverwriteSourceMenultem Insert Source Shift Ctrl 1 editInsertSourceMenultem Create Glossary Entry Shift Ctrl G editCreateGlossaryEntryMenultem Search Project Ctrl F editFindInProjectMenultem Select Fuzzy Match 1 Ctri 1 editSelectFuzzy1Menultem Select Fuzzy Match 2 Ctri 2 editSelectFuzzy2Menultem Select Fuzzy Match 3 Ctrl 3 editSelectFuzzy3Menultem Select Fuzzy Match 4 Ctri 4 editSelectFuzzy4Menultem Select Fuzzy Match 5 Ctri 5 editSelectFuzzy5Menultem Switch Case to
38. segment will be present in the translated document 1 Formatting tags Tag naming The tags consist of one to three characters and a number Unique numbering allows tags corresponding to each other to be grouped together and differentiates between tags that have the same shortcut character but are in fact different The shortcut characters used try to reflect the underlying meaning of the tag e g b for bold i for italics etc Tag numbering Tags are numbered incrementally by tag group Tag groups in this context are a single tag such as lt i0 gt and lt i0 gt Within a segment the first group pair or single receives the number 0 the second the number 1 etc The first example below has 3 tag groups a pair a single and then another pair the second example has one group only a pair Pairs and singles Tags are always either singles or paired Single tags indicate formatting information that does not affect the surrounding text an extra space or line break for example lt b0 gt lt Ctr N gt lt b0 gt lt br1 gt lt b2 gt lt Enter gt lt b2 gt lt segment 2132 gt lt br1 gt is a single tag and does not affect any surrounding text Paired tags usually indicate style information that applies to the text between the opening tag and the closing tag of a pair lt b0 gt and lt b0 gt below are paired and affect the text log txt Note that the opening tag must always come before the corresponding closing tag
39. separate with commas a match in the list of key value pairs will cause the content of tags to be ignored It is sometimes useful to be able make some tags untranslatable based on the value of attributes For example lt div class hide gt lt span translate no gt You can define key value pairs for tags to be left untranslated For the example above the field would contain class hide translate no Microsoft Office Open XML files You can select which elements are to be translated They will appear as separate segments in the translation Word non visible instruction text comments footnotes endnotes footers Excel comments sheet names Power Point slide comments slide masters slide layouts Global charts diagrams drawings WordArt Other Options e Aggregate tags if checked tags without translatable text between them will be aggregated into single tags e Preserve spaces for all tags if checked white space i e spaces and newlines will be preserved even if not set technically in the document HTML and XHTML files Add or rewrite encoding declaration in HTML and XHTML files Always default Only if X HTML file has a header Only if X HTML file has an encoding declaration Never 39 File Filters Translate the following attributes the selected attributes will appear as segments in the Editor window Start a new paragraph on the lt br gt HTML tag will constitute a paragraph for segmentation
40. sourceforge net projects omegat plugins files Unzip the files and put them all in the plugins folder located in OmegaT installation folder that is the folder that contains the OmegaT jar Create the plugins folder first if it does not exist This adds a new submenu Tools gt Scripting Below the Scripting submenu there s five place holders available for scripts Clicking Scripting opens the Scripting dialog Scripts Folder F OmegaT scripts bad_extension grvy check_rules groovy check_same_segments groovy check_same_segments js currency_translate groovy gui_scripting groovy keybinding groovy i modify_segment groovy search_replace groovy console printin Check for identical segments case sensitive n segment count 0 files project projectFiles for i in 0 lt files size 1 Mi fi files i console printin fi filePath for j in 0 lt fi entries size ste fi entries j source ste getSrcText target project getTranslationInfo ste project getTrans i if target null amp amp source charAt source length 1 HI Available script engines a NetRexx XSUL Groovy bi 4 WH b ua liz 3 li as Runs The Scripting dialog allows you to load an existing script into the text area and run it against the current opened project To customize the script feature do the following e Load a script into the editor by clicking on
41. to text files Go To Next Untranslated Segment stops where there is at least one alternative translation If this option is checked when a fuzzy match is inserted either manually or automatically OmegaT attempts to convert the numbers in the fuzzy matches according to the source contents There are a number of restrictions The source segment and the fuzzy matches must contain the same list of numbers The numbers must be exactly the same between the source and the target matches Only integers and simple floats using the period as a decimal character e g 5 4 but not 5 4 or 54E 01 are considered Documents for translation may contain trade marks names or other proper nouns that will be the same in translated documents There are two strategies for segments that contain only such invariable text You can decide not to translate such segments at all OmegaT will then report these segments as not translated This is the default The alternative is to enter a translation that is identical to the source text Omega is able to recognize that you have done this To make this possible go to Options gt Editing Behavior and check the box Allow translation to be equal to source The text export function exports data from within the current OmegaT project to plain text files The data are exported when the segment is opened The files appear in the script subfolder in the OmegaT user files folder and include e The conte
42. to the menu items you have modified If they do not conflict with system shortcuts they should be available from within OmegaT The full syntax for keystrokes shortcuts is defined in the following Java 1 5 documentation from Oracle bottom of page Java 1 5 keystrokes shortcuts http docs oracle com javase 1 5 0 docs api javax swing KeyStroke html On the Mac the modifier meta must be used to specify the command key The possible keyevents keys are listed in the following Java 1 5 documentation from Oracle Java 1 5 keyEvents description http docs oracle com javase 1 5 0 docs api java awt event KeyEvent html The default OmegaT shortcuts are available from Sourceforge Default OmegaT Shortcuts http omegat svn sourceforge net viewvc omegat branches release 2 6 src org omegat gui main MainMenuShortcuts properties The default OmegaT shortcuts for the Mac are also available from Sourceforge they all use meta instead of ctrl Default OmegaT Shortcuts for the Mac http omegat svn sourceforge net viewvc omegat branches release 2 6 src org omegat gui main MainMenuShortcuts mac properties 108 Shortcuts customization 2 Project Menu Table H 1 Project Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code New projectNewMenultem Open Ctri O projectOpenMenultem Download Team Project projectTeamNewMenultem Import Source Files projectimportMenultem Import From MediaWiki
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44. your 1383 translation between the tags lt c0 gt segment 0001 gt lt c0 gt and lt c1 gt lt end segment lt c1 gt overwriting the source text Nun wird der ganze Text auRerhalb des Zielfeldes gesch tzt und kann nicht berschrieben werden Die Ubersetzung wird zwischen den Tags lt c1 gt lt segment 0001 gt lt c0 gt und lt c0 gt lt end segment gt lt c1 gt eingetippt und dabei wird der Quelltext berschrieben 1243 Nun wird der ganze Text au erhalb des Zielfeldes gesch tzt und kann nicht berschrieben werden Die bersetzung wird zwischen den Tags lt c1 gt lt segment 0001 gt lt c0 gt und lt cO gt lt end segment gt lt c1 gt eingetippt und dabei wird der Quelltext berschrieben Tags are highlighted in bold blue for easy comparison between the original and the translated contents Click on the link to jump to the segment in the Editor pane Correct the error if 22 The user interface necessary and press Ctrl T to return to the tag validation window to correct other errors In the first and third case above tags are paired incorrectly and in the second case the lt sign is missing from the starting tag Tag errors are cases in which the tags in the translation do not correspond in order and number to the original segment Some tag scenarios flagged in the tag validation window are necessary and are benign others will cause problems when the trans
45. 4 50 74 and No match This information is computed for segments as well as for words and for characters without and including spaces Note that there could be minor differences between the OmegaT counts and the numbers provided by other CAT tools 23 The user interface Figure 4 8 Match statistics Segments Repetitions 193 Exact match 10459 1 85 943 39 75 84 64 50 74 No match Note that these totals are a good or as good as they can be approximation of the work involved in the project and thus can serve as a basis for your cost and price calculations Spaces between segments are not taken into account in the last column Repetitions stand for identical segments present several times in the text The first segment and its contents will be classified as no match and the rest of them as a repetition of the first If the translation for several identical source segments already exists in the translation memory of the project these segments together with other already translated unique segments will be classified as an Exact match The number of unique segments if needed is provided in the standard statistics window regardless of whether they have been translated or not The rest of the categories 50 100 involves untranslated segments with a fuzzy match Fuzzy matches can come from the tm folder as well and not just from the internal translation memory in omegarT as is the
46. 47 source 10 02 2013 20 46 e tm 10 02 2013 20 46 24 omegat project 01 01 2013 15 54 3 Using the team project in OmegaT Once the team project is setup team members only need OmegaT to access the team project First they need to use Project gt Download Team Project This will actually do a checkout of the project in a local folder Credentials are stored so it isn t needed to enter them each time Under Linux if OmegaT is still asking for your credentials you can checking the Force saving password as plain text checkbox 100 OmegaT Team Projects For subsequent use all is needed is opening the project like any other OmegaT project OmegaT will recognize it is a team project and will synchronize everything automatically every three minutes by default 101 Appendix D Tokenizer plugin 1 Introduction Tokenizers or stemmers improve the quality of matches by recognizing inflected words in source and translation memory data They also improve glossary matching A stemmer for English for example should identify the string cats and possibly catlike catty etc as based on the root cat and stemmer stemming stemmed as based on stem A stemming algorithm reduces the words fishing fished fish and fisher to the root word fish This is especially useful in case of languages that use pre and postfix forms for the stem words Borrowing an example from Slovenian here good in all possi
47. 84 Spell checker setup 83 Statistics 23 see also Menu Tools Stemmer see Tokenizer T Tag validation 22 see also Shortcuts Tags Window figure 22 see also Tags Tags 55 Duplication 55 Group deletion 56 Group nesting 56 Group overlapping 56 Group validation 57 Hints 58 Inserting source tags 27 Naming 55 Numbering 55 Operations 55 Pairs and singles 55 Target files Encoding 40 File conversion tools 49 File formats 48 Filenames 41 Formatted text 55 Formatted text files 48 see also Tagged text Mixing RTL and LTR strings 50 Other file formats 49 Plain text files 48 Right to left languages 50 Team projects Creating SVN repository 97 Subversion 96 TMX see Translation memories Translation memories 59 U Alternative language pairs 63 Backup 60 compressed 60 Importing and exporting 62 Language 61 Matches 19 multilingual handling of 61 Orphan segments 19 61 PO and OKAPI TTX files 63 see also Translation memories Subfolder tm auto Project main folder 59 Pseudotranslation 64 Reusing translation memories 61 Sharing 63 see also Project Download Team Project Subfolder omegat 59 see also Project files Subfolder tm 59 see also Project files Subfolder tm auto 60 see also Project files Subfolders tm penalty xxx 60 see also Project files Upgrading to sentence segmentation 64 Upgrading OmegaT Windows 5 User Interface Main OmegaT wi
48. 9IXXXXXXXX9IXXX9IIXXXXXIXX9IXXXXXXXXXX Team project option no team addresses projects set up for team work Use it if OmegaT is not to synchronize the project contents Arguments can be combined to launch OmegaT with all the examples described above the command would be java Dswing aatext true Duser language pt Duser country BR Xmx1024M_ DDhttp proxyHost 192 168 1 1 Dhttp proxyport 3128 jar OmegaT jar 6 3 OmegaT in the command line mode The purpose of the console mode is to use OmegaT as a translation tool in a scripting environment When started in console mode no GUI is loaded so it will work on any console and the given project is automatically processed as requested 6 3 1 Prerequisites To run OmegaT in the command line mode a valid OmegaT project must be present The location does not matter since you have to add it to the command line at the start up anyway If you need altered settings the configuration files must be available This can be achieved in two ways e Run OmegaT normally with the GUI and specify the settings If you start OmegaT in console mode it will use the same settings 11 Installing and running OmegaT e If you can t run OmegaT normally no graphical environment available copy the settings files from some other OmegaT installation on another machine to a specific folder The location does not matter since you can add it to the command line at startup The relevant file
49. DF documents Groovy http groovy codehaus org is a dynamic language for the Java Virtual machine It builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python Ruby and Smalltalk JavaScript sometimes abbreviated JS not to be confused with Java is a prototype based scripting language that is dynamic weakly typed and has first class functions It is a multi paradigm language supporting object oriented imperative and functional programming styles Being the language behind popular software such as Firefox it is a familiar and preferred programming tool in the open source domain All the languages have access to the OmegaT object model with the project as the top object The following code snippet in groovy for instance scans through all the segments in all files in the current project and if the translation exists prints out the source and the target of the segment files project projectFiles for iin O lt files size for j in O lt files i entries size currSegment files i entries j if project getTranslationInfo currSegment source currSegment getSrcText target project getTranslationInfo currSegment translation console printin source gt gt gt gt target 106 Appendix G OmegaT on the web 1 OmegaT sites and OmegaT SourceForge project The OmegaT web site http www omegat org contains links to numerous Omega
50. Lower Case lowerCaseMenultem Switch Case to Upper Case upperCaseMenultem Switch Case to Title Case titleCaseMenultem Cycle case to Shift F3 cycleSwitchCaseMenultem Shortcuts customization Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Create Alternative Translation editMultipleAlternate 4 GoTo Menu Table H 3 GoTo Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Next Untranslated Segment Ctri U gotoNextUntranslatedMenultem Next Segment Ctrl N or Enter or Tab gotoNextSegmentMenultem Previous Segment Ctrl P or Ctrl Enter or Ctrl Tab gotoPreviousSegmentMenultem Segment number Ctri J gotoSegmentMenultem Next Note gotoNextNoteMenultem Previous Note gotoPreviousNoteMenultem Forward in history Ctrl Shift N gotoHistoryForwardMenultem Back in history Ctri Shift P gotoHistoryBackMenultem 5 View Menu Table H 4 View Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Mark Translated Segments viewMarkTranslatedSegmentsCheckE Mark Untranslated Segments viewMarkUntranslatedSegmentsChec Display Source Segments viewDisplaySegmentSourceCheckBo Mark Non Unique Segments viewMarkNonUniqueSegmentsChecki Mark Segments with Notes viewMarkNotedSegmentsChedkBoxM Mark Non breakable Spaces viewMarkNBSPCheckBoxMenultem Mark Whitespace viewMarkWhitespaceC
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53. OmegaT 2 6 User s Guide Vito Smolej OmegaT 2 6 User s Guide Vito Smolej Publication date Abstract This document is the official user s guide to OmegaT the free Computer Aided Translation tool It also contains installation instructions Table of Contents 1 About OmegaT introduction IA KUKABA KA Kanaani 1 Ts Omega Tr HIGH OQMES sts eset eee abide A cree ni ote 1 2 SUMMary Of Chapters it ds 1 2 Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes oo eed ea desserts eee 3 1 Seb Up A NEW PlOjeCt vino due tenian O AO ONE 3 2 Translate the file ui AN Ee eared 3 3 Validate your tags sissies dette Gea nace ave edie iad ee ee A ee eae 3 4 Generate the translated file 2 0 0 eee cee cee cece eee eaten cane eee aa ee eee tees cates saa esaaaaeseaaees 4 5 Few more things to remember cece eece eect eee tees eee e eae ee eae eeee nese aaeeeaaaeeeaaeees 4 3 Installing and running OMEGAT uu Ba Lu Kawa ee kaa Kwea kaaa wwa 5 ABBA YAYA aa Tai SA ETS AAA AAA AAA AA AA AAA 5 2 2 LINUX AA II ot it A SAU AAA WALAANI KAA d a 6 3 Mac OS USOS ii Ii kakaa aaa 7 4 Oa AS AA AA AWA AA eed ae MA IFAD etd IA MITI MIA 8 5 Using Java Web Start iaa add 9 6 Starting OmegaT from the command line wwwwwwwmawwwanwwa muwa niwwn ziwani niwa 9 7 Building OmegaT From Source cocooccccnncnncnncnnnnncncnnnnnconcnnnnnnnnnnnnrrnnnnnrnnnrnnnnnrrnrnninnnnnns 14 4 THE userinterface ii A hed He end aan Dc 15 1 Main OmegaT
54. OmegaT in 5 minutes Will Helton his final reading of the draft has spared me a lot of embarrassment One could only wonder how many the and a prepositions would still be missing without his invaluable help Jean Christophe Helary special thanks to JC for his concise description of OmegaT run command line parameters and all other details have yet to notice Last but not least my thanks to all the contributors to OmegaT documentation tracker https sourceforge net p omegat documentation for all the inconsistencies found in the previous versions of the documentation Keep up your good work 113 Index C Comments Comments pane 21 Customizing OmegaT Linux 6 OS X Launch parameters 7 D Dictionaries 74 Britannica 74 Downloading and installing 74 Longman 74 Merriam Webster 74 see also Dictionaries Problems with 75 StarDict 74 Webster 74 Encoding Central and Eastern European 54 Plain text files 54 Unicode 54 Western 54 F File filters Dialog 38 41 Editing 40 File type and name pattern 40 global vs project file filters 36 Options 38 Project specific file filters 38 Source target encoding 40 File formats formatted 48 see also Source files Unformatted 48 see also Source files G Glossaries 20 76 Creating a glossary 77 File format 77 Glossary pane multiple words entries 77 Location of the writable glossary file 37 78 Microsoft Terminology collection 77 P
55. Search window e Tag validation window The dialog can be accessed via the Options gt Font item in the Main menu The dialog contains Font drop down to select one of the fonts available on your machine e Size edit to change font size e Sample text field for immediate preview of the selected font Note In some cases it may take quite some time for OmegaT to update the display after the font setting has been changed This is especially the case when a large file containing many segments is open in the editor and or slow hardware is used Note also that some fonts behave better for some language pairs than for others In particular if you are 87 Miscellaneous subjects translating between two languages with different alphabets writing systems such as Russian and Japanese select a font that can be used for both 4 Preventing data loss OmegaT is a robust application However you should take precautions against data loss when using OmegaT just as with any other application When you translate your files OmegaT stores all your progress in the translation memory project_save tmx that resides in the project s omegat subfolder OmegaT also backs up the translation memory to project_save tmx YEARMMDDHHNN bak in the same subfolder each time a project is opened or reloaded YEAR is the 4 digit year MM is the month DD the day of the month and HH and NN are the hours and minutes when the previous translation memory was sa
56. T resources User support is provided on a volunteer basis at the OmegaT Yahoo User Group http tech groups yahoo com group omegat The FAQ http tech groups yahoo com group OmegaT database method reportRows tbl 1 is a good starting point for finding answers to questions you may have For the latest version of OmegaT refer to the downloads page at www omegat org You can also file bug reports https sourceforge net p omegat bugs and requests for enhancements https sourceforge net p omegat feature requests 2 Bug reports Remember that every good bug report needs just three things e Steps to reproduce e What you expected to see e What you saw instead More can be found in the Painless Bug Tracking http www joelonsoftware com articles fog0000000029 html article by Joel Spolsky You should add copies of files portions of the log screen shots and anything else that you think will help the developers to find and fix your bug Note that bug reports and requests for enhancements are publicly visible so you should not add any sensitive files If you wish to keep track of what is happening to the report register as a SourceForge user login and file a bug report or simply click Monitor at the top of the report 3 Contributing to OmegaT project To contribute to OmegaT first join the user group http tech groups yahoo com group OmegaT via web or by sending an email to OmegaT subscribeOyahoogroups com mailto Om
57. To View Tools Options Help Editor HowDoICustomizeToolbars UTF8 a Glossary FuzzyMatches Kako lahko prika em ali skrije 1 razli ne orodne vrstice Ve ino orodnih vrstic se lahko prikazuje ali skriva po va i Zelji To show or hide a toolbar for win linux right click for for mac control click for an empty section of the Menu Bar and check or uncheck it in the pop up menu for x35 Ce elite prikazati ali skriti orodno vrstico for win linux desnokliknite for for macjpritisnite na tipko ctrl in kliknite forina prazno podro je v menijski vrstici in eleno postavko a pop up menu 1 definition A menu thatis related to the active window or item accessible by right clicking the mouse mM right click klikniti z desno mi kino tipko 4 definition To position the mouse over an object and then press and release the secondary right mouse button Right clicking opens a shortcut menu that contains useful commands which change depending on where you click menu bar menijska vrstica 1 definition A rectangular bar displayed in an application program s on screen window often atthe top from which menus can be selected by the user Names of available menus are displayed in the menu bar choosing one with the keyboard or with a mouse causes the list of options in that menu to be odkljukajte oziroma po istite v pojavnem meniju displayed lt segment 1212 gt
58. V Auto propagation of Translations File locations ra E Dictionary Folder Browse EsmyFirstidictionaryy Translated Files Folder Browse Em yA mai It contains 35 Project properties An area for setting project source and target languages You can either enter the source and target languages by hand or use the drop down menus Bear in mind that changing the languages may render the currently used translation memories useless since their language pair may not longer match the new languages Enable Sentence level segmentation check box The segmentation settings only address the way the source files are handled by OmegaT The predominant way of segmenting the sources is the sentence level segmenting so this check box should in a normal case be left checked In some seldom cases the alternative i e segmenting by paragraphs may be preferred Changing this flag does not modify the segmentation of already existing translation memories If you decide mid translation to switch from sentence to paragraph translation the internal translation memory of the project will not be changed OmegaT may upgrade old translation memories that did not use sentence segmentation but not vice versa Changing segmentation settings may cause some already translated segments to be split or merged This will effectively return them to the untranslated status as they will no longer match segments recorded in the project memory even thou
59. aT If you already have a version of OmegaT installed on your PC and wish to upgrade to a more recent version you have two options Install over the existing installation To do this simply select the same installation folder as the existing installation when installing the new version The old version of OmegaT will be overwritten but any settings from it will be retained This includes preferences set from within OmegaT any changes you have made to your OmegaT 14J ini file and also your launch script bat file if you are using one With this method you may also download the Windows without JRE version since the new installation will use your existing JRE Install to a new folder This will enable you to keep both versions side by side which you may wish to do until you feel comfortable with the new version This method will also use preferences and settings you have made from within OmegaT In this case however e If you have made changes to your OmegaT 14J ini file and or are using a bat file you must copy these over e If your existing OmegaT installation is a Windows with JRE version the new version must also be a Windows with JRE version 2 Linux Intel Users 2 1 Downloading the right package Do you have a Java implementation compatible with Oracle s Java 1 5 JRE e Yes download OmegaT_2 n n_Without_JRE zip No I don t know download OmegaT_2 n n_Linux tar bz2 This package is bundled with Oracl
60. ageCode the target language only XX e targetCountryCode the target country only YY e timestamp system date time at generation time in various patterns See Oracle documentation http docs oracle com javase 1 4 2 docs api java text SimpleDateFormat html for examples of the SimpleDateFormat patterns e system os name operating system of the computer used e system user name system user name e system host name system host name e file source encoding source file encoding file target encoding target file encoding e targetLocaleLCID Microsoft target locale Additional variants are available for variables nameOnly and Extension In case the file name has ambivalent name one can apply variables of the form name only extension number and extension extension number If for example the original file is named Document xx docx the following variables will give the following results e nameOnly 0 Document e nameOnly 1 Document xx e nameOnly 2 Document xx docx 41 File Filters e extension 0 docx e extension 1 xx docx e extension 2 Document xx docx 42 Chapter 8 OmegaT Files and Folders OmegaT works with three types of files e Translation project files These constitute a translation project Losing them may affect the project s integrity and your ability to complete a job Project files are the most important files in OmegaT T
61. anguage codes The syntax of the language pattern conforms to regular expression syntax If your set of rules handles a language country pair we advise you to move it to the top using the Move Up button Add the Before and After patterns To check their syntax and their applicability it is advisable to use tools which allow you to see their effect directly See the chapter on Regular expressions A good starting point will always be the existing rules 4 A few simple examples Intention Before After Note Set the segment start s stands for the after a period period character followed by a space s means any white tab Space character space tab new page etc Do not segment after Mr s This an exception Mr rule so the rule check box must not be ticked Set a segment after Note that after is Japanese period empty Do not segment after Mr s s Exception rule see M Mr Mrs and Ms the use of in regular expressions 66 Chapter 15 Searches 1 Search window Figure 15 1 Text search Window j a zA Z 6atiqwB OmegaT 2 Search for o a gt Exact search Keyword search 9 Regular expressions Nr of results 127 Case sensitive In source Y In translations In notes Search TMs Y Display all results Author Changed after 1 2 12 8 55 AMI Now __ Changed before 1 2 12 8 55 AMI Ni Number of resul
62. anguage is LTR and the target language is RTL or vice versa it may be necessary to toggle back and forth between RTL and LTR modes to view the source and enter the target easily in their respective modes 3 2 OmegaT tags in RTL segments As stated above OmegaT tags are LTR strings When translating between RTL and LTR languages correctly reading the tags from the source and entering them properly in the target may require the translator to toggle between LTR and RTL modes numerous times If the document allows the translator is strongly encouraged to remove style information from the original document so that as few tags as possible appear in the OmegaT interface Follow the indications given in Hints for tags management Frequently validate tags see Tag validation and produce translated documents see below and Menu at regular intervals to make it easier to catch any problems that arise A hint translating a plain text version of the text and adding the necessary style in the relevant application at a later stage may turn out to be less hassle 3 3 Creating translated RTL documents When the translated document is created its display direction will be the same as that of the original document If the original document was LTR the display direction of the target document must be changed manually to RTL in its viewing application Each output format has specific ways of dealing with RTL display check the relevant application manuals for
63. anslated file might fail to open Therefore press Ctrl T before you generate your translated file to validate that your tags are correct Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes 4 Generate the translated file Once you have made certain that there are no tag errors in your translation press Ctrl D to generate the target file which will be created in the target subfolder of your project folder 5 Few more things to remember If a file does not loads into the Editor pane then it could be that your source file is in a format that doesn t work in OmegaT See Chapter 7 File Filters in the User Manual for a list of file formats that OmegaT can handle You can create a new project for each new job and you can add several source files to a project at a time To remind yourself of the project s initial settings open the Project Settings dialog by pressing CtrI E To see a list of files in the project open the Project Files dialog by pressing Ctri L At the end of your translation OmegaT exports three translation memories called level1 level2 and omegat to your project folder The level1 and level2 memories can be shared with users of other translation programs The memory named omegat can be used in OmegaT itself in future projects that you create If you place translation memory files in the tm subfolder of your project folder OmegaT will automatically search them for similar segments called fuzzy matches You can c
64. anslation will appear in the Machine Translate pane every time a new source segment is opened If you find the suggestion acceptable press Ctrl M to replace the target part of the opened segment with the suggestion In the above segment for instance Ctrl M would replace the Spanish version with the Slovenian suggestion If you do not wish OmegaT to send your source segments to Google to get translated untick the Google Translate menu entry in Options Note that nothing but your source segment is sent to the MT service The online version of Google Translate allows the user to correct the suggestion and send the corrected segment in This feature however is not implemented in OmegaT 4 Belazar Belazar http belazar info is a Machine language translation tool for the Russian Belarusian language pair 5 Apertium Apertium http www apertium org is a free open source machine translation platform initially aimed at related language pairs like CA ES GA PT OC and FR but recently expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs such as English Catalan Check the web site for the latest list of implemented language pairs The platform provides e a language independent machine translation engine tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair and e linguistic data for a growing number of language pairs Apertium uses a shallow transfer machine translation
65. ard in history Ctri Shift N Moves one segment forward in history 2 4 Other Table 5 13 Various shortcuts Project files listing Ctrl L Displays the Project files listing Validate Tags Ctrl T Opens the Tag validation window Export Selection Shift Ctrl C Exports the current selection or the current source if no text has been selected The text is exported to a plain text file Search Project Ctrl F Opens a new Search window Help files F1 Displays the OmegaT help files in a separate window 33 Chapter 6 Project properties 1 Properties dialog The Project gt Properties CtrI E dialog is used to define and modify the project folders and languages It is possible to modify the project properties during a translation session Note that changes to the project setup may have some consequences especially when the project has already been started Until you have some experience with OmegaT it is safest to consider all settings final once the translation has started unless of course you realize a major mistake has been made See the section Preventing data loss for ways and means of protecting your work 34 Project properties Figure 6 1 Project properties window Please select the language of your source files and the target language you would like to translate to Here you may also specify custom location of project folders
66. atching Tokenizer With the Mac OS X OmegaT app package double click on the JavaApplicationStub located in OmegaT app Contents MacOS see above to access it to launch OmegaT from the console and get immediate access to the log 103 Appendix E LanguageTool plugin 1 Introduction LanguageTool http www languagetool org is an Open Source style and grammar proofreading software for English French German Polish Dutch Romanian and a number of other languages see the list of supported languages http www languagetool org languages You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect e g mixing up there their no now etc It can also detect some grammar mistakes It does not include spell checking LanguageTool will find errors for which a rule has been defined in its language specific configuration files Figure E 1 The LanguageTool in OmegaT JE OmegaT 2 5 4_1 languageTool neo Project Edit Go To View Tools Options Help Editor Lenz Buechner UTF8 Grammars evolve through usage and also due to separations of the human population With the advent of written representations formal rules about language usage tend to appear alsh Formal gran Also is not used at the end of the sentence Use as well instead documentation over time and by observation as well Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation
67. ate languages If for a given source segment there is no entry for the selected target language all other target segments are loaded regardless of the language For instance if the language pair of the project is DE FR it can be still be of some help to see hits in the DE EN translation if there s none in the DE FR pair 1 4 Orphan segments The file project_save tmx contains all the segments that have been translated since you started the project If you modify the project segmentation or delete files from the source some matches may appear as orphan strings in the Match Viewer such matches refer to segments that do not exist any more in the source documents as they correspond to segments translated and recorded before the modifications took place 2 Reusing translation memories Initially that is when the project is created the main TM of the project project_save tmx is empty This TM gradually becomes filled during the translation To speed up this process existing translations can be reused If a given sentence has already been translated once and translated correctly there is no need for it to be retranslated Translation memories may also contain reference translations multinational legislation such as that of the European Community is a typical example 61 Translation memories When you create the target documents in an OmegaT project the translation memory of the project is output in the form of three files in
68. ate paragraphs or insert page breaks They are not able to contain or retain information regarding the color font etc of the text Currently OmegaT supports the following plain text formats e ASCII text txt etc Encoded text UTF8 e Java resource bundles properties e PO files po e INI key value files ini DTD files DTD e DokuWiki files txt e SubRip title files srt e Magento CE Locale CSV files csv Other plain text file types can be handled by OmegaT by associating their file extension to a supported file type for example pod files can be associated to the ASCII text filter and by pre processing them with specific segmentation rules PO files can contain both the source and the target text Seen from this point of view they are plain text files plus translation memories If for a given source segment there is as yet no existing translation in the project translation memory project _save tmx the current translation will be saved in the project_save tmx as the default translation In case however the same source segment already exists with a different translation the new translation will be saved as an alternative 1 2 Formatted text files Formatted text files contain information such as font type size color etc as well as text They are commonly created in word processors or HTML editors Such file formats are designed to hold formatting information The formatting information can
69. backward one segment at a time to return later to the current segment using Forward in history command below 28 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts 1 4 View Table 5 6 View menu Mark Translated Segments If checked the translated segments will be marked in yellow Mark Untranslated Segments If checked the untranslated segments will be marked in violet Display Source Segments If checked source segments will be shown and marked in green If not checked source segments will not be shown Mark Non Unique Segments If checked non unique segments will be marked in pale grey Mark Segments with Notes If checked segments with notes will be marked in cyan This marking has priority over Mark Translated Segments and Mark Untranslated Segments Mark Non breakable Spaces If checked non breakable spaces in the segment will be displayed with a grey background Modification Info Setting the Display Modification option to Selected will display the time and the author of the last change in the current segment Setting it to All shows this information for all segments and None turns this option off 1 5 Tools Table 5 7 Tools menu Validate Tags Ctri T Checks for missing or displaced tags in formatted files Will display a list of segments with tag errors and possible inconsistencies See Tag Validation and Chapter 12 Working with formatted text Re
70. become corrupted By deleting a tag group you will remove the related formatting from the translated file Example lt b0 gt This formatting lt b0 gt is going to be deleted lt segment 0001 gt After deletion This formatting has been deleted lt segment 0001 gt 3 Tag group nesting Modifying tag group order may result in the nesting of a tag group within another tag group This is acceptable provided the enclosing group totally encloses the enclosed group In other words when moving paired tags ensure that both the opening and the closing tag are both either inside or outside other tag pairs or the translated file may be corrupted and fail to open Example lt b0 gt Formatting lt b0 gt lt bl gt one lt b1 gt is going to be nested inside formatting zero lt segment 0001 gt After nesting lt b0 gt Formatting lt b1 gt one lt b1 gt lt b0 gt has been nested inside formatting zero lt segment 0001 gt 4 Tag group overlapping Overlapping is the result of bad manipulations of tag pairs and is guaranteed to result in formatting corruption and sometimes in the translated file not opening at all Example lt b0 gt Formatting lt b0 gt lt b1 gt one lt b1 gt is going to be messed up lt segment 0001 gt After a bad manipulation lt b0 gt Formatting lt b1 gt one lt b0 gt lt b1 gt is very messed up now lt segment 0001 gt 5 Tag validation options To customize the work with tags one can set down some o
71. ble grammatically correct forms e lep lepa lepo singular masculine feminine neutral e lep i lep a lep e comparative nominative masculine feminine neutral resp Plural form of the adjective e najlep ih superlative plural genitive for M F N 2 Installation and command line use A tokenizer package adapted from the Lucene project is distributed as an OmegaT plug in at http sourceforge net projects omegat plugins files Download the most recent files OmegaT tokenizers_0 4 2 2 1 zip at the time of this writing To install the tokenizer create a folder with the name plugins in the folder where Omegat jar is found and unpack the above files within that folder To run OmegaT with the tokenizer you need to specify which tokenizer you ll use for the source language and which tokenizer you ll use for the target language The syntax is as follows java jar OmegaT jar ITokenizer source language tokenizer name ITokenizerTarget target language tokenizer name The tokenizer names are given in the Readme txt file distributed with the tokenizer files For example if you wish to use the Lucene CJK tokenizer in source and the Lucene French tokenizer in target your command will look like this java jar OmegaT jar lTokenizer org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneCjKTokenizer ITokenizerTarget org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneFrenchTokenizer 3 Mac OS X specifics If you wish to use the tokenizers with
72. ble for the active segment you can label the alternative selected as the default translation The entry will be greyed if there s just one translation available Translation Create Alternative The one and the same segment may depending on the context require different translations Select this menu item if the current translation does not apply and enter the alternative translation 1 3 Go to Table 5 5 Go To menu Next Untranslated Segment Ctri U Moves to the next segment that has no equivalent in the translation memory Next Segment Ctrl N or Enter or Tab Moves to the next segment If the current segment is the last segment in a file it moves to the first segment of the next file Previous Segment Ctrl P or Ctri Enter or Moves to the previous Ctrl Tab segment If the current segment is the first one in a file it moves to the last segment of the previous file Segment number Ctrl The segment is opened when its segment number is entered Next Note The next segment with a note attached to it will open Previous Note The previous segment with a note will open Forward in history Ctri Shift N OmegaT remembers the segments executed With this command you can step forward to the segment you have previously left by the Back in history command Back in history Ctri Shift P With this command you can move
73. case for repetitions and exact matches The only difference with matches from the project_save translation memory is that external TMs cannot give exact matches only 100 If one does not wish to use external TMs for counting one will either have to empty the tm folder or change the project setup temporarily so that the value for tm points to a different location The Match Statistics are tab separated and you can use Ctri A Ctrl C Ctrl V to copy paste them for instance into a spreadsheet or into your cost accounting application Once computed the data also available in omegat project_stats_match txt Note that the file is time stamped as the calculation contrary to the standard statistics is not instantaneous and can thus quickly become obsolete 3 6 Help browser The help browser which displays this manual can be opened by pressing F1 or navigating to Help gt User Manual in the main menu In the window the manual and two buttons are displayed Back and Contents The user manual is an HTML document with links to different chapters Clicking on a link as you would do in a web browser brings the desired page to the front The user manual is located in the docs subfolder under the OmegaT installation folder so you may can for instance view the English documentation by opening the docs en index html file in your browser Opening the user manual in this way also enables you to follow external links as the built in help brows
74. computer program that when issued by the user causes an action to be carried out Commands are usually either typed atthe keyboard or chosen Ustvari primer za stranski pano erite prosim najprej af Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments Machine Translation Project autosaved on 11 44 AM 3480 3480 6113 6780 7563 20 25 If you have TransTips option activated Options gt TransTips you can right click on the highlighted word in the source segment to open a pop up menu with suggested translation as offered by your glossary Selecting one of them will insert it at the current cursor position into the target segment You can also highlight your preferred alternative in the glossary pane and insert it into the target by right clicking on the selection 2 4 Dictionary pane Dictionaries are the electronic equivalents of printed dictionaries like Merriam Webster Duden Larousse etc that you may have on your desk See more about them in the chapter on Dictionaries 2 5 Multiple Translations pane A given source segment may require several different translations depending on the context If the current translation of the segment does not fit the user can select Edit gt Create Alternative Translation The target text entered after that will be treated as an alternative translation of the source segment You can define one of the alternative for instance the most probable among them as
75. contents on their computers For Windows we recommend TortoiseSVN http tortoisesvn net For Mac you can download the client for instance from SourceForge https sourceforge net projects macsvn For Linux see Subversion Commands and Scripts www yolinux com TUTORIALS Subversion html 2 1 Creating a repository The procedure presented here relies on the free SVN server limited to 2 users offered by ProjectLocker http projectlocker com Note that the creator of the repository has implicitly the administrator rights for the repository created Sign in to the site first or if it is your first time on the site register for it and note your user name and password for the future projects 1 Create a new project on ProjectLocker 2 Type the name and description of the repository OmegaT and OmegaT SL Localization in the example used here 3 Choose SVN 4 Click Create Project Open the Projects view for your account The URL shown under Project Services will be used by SVN to connect clients to the SVN server you have just established This is also the place to add members of the team to the project and assign them their rights Note that the team members have to be registered first before you can add them to the project Note in the free version of ProjectLocker you are allowed only two users per project Projects can be managed according to your development style and needs Similar as in the case of Omega projects you wil
76. d a 72 17 1 Merriam Webster dictionary USC 0 ec cece cece cece eee ee eae ee ca a eee eae eeee nese anne wauwawa 74 LBL Glossary PAN es snio Soak sewer tuleved ind aE EE EEE S aE a cada 76 18 2 multiple words entries in glossaries example wwwwwamamanaww sate wuwwwanuwa ziwani 77 19 1 Google Translate example nadernet ieee anne ead eee 81 20 1 SpelleheckKer Setra ita 83 20 22 USINGXSPElENGCKEM cion ina 84 E 1 The LanguageTool in OmegaT ce cec cece eee ce cece cnet eee aeeeeeaaeeeeaeeeesaa eee aaa eeaaaa essen eeeeaaeees 104 vi List of Tables 4 1 Main OmegaT WINDOW aisia aia 15 4 amp 2 Other WING OWS aha ni he ceo sues A hse Leads Dd E Naas eens 15 4 3 Settings dialog S ii oa 15 A fa YA CS TMA Yo Ya KI anade re 16 4 5 Main Window ES ia WA e KAKA Ea a 17 40 MatCh pane Setup WA eee Aa ia 19 SA MaN MEU A AAA WAA AA AA AA IA 25 Diz Pro AA ai kaaa mawa 25 5 3 COpy Cut Paste SNOMM GUUS usa ici iana 26 54 VEGIE MENU A A ANA AAA APAA tan 26 AS A AAA AA AAA AUWA 28 50 VIEW MEN td aa o 29 Side TOO SMN Uta ANA diia 29 5 8 Options MENU ai GAs IA neds Bev ten in tr a te etait 30 5 9 HEIP Menus TA KANA WAA ANA KAA AMANA AAA AA AA 31 5 10 Project management shortcuts eee eee eee reer eee dee ead teeta eens eee 31 5 TL Editing ShortC UtS WA sade aaa 32 5 12 Moving around Shortcuts it uae 33 513 Vario s SNOrtCUtS moseri ngia NANA AAA AAA AAA WAMA 33 LIE WENU ii aaa Wa a
77. d of displaying the text for Japanese characters OmegaT tlt YC 1 4 AIFAULIEERY ILCS the system will display it like this for instance OmegaTBABKBATRI YT s EB BpYlwYpBuBeL LlycB NB BJBB The computer running OmegaT has Russian as the default language and thus shows the characters in the Cyrillic alphabet and not in Kanji 2 The OmegaT solution There are basically three ways to address this problem in OmegaT They all involve the application of file filters in the Options menu Change the encoding of open your source file in a text editor that correctly interprets your files to Unicode its encoding and save the file in UTF 8 encoding Change the file extension from txt to utf8 Omega will automatically interpret the file as a UTF 8 file This is the most common sense alternative sparing you problems in the long run Specify the encoding for i e files with a txt extension in the Text files section of your plain text files the file filters dialog change the Source File Encoding from lt auto gt to the encoding that corresponds to your source txt file for instance to jp for the above example Change the extensions of for instance from txt to jp for Japanese plain texts in the your plain text source files Text files section of the file filters dialog add new Source Filename Pattern jp for this example and select the appropriate parameters for the source and target encoding OmegaT has by
78. default translation by selecting Edit gt Use as Default Translation 2 6 Notes pane The translator can add notes to the opened segment for instance to come back later to the segment and redo the translation check that alternative translations are correct or to ask 20 The user interface colleagues for their opinion You can browse through notes using GoTo gt Next Note and GoTo gt Previous Note 2 7 Comments pane Some of the file formats specialized for translation work for instance PO allow the inclusion of comments This way the translator can be provided the context about the segment to be translated In the example below the author of the PO file included a warning for the translator to check the length of the translation Figure 4 5 Comments pane Editor Support Mozillalmessage 0 Comments o 0 To je super 2 Comment Extracted comments Switch computers amp amp it saves open L10n This is a reply tweet so it must fit in tabs pwords history 140 characters Ko menjate med ra unalniki vam shranjuje odprte zavihke gesla zgodovino References lt segment 6362 gt apps customercare views py 84 Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Machine Translation 2 8 Machine Translation pane The machine translation pane when opened contains the suggestions by machine translation tools for the current segment Press Ctrl M to replace the translation of the current seg
79. details For docx files a number of changes are however done automatically 50 Files to translate e Paragraphs sections and tables are set to bidi e Runs text elements are set to RTL To avoid changing the target files display parameters each time the files are opened it may be possible to change the source file display parameters such that such parameters are inherited by the target files Such modifications are possible in ODF files for example 51 Chapter 10 Editing behavior The dialog in Options gt Editing Behavior enables the user to select how the current segment in the editing field is to be initialized and handled Figure 10 1 Editing behavior options JE Editing Behaviour Options 28 Please select what text you would like to be inserted into the segment that is not translated yet when you move to it The source text 9 Leave the segment empty Y Insert the best fuzzy match Minimal similarity 855 Prefix Attempt to convert numbers when inserting a fuzzy match y Allow translation to be equal to source _ Export the segment to text files Go To Next Untranslated Segment stops when there is at lea Cox Cea You translate your files by moving from segment to segment editing each current segment in turn When moving between segments you may wish to populate the editing field with an existing translation in the fuzzy match pane or with the source text In Op
80. docs api java util regex Pattern html See additional references and examples below Note This chapter is intended for advanced users who need to define their own variants of segmentation rules or devise more complex and powerful key search items Table 16 1 Regex Flags The construct matches the following i Enables case insensitive matching by default the pattern is case sensitive Table 16 2 Regex Character The construct matches the following x The character x except the following uhhhh The character with hexadecimal value Oxhhhh t The tab character u0009 n The newline line feed character u000A r The carriage return character 1u000D f The form feed character u0OOC a The alert bell character u0007 Ye The escape character u001B cx The control character corresponding to x On The character with octal value On 0 lt n lt 7 Onn The character with octal value Onn 0 lt n lt 7 Omnn The character with octal value Omnn 0 lt m lt 3 0 lt n lt 7 xhh The character with hexadecimal value Oxhh Table 16 3 Regex Quotation The construct matches the following Nothing but quotes the following character This is required if you would like to enter any of the meta characters lt gt to match as themselves For exam
81. e n die lettergrootte kan met di dialoogkassie verander word The tags are highlighted in bold blue for easy comparison between the original and the translated contents Click on the link to activate the segment in the Editor Correct the error if necessary in the case above it is the missing lt i2 gt lt i2 gt pair and press Ctrl T to return to the tag validation window to correct other errors Tag errors are tag sequences in the translation in which the same tag order and number as in the original segment is not reproduced Some tag manipulations are necessary and are benign others will cause problems when the translated document is created 7 Hints for tags management Simplify the original text Tags generally represent formatting in some form of the original text Simplifying the original formatting greatly contributes to reducing the number of tags Where circumstances permit unifying used fonts font sizes colors etc should be considered as it could simplify the translation and reduce the potential for tag errors Read the tag operations section to see what can be done with tags Remember that if you find tags a problem in OmegaT and formatting is not extremely relevant for the current translation removing tags may be the easiest way out of problems Pay extra attention to tag pairs If you need to see tags in OmegaT but do not need to retain most of the formatting in the translated document you are free not to include tags
82. e b Spanish and c Slovenian Google Translate translation 80 Machine Translation Figure 19 1 Google Translate example JE OmegaT 2 0 4 google Projekt Bearbeiten Gehezu Ansicht Extras Optionen Hilfe Editor google txt Call me Ishmael E Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to interest me on shore I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world lt Segment 0005 gt lAlgunos a os atr s no importa cu nto tiempo exactamente tiene poco o ning n dinero en mi bolsillo y nada de particular que me interesara en tierra pens que iba a navegar sobre un poco y ver la parte acuosa del mundo lt Segmentende gt Google Translate Nekaj let nazaj Ni va no kako dolgo natan no ki imajo malo ali ni denarja v torbici in ni me zlasti za obresti na kopnem sem mislil da bi jadro okoli malo in si oglejte vodeno delu sveta W rterbuch unscharfe Treffer Glossar 6 24 6 24 24 The Spanish translation is better than the Slovenian Note interesar and navegar in Spanish are correctly translated as the verbs interest and sail respectively In the Slovenian version both words have been translated as nouns It is actually quite probable that the Spanish translation is based at least partially on the actual translation of the book Once you have activated the service a suggestion for the tr
83. e line English words beginning with vowels should generally be preceded by an not a stan s aeiou English the same check as above but concerning consonants a not an s 2 more than one space A Z Period followed by an upper case letter possibly a space is missing between the period and the start of a new sentence bis b search for is not this or isn t etc 73 Chapter 17 Dictionaries 1 How to download and install dictionaries Dictionaries in OmegaT are based on the StarDict or on the Lingvo DSL format To install the necessary files for the StarDict format proceed as follows e Search for the required language combination for instance on the StarDict Platform http stardict sourceforge net index php above e Download the file it should be a tarball archive extension tar bz or tar bz2 e Use untar utility or its equivalent for instance winrar in Windows to extract its contents into the project folder Dictionary There should be three files with extensions dz idx and ifo Note that in addition to source target dictionaries you can using the Dictionary feature obtain access to information such as e Webster s Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 e Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English e The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia etc Some of the dictionaries have no strings attached i e are Free to use and others
84. e of your project The levell file contains only textual information The level2 file encapsulates OmegaT specific tags in correct tmx tags so that the file can be used with its formatting information in a translation tool that supports tmx level 2 memories or OmegaT itself The OmegaT file includes OmegaT specific formatting tags so that the file can be used in other OmegaT projects These files are copies of the file project_save tmx i e of the project s main translation memory excluding the so called orphan segments They carry appropriately changed names so that its contents still remain identifiable when used elsewhere for instance in the tm subfolder of some other project see below The tm folder can contain any number of ancillary translation memories i e tmx files Such files can be created in any of the three varieties indicated above Note that other CAT tools can export and import as well tmx files usually in all three forms The best thing of course is to use OmegaT specific TMX files see above so that the in line formatting within the segment is retained The contents of translation memories in the tm subfolder serve to generate suggestions for the text s to be translated Any text already translated and stored in those files will appear among the fuzzy matches if it is sufficiently similar to the text currently being translated If the source segment in one of the ancillary TMs is identical to the
85. e s Java Runtime Environment This JRE will not interfere with other Java implementations that may already be installed on your system 2 2 Installing OmegaT Unpack untar the downloaded file This will create an omegat folder in the working folder in which you will find all the files needed to run OmegalT To untar the tar gz file tar xf downloaded file tar gz 2 3 Adding OmegaT to your menus KDE or panels Gnome 2 3 1 KDE 4 Users You can add OmegaT to your menus as follows e Press AIt F2 to show KRunner Type kmenuedit enter to run the command The KMenuEditor appears In KMenuEditor select File gt New Item e Then after selecting a suitable menu add a submenu item with File New Submenu and File New Item Enter OmegaT as the name of the new item e In the Command field use the navigation button to find your OmegaT launch script the file named OmegaT in the unpacked folder and select it e Click on the icon button to the right of the Name Description Comment fields Installing and running OmegaT e Other Icons Browse and navigate to the images subfolder in the OmegaT application folder Select the OmegaT png icon e Finally save the changes with File Save 2 3 2 GNOME Users You can add OmegaT to your menus as follows e Right click on the panel Add New Launcher Enter OmegaT in the Name field in the Command field use the navigation button to find your OmegaT launch scrip
86. e source segment When you load a segmented TTX file segments with source target will be included if Allow translation to be equal to source in Options gt Editing Behavior has been checked This may be confusing so you may consider unchecking this option in this case 4 Pseudo translated memory Note Of interest for advanced users only Before segments get translated you may wish to pre process them or address them in some other way than is possible with OmegaT For example if you wish to create a pseudo translation for testing purposes OmegaT enables you to create an additional tmx file that contains all segments of the project The translation in this tmx can be either e translation equals source default e translation segment is empty The tmx file can be given any name you specify A pseudo translated memory can be generated with the following command line parameters java jar omegat jar pseudotranslatetmx lt filename gt pseudotranslatetype equall empty Replace lt filename gt with the name of the file you wish to create either absolute or relative to the working folder the folder you start OmegaT from The second argument pseudotranslatetype is optional Its value is either equal default value for source target or empty target segment is empty You can process the generated tmx with any tool you want To reuse it in OmegaT rename it to project_save tmx and place it in the omegat folder of your p
87. e target segment e Skip PO header 38 File Filters PO header will be skipped and left unchanged if this option is checked e Auto replace nplurals INTEGER plural EXPRESSION in header The option allows OmegaT to override the specification in the PO file header and use the default for the selected target language XHTML Files e Add or rewrite encoding declaration in HTML and XHTML files frequently the target files must have the encoding character set different from the one in the source file whether it is explicitly defined or implied Using this option the translator can specify whether the target files are to have the encoding declaration included For instance if the file filter specifies UTF8 as the encoding scheme for the target files selecting Always will assure that this information is included in the translated files Translate the following attributes the selected attributes will appear as segments in the Editor window Start a new paragraph on the lt br gt HTML tag will constitute a paragraph for segmentation purposes Skip text matching regular expression the text matching the regular expression gets skipped Itis shown rendered red in the tag validator Text in source segment that matches is shown in italic Do not translate the content attribute of meta tags The following meta tags will not be translated Do not translate the content of tags with the following attribute key value pairs
88. earch term run for example would match words run runs and running e matches any single character For instance run would match the word runs and runn in the word running The matches will be displayed in bold blue Note that and have special meaning in regular expressions so wild card search as described here applies to exact and keyword search only see below 3 Search methods and options Select the method using the radio buttons The following search methods are available exact search Search for segments containing the exact string you specified An exact search looks for a phrase i e if several words are entered they are found only if they occur in exactly that sequence Searching for open file will thus find all occurrences of the string open file but not file opened or open input file keyword search Search for segments containing all keywords you specified in any order Select keyword search to search for any number of individual full words in any order OmegaT displays a list of all segments containing all of the words specified Keyword searches are similar to a search with all of the words in an Internet search engine such as Google AND logic Using keyword search with open file will thus find all occurrences of the string open file as well as file opened open input file file may not be safe to open etc regular expressions The search string will be treated as a regular expression
89. ee next section for details Later after you have accepted the license agreement the setup program asks you whether you wish to create a folder in the start menu and whether you wish to create a shortcut on the desktop and in the quick launch bar you can create these shortcuts later by dragging OmegaT exe to the desktop or to the start menu to link it from there The last frame offers you to have a look at the readme and changes files for the version you have installed 1 3 Running OmegaT Once Omegat is installed you can click on OmegaT jar to launch it directly or you can launch it directly from the command line The simplest way to launch OmegaT however is to execute the OmegaT exe program The options for the program start up in this case will be read from the OmegaT 4J ini file which resides in the same folder as the exe file and which you can edit to reflect your setup The following example for the INI file reserves 1GB of memory requests French as the user language and Canada as the country OmegaT exe runtime configuration To use a parameter remove the before the Memory Xmx1024M Language Duser language FR Country Duser country CA 1 4 Upgrading OmegaT This information applies only to the Traditional Windows versions of OmegaT It does not apply to the Web Start versions which are upgraded automatically nor to cross platform versions installed on Windows Installing and running Omeg
90. egaT introduction 1 OmegaT highlights OmegaT is a free multi platform Computer Aided Translation tool with the following highlights Translation memory OmegaT stores your translations in a translation memory file At the same time it can use memories files from previous translations for reference Translation memories can be very useful in a translation where there are numerous repetitions or reasonably similar segments of text OmegaT uses translation memories to store your previous translations and then suggest likely translations for the text you are currently working on These translation memories can be very useful when a document that has already been translated needs to be updated Unchanged sentences are automatically translated while updated sentences are shown with the translation of the most similar older sentence Modifications to the original document are thus handled with greater ease If you are supplied with previously created translation memories for example by your translation agency or your client OmegaT is able to use these as reference memories OmegaT uses the standard tmx file format to store and access translation memories which guarantees that you can exchange your translation material with other CAT applications supporting this file format Terminology management Terminology management is important for translation consistency OmegaT uses glossaries containing translations of single words or small phrase
91. egaT subscribe yahoogroups com To get involved in the OmegaT development effort you can join the developer group via the web or by sending an email to omegat development request lists sourceforge net mailto omegat development request list sourceforge net subject subscribe with subscribe as the subject line To translate OmegaT s user interface user manual or other related documents first read the Localizing and Customizing OmegaT http www omegat org en howtos localizing omegat php guide and join the OmegaT translators group via web or by sending an email to omegat l10n request lists sourceforge net mailto omegat development request lists sourceforge net subject subscribe with subject subscribe To support the OmegaT project financially If you would like to help support the continued development of OmegaT it would be very much appreciated click on this link to go to the OmegaT PayPal account https www paypal com cgi bin webscr cmd _s xclick amp hosted_button_id 9UB6Y2BBF99LL 107 Appendix H Shortcuts customization 1 Shortcuts customization Most of the items that appear in the main menu can have a new shortcut assigned You can change the already assigned shortcuts and add new shortcuts by putting a shortcut definition file in your OmegaT preferences folder see User files location The shortcut definition file must be named MainMenuShortcuts properties and must contain at most one shortcut defini
92. egment if it was previously before the segment and to the end of the segment if it was previously after it Table B 1 Key behavior in the editor Key combination Action Left one char left but not further than the beginning of segment Right one char right but not further than the end of segment Ctrl Left one word left but not further than the beginning of segment Ctri Right one word right but not further than the end of segment PgUp page up through the document PgDn page down through the document Home move to the beginning of the line in the segment End move to the end of the line in the segment Ctri Home move to the start of the segment Ctri End move to the end of the segment Ctrl PgUp move to the start of the document Mac Cmd PgUp Ctrl PgDn move to the end of the document Mac Cmd PgDn Backspace remove char before cursor Delete remove char after cursor Ctrl Backspace remove chars up to the start of the current word Mac Alt Backspace Ctrl Delete remove chars up to the start of next word Mac Alt Delete Ctrl Enter open previous segment Mac Cmd Enter Ctri A select complete segment Mac Cmd A Ctrl Shift 0 RTL LTR switch These keys behave differently when the cursor is outside the editable segment e Home cursor to the beginning of the active segment End cursor to the end of the active segment e Backspace nothi
93. encoding Source and target encoding fields use combo boxes with all supported encodings included lt auto gt leaves the encoding choice to OmegaT This is how it works e OmegaT identifies the source file encoding by using its encoding declaration if present HTML files XML based files e OmegaT is instructed to use a mandatory encoding for certain file formats Java properties etc e OmegaT uses the default encoding of the operating system for text files 3 3 Target filename Sometimes you may wish to rename the files you translate automatically for example adding a language code after the file name The target filename pattern uses a special syntax so if you wish to edit this field you must click Edit and use the Edit Pattern Dialog If you wish to revert to default configuration of the filter click Defaults You may also modify the name directly in the target filename pattern field of the file filters dialog The Edit Pattern Dialog offers among others the following options e Default is filename full filename of the source file with extension in this case the name of the translated file is the same as that of the source file e nameOnly allows you to insert only the name of the source file without the extension e extension the original file extension e targetLocale target locale code of a form xx_YY e targetLanguage the target language and country code together of a form XX YY e targetLangu
94. engine which processes the input text in stages as in an assembly line de formatting morphological analysis part of speech 81 Machine Translation disambiguation shallow structural transfer lexical transfer morphological generation and re formatting It is possible to use Apertium to build machine translation systems for a variety of language pairs to that end Apertium uses simple XML based standard formats to encode the linguistic data needed either by hand or by converting existing data which are compiled using the provided tools into the high speed formats used by the engine 6 Machine translation trouble shooting If there s nothing appearing in the Machine Translate pane then check the following Are you online You need to be online to be able to use an MT tool What is the language pair you need Check if the selected service offers it Google Translate does not work have you applied Translate API service https developers google com translate v2 faq Note that Google Translate service is not free of charge see chapter Installing and Running runtime parameters for more on that Google Translate returned HTTP response code 403 check that the 38 characters key entered in the pinfo list file is correct Check that Translate API service https developers google com translate v2 faq has been activated Google Translate does not work with the Google API key entered as requested Check in Op
95. ent or translation agency When you move to the next segment the first fuzzy match the one with the best matching percentage is automatically selected You may select a different match by pressing Ctrl 2 3 4 or 5 Of course pressing Ctrl 5 will have no effect if there is no match 5 To use the selected match in your translation use Ctrl R to replace the target field with the match or use Ctrl I to insert it at the cursor position The matching percentage is roughly equivalent to taking the number of common words in the matched and the matching segment and dividing by the number of words in the longer 18 The user interface of the two The selected fuzzy match is highlighted in bold words that are missing in the segment you are translating are colored blue and words adjacent to the missing parts green In the above example the source segment is Context menu command The top match is 100 because all words match So do the next two matches and the match 4 is similar but different The line with the matching percentage also includes the name of the translation memory containing the match If there s no file name displayed the source is the internal project translation memory Orphan segments the match 2 describe segments in the default project translation memory that have no corresponding source segment There are actually three match estimates available 66 66 30 in the case of the match 4 above They are defined as follo
96. er does not accept external Internet links 24 Chapter 5 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts 1 Main Menu All of OmegaT s functions are available through the menu bar at the top of the Editor window Most functions are also available via keyboard shortcuts Shortcuts are activated by pressing Ctrl and a letter Some shortcuts involve other keys For readability purposes letters are written in uppercase here Ctrl is used on Windows UNIX and UNIX like operating systems with keyboards featuring a Ctrl or Control key Mac users should instead use Cmd key instead The Cmd key either has a command label or an apple symbol on Apple keyboards You can customize existing shortcuts or add new ones according to your needs See Appendix Shortcuts Customization Table 5 1 Main Menu Project Edit Go to View Tools Options Help 1 1 Project Table 5 2 Project menu New Creates and opens a new project The dialog to create a project is the same as to edit the project See Chapter 6 Project properties Open Ctri O Opens a previously created project Import Source Files Copies the selected files to the source folder and reloads the project to load the new files Import From MediaWiki Imports units from MediaWiki pages based on the URL entered Reload F5 Reloads the project to take external changes in source files legacy translation memories glossaries and project settings into
97. ernet pages written in MediaWiki by clicking on Import from MediaWiki button and providing the corresponding URL 3 2 Search window You can use the search window to find specific segments in a project You can also have several search windows open simultaneously To open a new search window use Ctrl F in the Main window The search window consists of a text field for search strings or keywords flags and radio buttons for setting up the search and a display area containing the results of the search See the chapter Searches for more information about the search window 3 3 Tag validation The tag validation window detects and lists any tag errors and inconsistencies in the translation Open the window with Ctrl T The window features a 3 column table with a link to the segment and its source and target contents Figure 4 6 Tag validation window At this point all text outside the target field is protected and cannot be modified You must type your translation between the tags lt c0 gt segment 0001 gt lt c0 gt and lt c1 gt lt end segment lt c1 gt overwriting the source text To display the User Manual press Um das Benutzerbuch zu zeigen dr cken Sie F1 1327 F1 or use the menu lt s0 gt Help gt oder benutzen Sie Men sO gt Hilfe Wang1024 User Manuals s0 gt Benutzerhandbuchs s0 gt amp U At this point all text outside the target field is protected and cannot be modified You must type
98. es and complete texts between an ever growing number of languages At the time of writing the list includes more than 50 languages from Albanian to Yiddish including of course all the major languages The current version of the service is based on usage with the price of 20 USD per million characters at the time of writing Important Google Translate API v2 requires billing information for all accounts before you can start using the service see Pricing and Terms of Service https developers google com translate v2 pricing hl en US for more To identify yourself as a valid user for the Google services you use your private unique key sent to you by Google when you have registered for the service See chapter Installing and Running section Launch command arguments for details on how to add this key to the OmegaT environment The quality of the Google Translate translation depends on one side on the reservoir of target language texts and the availability of their bilingual versions on the other hand on the quality of the models built It is pretty much certain that while the quality may be insufficient in some cases it will definitely get better with time and not worse 3 OmegaT users and Google Translate The OmegaT user is not forced to use Google Translate If used neither the user s decision to accept the translation nor the final translation are made available to Google The following window shows an example of a the English sourc
99. es involved to a different folder reserved just for use by OmegaT 85 Chapter 21 Miscellaneous subjects 1 OmegaT Console Mode Note Of interest for advanced users only The purpose of the console i e command line mode is to permit the use of OmegaT as translation tool in a scripting environment When launched in console mode no GUI is loaded it will work therefore on any console and the given project is automatically translated An example would be a software project with GUI localized in a number of languages Using the console mode one can make generating a localized interface a part of the build process 1 1 Prerequisites To run OmegalT a valid OmegaT project must be available The location is irrelevant since it must be specified explicitly on the command line at launch If you need non standard settings the corresponding configuration files filters conf and segmentation conf must be present This can be achieved in two ways Run OmegaT normally with the GUI and set the settings If you start OmegaT in console mode it will use the settings you configured If you are unable to run OmegaT normally no graphical environment available copy the settings files from some other OmegaT installation on another machine to a specific folder The location does not matter since you can add it to the command line at launch see below The relevant files filters conf and segmentation conf can be found in the user ho
100. evision status etc less reliable For translation memories in folders with a name penalty xxx with xxx between O and 100 matches will be degraded according to the name of the folder a 100 match in any of TMs residing in a folder called Penalty 30 for instance will be lowered to a 70 match The penalty applies to all three match percentages matches 75 80 90 will in this case be lowered to 45 50 60 Optionally you can let OmegaT have an additional tmx file OmegaT style anywhere you specify containing all translatable segments of the project See pseudo translated memory below Note that all the translation memories are loaded into memory when the project is opened Back ups of the project translation memory are produced regularly see next chapter and project_save tmx is also saved updated when the project is closed or loaded again This means for instance that you do not need to exit a project you are currently working on if you decide to add another ancillary TM to it you simply reload the project and the changes you have made will be included The locations of the various different translation memories for a given project are user defined see Project dialog window in Project properties Depending on the situation different strategies are thus possible for instance several projects on the same subject keep the project structure and change source and target folders Source source orderl target target orderl etc
101. f the rules in the Options gt Tag validation window 56 Working with formatted text JE Tag Validation Options x4 OmegaT can also check for programming variables printf function variables like s Please select which behaviour is appropriate Full checking can lead to false positives in normal texts Do not check printf variables Check simple printf variables e g s d 9 Check all printf variables e g Yos s Check simple java MessageFormat patterns e g 0 Custom tag s regular expression Fragment s that should be removed from translation regular expression Cancel The behaviour stated here applies to all the source files and not just to some of the file types like formatted text Printf variables do not check check simple check all OmegaT can check that programming variables like Yos for instance in the source exist in the translation You can decide not to check at all check for simple printf variables like Yos d etc or for print variables of all types Check simple java MessageFormat patterns Activating this check box will cause OmegaT to check if simple java MessageFormat tags like 07 are processed correctly Custom tag s regular expression A regular expression entered here will cause OmegaT treat the detected instances as customer tags It checks that the number of tags and their order is identical just like it is the case for omegat tags F
102. gh their original translation is still there Segmentation button The segmentation rules are generally valid across all the projects The user however may need to generate a set of rules specific to the project in question Use this button to open a dialog activate the check box Project specific segmentation rules then proceed to adjust the segmentation rules as desired The new set of rules will be stored together with the project and will not interfere with the general set of segmentation rules To delete project specific segmentation rules uncheck the check box See chapter Source Segmentation for more information on segmentation rules Hint the set of segmentation rules for a given project is stored as project omegat segmentation conf File Filters button In a similar fashion as above the user can create project specific File filters which will be stored together with the project and will be valid for the current project only To create a project specific set of file filters click on the File filter button then activate Enable project specific filters check box in the window that opens A copy of the changed filters configuration will be stored with the project To delete project specific file filters uncheck the check box Note that in the menu Options gt File Filters the global user filters are changed not the project filters See chapter File filtersfor more on the subject Hint the set of file filters for a given
103. he whole project based on the source files only You specify the TMX file to be created with pseudotranslatetmx allsegments tmx pseudotranslatetype equal empty The argument pseudotranslatetype specifies whether the target segments are to be equal to the source or left empty mode console align In this mode OmegaT will align the Java properties files found in the source folder of the project to the contents found at the specified location The resulting TMX is stored in the omegat folder under the name align tmx Additional parameter is required in this case specifying the location of the target data alignDir location of translated files alignDir must contain a translation in the target language of the project For instance if the project is EN gt FR alignDir must contain a bundle ending with fr The resulting tmx is stored in the omegat folder under the name align tmx e source pattern regexp 12 Installing and running OmegaT When mode has been used this option will specify the files to be processed automatically If the parameter is not specified all files will be processed Here s few typical examples to limit your choice XL Atm All HTML files will be translated note that the period in the usual html has to be escaped 1 as specified by the rules for regular expressions e test html Only the file test html at the root of the source folder will be translated If there are other
104. heckBoxMenul Mark Bidirectional Algorithm Control Characters viewMarkBidiCheckBoxMenultem Modification Info Display None viewDisplayModificationInfoNaneRad Modification Info Display Selected viewDisplayModificationInfoSelectedk Modification Info Display All viewDisplayModificationInfoAllRadioB 6 Tools Menu Table H 5 Tools Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Validate Tags Ctrl T toolsValidateTagsMenultem Statistics toolsShowStatisticsStandardMenulter Match Statistics toolsShowStatisticsMatchesMenulten 110 Shortcuts customization 7 Options Menu Table H 6 Options Menu Menu Item Default shortcut Menu Item Code Use TAB To Advance optionsTabAdvanceCheckBoxMenulte Always Confirm Quit optionsAlwaysConfirmQuitChe ickKBoxh Machine Translate TransTips Enable Transtips optionsTransTipsEnableMenultem TransTips Exact Match optionsTransTipsExactMatchM enulter Font optionsFontSelectionMenultem File Filters optionsSetupFileFiltersMenultem Segmentation optionsSentsegMenultem Spell checking optionsSpellCheckMenultem Editing Behavior optionsWorkflowMenultem Tag Validation optionsTagValidationMenultem Team optionsTeamMenultem External TMXs optionsExtTMXMenultem View optionsViewOptionsMenultem
105. hey are the files you deal with on a daily basis while translating e User settings files These are created when OmegaT s behavior is modified by user preference settings Losing them usually results in OmegaT reverting to its factory settings This can sometimes cause a little trouble when you are in the middle of a translation e Application files These are included in the package you download Most of them are required in order for OmegaT to function properly If for some reason these files are lost or corrupted simply download and or reinstall OmegaT to restore them all 1 Translation project files An OmegaT translation project consists of a number of files and folders When you create a translation project OmegaT automatically creates a folder with the specified name and a list of folders Figure 8 1 OmegaT project Mame de dictionary de glossary de omegat Je source di target Le tm _ omegat project Alternate locations for some of the folders can be chosen at project creation or during the translation It is therefore possible to select existing folders or create folders in locations that reflect your work flow and project management habits To change the location of folders after a project has been created open Project gt Properties in the menu or with Ctrl E and make the necessary changes In a file manager a translation project looks and acts just like any other folder In the following example the f
106. i 70 16 2 Regex UU vidrio OOO A a e dane 70 16 32 REGEX UNO eats A A A ea ee 70 16 4 Regex Classes for Unicode blocks and categories oocccconcccnnocncnnncnncnccnncnaninnnarcnnnnns 71 16 5 Regex Character Classes iinei iia cece cette enter cnet sean kaa aka AD Ea awa 71 16 6 Regex Predefined character classes ccooocccccnccccnccnncnncnnnnancnnnnnnnoncrncnnannnnnnrcnnnnacinnens 71 16 7 Regex Boundary matcher ceccccecee ee eeeee cnet eee e sean eee ee eee e nana sana eseaaeeseaeeeesaeeeaaaes 71 16 8 Regex Greedy quantifiers 0 2 0 cece cece eee e ee cnet eee e eee e eee ea eee sae eee saaeesaaa essen eeeeaaees 71 16 9 Regex Reluctant non greedy quantifiers oooccocccccncccnnnnoccnnnnnconncnnononnnnnarnnnnncnnnons 72 16 10 Regex Logical operators 00 eect cece eee ee caer eee a eee ea a eee eee e ee snare sana eseaaeesaa eee nae eeaaaes 72 16 11 Regex Examples of regular expressions in translations w wwwwwawwmawanwawa 73 A 1 ISO 639 1 639 2 Language code liSt wwwwwwwamewan wamama wanwwanu wanawania wwa zawa 89 B 1 Key behavior in the editor 20 0 0 cece ce cece eee e eee eee eee ee ana e ceca a eaaa nessa eee nase sana kunaa waa 94 HT Project MGR Ue ts e Suing EA ned ee deta 109 HZ Edt MA ii A IS eae 109 1 3 GOTO Mel ii di a a ia 110 A NO 110 HS 10018 Menu ais narra Aaa A 110 HAO PENSI Menu A A A A ee MI 111 HZ O MEU A A A A REO 111 vii Chapter 1 About Om
107. ig ibo Inupiaq ik ipk Ido io ido Icelandic is isl Italian it ita Inuktitut iu iku Japanese ja jpn Javanese jv jav Kalaallisut Greenlandic kl kal Kannada kn kan Kanuri kr kau 90 Languages ISO 639 code list Language name ISO 639 1 ISO 639 2 Kashmiri ks kas Kazakh kk kaz Khmer km khm Kikuyu Gikuyu ki kik Kinyarwanda rw kin Kirghiz Kyrgyz ky kir Komi kv kom Kongo kg kon Korean ko kor Kurdish ku kur Kwanyama Kuanyama kj kua Latin la lat Luxembourgish Ib Itz Letzeburgesch Luganda Ig lug Limburgish Limburgan li lim Limburger Lingala In lin Lao lo lao Lithuanian It lit Luba Katanga lu lub Latvian lv lav Manx gv glv Macedonian mk mkd Malagasy mg mig Malay ms msa Malayalam ml mal Maltese mt mit Maori mi mri Marathi Marathi mr mar Marshallese mh mah Mongolian mn mon Nauru na nau Navajo Navaho nv nav Norwegian Bokm l nb nob North Ndebele nd nde Nepali ne nep Ndonga ng ndo Norwegian Nynorsk nn nno Norwegian no nor Nuosu ii iii South Ndebele nr nbl Occitan oc oci 91 Languages ISO 639 code list Language name ISO 639 1 ISO 639 2 Ojibwe Ojibwa oj oji Old Church Slavonic Church cu chu Slavic Church Slavonic Old Bulgarian Old Slavonic Oromo om orm Oriya or ori Ossetian Ossetic
108. information regarding on line OmegaT resources e Languages the ISO list of languages and language codes is provided Keyboard shortcuts in the editor the list of shortcuts used in the editor e Shortcuts customization shortcuts can be customized to your personal preferences Introduction into Tokenizer and Scripting plugins e Team Projects Legal notices and Acknowledgements Keyword index an extensive keyword index is provided to help the reader find the relevant information Chapter 2 Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes 1 Set up a new project Note On an Apple Mac use the Cmd or Apple key instead of the Ctrl key To start using Omegar first create a project that will hold all your files such as your source file translation memories glossaries and eventually your translated file In the Project menu select New and type a name for your project Remember where you are creating the project because you will need to return to it later After you give your project a name the Create New Project dialog will open At the top of that dialog select your source file s language and the language that your translated file will be and click OK to continue If you are interested in other settings of this dialog you can return to it any time by pressing Ctrl E Next the Project Files dialog opens Click the Import source files to select your source file OmegaT will then copy the selected file to the source subfolder
109. inological data TBX has been approved as an international standard by LISA and ISO If you have an existing terminology handling system MultiTerm for example it is quite possible it offers the export of terminology data via TBX format Microsoft Terminology Collection http www microsoft com Language en US Terminology aspx can be downloaded in nearly 100 languages and can serve as a cornerstone IT glossary 3 How to create glossaries The project setting allows one can enter a name for a writable glossary file see beginning of this chapter Right click in the glossary pane or press Ctrl Shift G to add a new entry A dialog opens allowing you to enter the source term target term and any comments you may have Note that in the above case this is just half or even less of the story as the target language Slovenian uses declension So the inserted pojavni meni in the nominative form has to be changed to pojavnem meniju i e to the locative So it is probably faster to type the term correctly right away without bothering with the glossary and its shortcuts 77 Glossaries JE Create Glossary Entry X Enter a source term a target term and a comment Source term word Target term Wort das e s Worter e e Comment Glossary file E myFirst glossary myFirst glossary txt a Goa The contents of glossary files are kept in memory and are loaded when the project is opened or reloaded Updating a g
110. its name in the list on the left panel e Right click on a button from lt 1 gt to lt 5 gt in the bottom panel and select Add In the above example two scripts position 1 and 2 have already been added e When you left click on the number the selected script will run You can start the selected macros from the main menu as well by using their entries in the Tools menu or by pressing Ctri Alt F 1 to 5 The following scripting languages have been implemented e NetRexx http www netrexx org it supports a classic REXX syntax with no reserved keywords along with considerable additions to support object oriented programming in a manner compatible with Java s object model All existing Java class libraries can be used unchanged and without special setup at the same time a Java programmer can opt to just 105 Scripting plugin use the Rexx class from the runtime package for improved string handling in Java syntax source programs XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations is a declarative XML based language used for the transformation of XML documents The original document is not changed rather a new document is created based on the content of an existing one The new document may be serialized output by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format such as HTML or plain text XSLT is most often used to convert data between different XML schemas or to convert XML data into web pages or P
111. jno po ilja podatke nazaj na testno in yA vendorShortName za pomo pri sprejemanju in working together to keep the Web open public and accessible to all brandShortName bolje ki si prizadeva da bi splet ostal odprt javen in dostopen vsem lt Google Translate v2 gt 7 amp brandShortName is designed by Glossary 8 oO amp vendorShortName RVEDAURAQUNAME IT informacijska tehnologija ji 1 definition The formal name for a company s data a processing department Noun global community test preizkus razen e ni test umerjen vpra ajte globalna skupnost Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments Translated documents created 27 27 9319 16338 31175 103 114 The main window consists of several panes the main menu and a status bar You can change the position of any pane or even undock it to a separate window by clicking and dragging the pane by its name Depending on the pane status different signs can appear at its top right corner Note Ifyou can not see all the panes be it opened or minimized pressing Options gt Restore Main Window will restore them to the state defined in the installation Table 4 4 Pane widgets minimizes the pane so that only its name is shown at the bottom of the window 16 The user interface maximizes the pane restores the layout before the maximizing step
112. ke sure you read it before launching OmegalT It includes general information on OmegaT where to find more information how to contribute etc It has been translated into a number of languages OmegaT A text file containing two lines OmegaT Files and Folders 4 bin bash java java jar OmegaT jar Linux and OS X users may find this file useful Make it executable chmod x OmegaT from the command line after making sure you are in the OmegaT application folder You will then be able to launch OmegaT by executing this file from the command line OmegaT bat A batch file used to launch OmegaT from the Windows command line It contains just the following line java jar OmegaT jar OmegaT jar The main OmegaT application To launch OmegaT you must launch this file either from the command line or from your file manager usually by double clicking it 47 Chapter 9 Files to translate 1 File formats You can use OmegaT to translate files in a number of file formats There are basically two types of file formats plain text and formatted text 1 1 Plain text files Plain text files contain text only so their translation is as simple as typing the translation There are several methods to specify the file s encoding so that its contents are not garbled when opened in Omega Such files do not contain any formatting information beyond the white space used to align text indic
113. l X Ctrl C and Ctrl V and the GoTo segment functions 2 2 Fuzzy matches pane Figure 4 2 Matches pane J OmegaT 2 5 3 verbatim X Project Edit GoTo View Tools Options Help Editor Addons Mozilla messages po O Glossary Fuzzy Matches Ustvari primer gumba v orodni vrstici brskalnika a 4 context menu command 2 Ukaz v kontekstnem meniju Ukazv glavnem meniju lt 100 100 100 Addons Mozillalmessages po gt Ustvari element v meniju Orodja 2 Context Menu Command Ukaz v kontekstnem meniju Context menu command lt 100 100 100 Orphan segments gt Ukazv kontekstnem meniju lt segment 1291 gt 3 Context Menu Command Ustvari kontekstni meni za slike Ukazv kontekstnem meniju lt 100 100 100 C Users smo Documents My Podpora za stransko okno Dropboxiverbatim tm project_save from verbatim tmx gt Ustvari primer za stranski pano 4 Main menu command Ukazv glavnem meniju izberite prosim najprej aplikacijo lt 66 66 80 gt Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments Machine Translation roject autosaved on 12 14 PM 3480 3480 6113 6780 7563 20 25 The match viewer shows the most similar segments from translation memories both from internal project translation memory created in real time as you translate your project and from ancillary translation memories you have imported from your earlier jobs or received from your cli
114. l need to have separate repositories for different language pairs Within a given language pair it is best to keep different subjects and or clients as separate repositories as well The alternative is to have one single repository with subfolders Projectl Project2 etc and share the common material via common tm glossary and dictionary folders For the example shown here we decided for the one OmegaT project one single repository for the simplicity reasons 2 2 Importing the project to SVN repository Windows The repository is empty at this moment You create first an empty client folder on your disk Create an empty folder where you will keep your project and right click on it Select TortoiseSVN gt Checkout The following dialog appears 97 OmegaT Team Projects 62 Checkout x Repository URL of repository 6 hips el projected cota OT fom El Checkout directory F OmegaT_corner SVN_OmegaT4SL El Checkout Depth Fully recursive v Omit externals Choose items Revision HEAD revision C Revision Show log OK Cancel Help Enter the URL provided by ProjectLocker into the field URL of repository Make sure the field Checkout directory is correct i e specifies the empty folder you have created and press OK Once the operation has finished you can check the said folder it should now contain a subfolder svn and a green OK badge on its icon will show that the contents of the fo
115. lated document is created Tags generally represent some kind of formatting in the original text Simplifying the original text formatting in the source file before commencing translation greatly contributes to reducing the number of tags 3 4 Statistics The statistics window accessed via Tools gt Statistics shows the statistics of the current OmegaT project both in the summary form as well as in detail for every file to be translated The statistics shown is available as a tab separated project_stats txt file subfolder omegat ready to be loaded into a spreadsheet program for the user s convenience You can use Ctrl A Ctrl C Ctrl V to copy paste the contents Figure 4 7 project statistics JE Statistics x4 Project Statistics Segments Words Characte Total 2782 10258 Remaining 378 1238 Unique 1913 9175 Unique Remaining 156 1017 Individual File Statistics File Name browser chrome browser aboutCertError dtd browser chrome browser aboutDialog dtd browser chrome browser aboutHome dtd zi 4 Wh gt 3 5 Match statistics The match statistics are accessed viaTools gt Match Statistics The evaluation is rather CPU intensive and can be time consuming so a progress bar is shown during the calculation As far as categories are concerned the de facto industry standard of classifying matches into the following groups is used Repetitions Exact match 95 100 85 94 75 8
116. layed text is split into segments and you may scroll through the document and double click on any segment to open and edit it In the above case the segments already translated are shown in yellow One of the above segments is the current segment It is the segment that is displayed in two parts The upper part is in the source language in bold characters with a green background color the lower part is the editing field ended by a marker the marker is lt segment nnnn gt where nnnn is a number of the segment in the project Use the upper part as a reference and replace or modify the contents of the editing field with your translation Depending upon the preferred editing behavior the editing field for the untranslated segment may be empty contain the source text or contain the translation of the string most similar to the one to be translated When you move to another segment the translation is validated and stored If you want the translation to be the same as the source simply make the editing field empty by removing all the text select all with Ctrl A and delete with Del OmegaT is able to store translations that are identical to the source This is useful for documents that contain trade marks names or other proper nouns or parts in a third language that do not require translation See Translation editing for more details If you right click on the Editor pane a pop up menu opens offering Cut Copy Paste i e same functions as Ctr
117. lder are up to date In the next step we will add the OmegaT files to the local folder The following files are to be shared among the members of the team and thus have to be included in any case e the omegat project file omegat project e the translation memory omegat project_save tmx e the contents of the source folder e the project specific filters definition omegat filters xml The administrator may decide to include following folders and their contents as well tm glossary and dictionary Also ignored_words txt and learned_words txt in the omegat folder may be worth sharing and maintaining on the team level Avoid in any case adding bak files project_stats txt and project_stats_match txt in the omegat subfolder as they would without any need or profit just bloat the repository You might want to apply the same to the target folder and its contents After copying the required files into the checkout folder you will notice that its icon has changed the green OK badge has changed to a red exclamation sign signifying the change in the local copy of the repository The following two steps will bring the server version up to date e add the copied files to the local version of the repository right click on the local checkout folder and select TortoiseSVN gt Add In the dialog that opens leave all options as per default and click OK The Add Finished window similar to the one below will appear 98 OmegaT Team Projects
118. lected languages will then be installed and will eventually appear in your spell checker setup window this may take a while Copying the files manually makes sense if you already have suitable dictionary files on your system for instance as part of your Apache OpenOffice LibreOffice Firefox or Thunderbird installation It is simpler however to look for dictionaries online using the URL of online dictionaries field Figure 20 1 Spellchecker setup IE Spellchecker Setup Y Au Dictionary file folder D Translations spellcheckers Choose Dictionaries already installed de DE de de Remove de DE comb de de comb en GB en gb si Slovenian URL of online dictionaries http download services openoffice org files contrib dictionaries Install new dictionary OK Cancel y Clicking on Install new dictionary button will open the Dictionary installer window where you can select the dictionaries you want to install The names of the files must correspond to the language code of your target language as defined in the project properties dialog Project gt Properties For example if you have 83 Spell checker selected ES MX Mexican Spanish as the target language the dictionary files must be named es MX dic and es MX aff If you only have a standard Spanish dictionary available with file names es es dic and es es aff for instance you can copy these
119. like the selection above are under the GPL license The following example shows Merriam Webster 10th dictionary in action Figure 17 1 Merriam Webster dictionary use Projekt Bearbeiten Gehezu Ansicht Extras Optionen Hilfe Editor google txt O Worterbuch whenever it is a damp drizzly November in my soul and conjunction 1 used as a function word to indicate connection or whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before addition especially of items within the same class or coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every type used to join sentence elements of the same funeral I meet grammatical rank or function 2 a used as a function word to express logical and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper modification consequence antithesis or hand of me that it requires a strong moral principle supplementary explanation b used as a function word to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the to join one finite verb as go come try to another so street and methodically knocking people s hats off that together they are logically equivalent to an infinitive then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I of purpose pa 3 obsolete IF 4 used in logic to form a conjunction This is my substitute for pistol and ball lt Segment 0011 gt This is my substitute for pistol ball 1 gt noun and ball lt Segmentende gt 1 a round or roundish body or mass as a a spherical or ov
120. list of possible arguments is given below Advanced users can obtain more information on the arguments by typing man java in the terminal window User interface language Duser language XX Normally i e when OmegaT is launched without any arguments the program first detects the language of the user s operating system If a user interface in this language is available OmegaT uses it So if the user s operating system is Russian and OmegaT has been localized in Russian OmegaT is displayed with a Russian user interface Russian menus etc If the language of the user s system is not available OmegaT defaults to English This is the standard behavior The Duser language XX argument causes OmegaT to use the language specified rather than the language of the user s operating system XX in the command stands for the two digit code of the desired language To launch OmegaT with a French interface for example on a Russian operating system the command would therefore be java Duser language fr jar OmegaT jar User country Duser country XX Besides the language you can also specify the country for example CN or TW in case of the Chinese language To display the instant start guide in the desired language you need to specify both the language and the country This is necessary even if there s only one combination available like pt_BR in case of Portuguese Brazil Font antialiasing Java 1 5 only Dswing aatext true This argu
121. lossary file is thus rather simple press Ctrl Shift G and enter the new term its translation and any comments you may have ensuring you press tab between the fields and save the file The contents of the glossary pane will be updated accordingly The location of the writable glossary file can be set in the Project gt Properties dialog The recognized extensions are TXT and UTF8 Note Of course there are other ways and means to create a simple file with tab delimited entries Nothing speaks against using Notepad on Windows GEdit on Linux for instance or some spreadsheet program for this purpose any application that can handle UTF8 and that can show white space so that you do not miss the required TAB characters can be used 4 Using Trados MultiTerm Data exported from Trados MultiTerm can be used as OmegaT glossaries without further modification provided they are given the file extension tab and the source and target term fields are the first two fields respectively If you export using the system option Tab delimited export you will need to delete the first 5 columns Seq Nr Date created etc The newer versions of MultiTerm support exporting to TBX format 5 Common glossary problems Problem No glossary terms are displayed possible causes e No glossary file found in the glossary folder e The glossary file is empty e The items are not separated with a TAB character The glossary file does n
122. lp also when you are offline Privacy OmegaT Java Web Start does not save any of your information beyond the computer on which you are running it The application runs on your machine only Your documents and translation memories remain on your computer and the OmegaT project will have no access to your work or information Note that if you need or wish to use any of the launch command arguments see above you must use the normal installation 6 Starting OmegaT from the command line Normally it is not necessary to start OmegaT from the command line However the command line alternative allows the user to control and modify the program s behavior There are two ways of launching OmegaT using the command line 6 1 Opening a command line window A command line window is also referred to as a terminal window On Windows it is called an MS DOS window and is available from the Start Menu inside Programs through the MS DOS item The Mac OS X equivalent is the application Terminal located in Applications gt Utilities To launch OmegaT you must normally type two commands The first of these is cd folder where folder is the name of the folder with complete path in which your OmegaT program specifically the file OmegaT jar is located In practice this command will therefore be something like this On Windows cd C Program Files OmegaT On Mac OS X cd lt OmegaT app location gt OmegaT app Contents Resources Java
123. me folder E g C Documents and Settings User OmegaT under Windows user omegat under Linux 1 2 Launching OmegaT in console mode To launch OmegaT in console mode additional parameters must be specified at launch The most important of these is lt project dir gt and optionally config dir lt config dir gt Example gt java jar OmegaT jar path to project config dir path to config files mode console translate source pattern regexp tag validation block warn Explanation e lt project dir gt tells OmegaT where to find the project to be translated If given OmegaT launches in console mode and translates the given project e config dir lt config dir gt enables OmegaT to be instructed in which folder the configuration files are stored If not specified OmegaT reverts to default values the OmegaT folder in the user home folder or if not available the current working folder e mode console translate OmegaT launches in console mode and translates the given project 86 Miscellaneous subjects e source pattern regexp The files to be translated can be specified this way Here is an example of the regular expression test html e tag validation abort warn On abort the program is aborted when tag validation finds errors On warn the errors are printed but the program continues In all other cases no tag validation is done 1 3 Quiet option An extra command line paramete
124. ment with the suggested translation More in the chapter Machine translation 2 9 Main menu The main menu provides access to all OmegaT functions See the Main Menu appendix for a full description of all menus and menu items The most frequently used functions are accessible with keyboard shortcuts so once you become accustomed to them you will no longer need to browse through the menus while translating See chapter Menu and Keyboard shortcuts for details 2 10 Status bar The status bar displays work flow related messages at the bottom of the main window This bar gives the user feedback on specific operations that are in progress It also displays the number of fuzzy and glossary matches for the current segment 3 Other windows 3 1 Project files The Project Files window lists the project files and displays other project information It is displayed automatically when OmegaT loads a project Use Ctri L to open and Esc to close it The Project Files Window displays the following information e the list of all translatable files in the project These are the files present in the Source files folder in a format that OmegaT is able to recognize Clicking on any file will open it for translation e the file currently available in the Editor pane is highlighted with a blue background Pressing Enter will move the Editor pane to the top of the file selected 21 The user interface e File entries include their names file fil
125. ment effects anti aliasing of the fonts thereby improving their appearance e Memory assignment 10 Installing and running OmegaT XmxZZM This command assigns more memory to OmegaT By default 512 MB are assigned so there is no advantage in assigning less than this figure ZZ stands for the amount of memory assigned in megabytes The command to launch OmegaT with assignment of 1024 MB 1 gigabyte of memory is therefore java Xmx1024M jar OmegaT jar Proxy host IP address Dhttp proxyHost nnn nnn nnn nnn The IP address of your proxy server if your system uses a proxy Proxy host port number Dhttp proxyPort NNNN The port number your system uses to access the proxy server Google Translate V2 Dgoogle api key A123456789B123456789C123456789D12345678 If you have signed up for the Google Translate services enter your private Google API key here Note that the key is 38 characters long Microsoft Translator Make sure that you have a free Microsoft account You ll need this to sign in to Windows Azure Marketplace http datamarket azure com dataset bing microsofttranslator schema and use the Translator service Note that up to 2M characters per month are free of charge The two entries required are available in your account page https datamarket azure com account under Primary account key and Customer ID Dmicrosoft api client_id XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX Dmicrosoft api client_secret XXXX9XXXxX
126. move Tags When enabled all the formatting tags are removed from source segments This is useful when dealing with texts where inline formatting has no real use e g OCRed PDF bad converted odt or docx etc Only inline tags are removed so normally there should be no problem with opening the target documents Non visible formatting i e which doesn t appear as tags in the OmegaT editor is kept in the target document Statistics Opens a new window and displays the project statistics i e the project totals and totals for every file in the project Match Statistics Displays the Match Statistics for the project the number of repetitions exact matches fuzzy matches and no matches for segments words and in characters 29 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts 1 6 Options Table 5 8 Options menu Use TAB To Advance Sets segment validation key to Tab instead of the default Enter This option is useful for some Chinese Japanese or Korean character input systems Always Confirm Quit The program will see confirmation before closing down Machine Translate Allows you to activate deactivate the Machine Translation tools offered When active Ctrl M will insert the suggestion into the target part of the current segment Glossary reserved for future use by plugins TransTips Allows you to activate deactivate TransTips feature and set its option Exact Match With Tran
127. n a menu Ukazv glavnem meniju Noun Ustvari elementv meniju Orodja context menu priro ni meni vsebinski meni F 1 definition A menu that is related to the active Context menu command window or item accessible by right clicking the mouse Ukazv kontekstnem meniju lt segment 1291 gt Noun Ustvari kontekstni meni za slike context okviru Podpora za stransko okno command ukaz ukaz A 1 definition An instruction to a computer program that when issued by the user causes an action to be carried out re apuxa Commands are usually either typed atthe keyboard or chosen Ustvari primer za stranski pano Dictionary Multiple Translations Notes Comments Machine Translation Project autosaved on 11 44 AM 3480 3480 6113 6780 7563 20 25 The word before the sign is the source term and its translation is or are the words after The vocabulary entry can have a comment added The glossary function only finds exact matches with the glossary entry e g does not find inflected forms etc New terms can be added manually to the glossary file s during translation for example in a text editor Newly added terms will not be recognized once the changes in the text file have been saved The source term does not have to be a single word item as the next example shows 76 Glossaries Figure 18 2 multiple words entries in glossaries example J Omega Project Edit Go
128. n e a ds 57 7 Hints for tags management occcconccnnnnncnnnnnccnnncnnonocononaranonnnnnnnnarnnnnnnrnnnnnrnnnrrrrnnarinns 58 13 Translation MeMorIes iia a odas 59 1 Translation memories in OmegaT cocccooccccnnncccnnccnnnncnnnnnnccnnnnanonnrnnnnncnnnnnrccnnnnarnnnnannns 59 2 Reusing translation Memories ccooccccnncccnnnnnnconcnnnnncnnnnnannnnnnnrnnnrnnnnnrnnnnnrnnnnnnannnnninnns 61 3 Sources with existing translations ww wwmmawanawwnmuwanunanuwu asada essa nese rnnt anaes 63 4 Pseudo translated MeMory c cece cece cette teen eae eee eee eee anne e aaa eeeaeeee dees renet 64 5 Upgrading translation memories cece cece eee ee eee eae e rede eee eae eee wwa ziwani 64 14 SOUFCE SEQGMENE ALON AA ai 65 OmegaT 2 6 User s Guide te Segmentation Tules an A 65 A A aa lenses muds KA Ea a aE ai akawa 66 3 Creating anew ryle Ka Ata 66 4 A few Simple exaMplesS u raea anan r a aa BIKE Ki a aAa A ASET AEE 66 TS Searches Aa aa a aa aaa 67 T Search WINO W niis san sieeve E a E EA E Aaa ara Ea a Ae EEEa 67 Z USING WIIG card ASEE WAA a as AMA 68 3 Search Methods and Options ssssessesssssssssrrssrrrrrrrerrrtrnrttertiestirsstresttesniesrnrernnennnns 68 4 Search results display inisgean e a a a a ade ta As AAEE 69 5 Filter entries in editor according to search cccoocccnnncnccnncnncnncnncnnccnnnanncnnnnnnonannnnnnnnns 69 16 Regular ExpressiON Sit A A A ean aie de 70 1 Regex tools and examples
129. ncnnncnnnnncnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnccnnnnncnns 87 di FONE Settings yc ea 87 4 PrEVENLING data OS ensaia ale ir doi 88 A Languages ISO 639 code liSt ooocooncccnonccnoncnccnncnnnnncnnonarononancnnnnnnnnn carro HA AE EEEE 89 B Keyboard shortcuts in the editor ooooccccocccccncccnnnncnnnnnnncnncnncnncnnnnncncnnnnnnonnrnnonarnnnnncnnnanicns 94 E Omegal TeaM Projects tia ii 96 1 Version control introduction occcoocccccnccnnnnnccnnnancnnncnnnnnennnnnrnnnnarnnnnnnnconcrnnnnncinnnncnns 96 2 Sharing a project USING SVN srne erma AA AE aE A RE ER 96 3 Using the team project in OmegaT ococccccncccccnncncnnccnnnnonnnnnnncnnnnanonnrnnnnnrnnnnnnncnnnnanns 100 D TokKenizer PlUG UN ia a a AA AAA UA tae 102 LAO tt a rn 102 2 Installation and command line USE ooocccccccccnnicononccnnnncnnnnnnccnnnnnnnnncnnnnnrcnnnnnccnnnnacnns 102 3 Mac OS X Specifics ii ek Bere we eae ea eee 102 4 THOUBDIESHOOUING mii a 103 E Language lool IN rr tds 104 Ls INErOdUCtON ironia atico 104 2 Installation and USC A ee ae 104 Fe SCRIPEING PIUGIN acces vote A ean ce ie Dina neice AA te a ora 105 Ds MEFOGUGTION ad AA add 105 2 Installation and USO ia A RR 105 G OmegaT onthe WED id AA AS 107 1 OmegaT sites and OmegaT SourceForge project c cooccccnnccnnnncccnnnnnncnncnnnnncnnnnnncnnnns 107 2 BUY II aa AAA WAUA ii 107 3 Contributing to OmegaT project ooccccnccccnnncnccnccnnnnonnnnnnncnnnnnnnnncnnnnnrnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnninns 107 A Shortcuts CUST
130. ndow 15 Match pane setup 19 User interface Other windows 15 Settings dialogs 15 see also Project Settings Ww Windows and panes in OmegaT Counters 17 Dictionary pane 20 Editor pane 18 Fuzzy matches pane 18 Customizing 19 Glossary pane 20 76 Machine Translation pane 21 Main window 16 Matches pane figure 18 Matches pane setup figure 19 Multiple Translations pane 20 Pane widgets 16 Project files 21 116 Index Search pane 22 Tag validation 22 see also Tags 117
131. neSuch OmegaT SL svn Message Recent messages initial commit sma Changes made double click on file for diff Check All None Versioned Added Modified Files Directories Path Extension Status E di dictionary added Le glossary added Je omegat added _ omegat project project added omegat ignored_words txt txt added omegat earned_words txt txt added Y omegat project_save tmx tmx added UB source added z gt MV Show unversioned files 81 files selected 81 files total OK Cancel Help Enter an appropriate message into the message window and press OK The Commit window will open and show the progress of the commit command It will first commit the current contents to the server repository and then update the local copy of the repository i e the contents of svn subfolder so that it is up to date with the latest repository version update local files from the local repository copy the changes received from the server repository reside within the svn subfolder but not yet in the files and folders themselves To update the local files right click on the checkout folder and select SVN Update Check the contents of the folder to confirm that the local copy of the repository and the corresponding files and folders correspond to the latest server version Name Anderungsdatum svn 10 02 2013 21 26 dictionary 01 01 2013 11 44 glossary 01 01 2013 11 44 ej omegat 10 02 2013 20
132. ng e Delete nothing Any char key if clicked outside editable segment will be ignored 94 Keyboard shortcuts in the editor The Shift key doesn t exhibit any special behavior per se when the Shift key is pressed all keys move the cursor in their usual manner except in the case of the Shift Enter combination that inserts a line break into the text System wide commands Select All Ctrl A Paste Ctrl V Cut Ctrl X copy Ctrl C Insert match Ctrl I and Insert source Ctrl Shift 1 act in principle on the text within the currently open segment only Note that you can reassign the shortcuts to your own preferences See Appendix ShortCut Customization 95 Appendix C OmegaT Team Projects 1 Version control introduction The collaborative translation offered by OmegaT is based on the functionality of version or revision control widely used by the software community to maintain control of changes to the code of a program and allow unimpeded collaboration within the development team OmegaT supports two of the popular version control systems VCS for short Apache Subversion http subversion apache org often abbreviated SVN after the command name svn and Git http git scm com The advantages of a VC system for a team of translators can be summarized as follows e Several team members can work on the translation project simultaneously without interfering with each other e They can share common
133. ng Omega It contains the specific instructions on how to install OmegaT and run it on Windows Mac OS X and Linux For advanced users the chapter describes the command line mode and its possibilities About OmegaT introduction The user interface Main Menu and Keyboard Shortcuts these two chapters are likely to be heavily consulted since they explain the user interface of OmegaT and the functions available via the main menu and the keyboard shortcuts Project properties OmegaT Files and Folders a project in the context of OmegaT is the piece of work that OmegaT as a CAT tool is able to handle This chapter describes the project properties such as the source and target languages The second of these chapters describes the various subfolders and files in a translation project and their role as well as other user and application files associated with OmegaT Editing field behavior a short chapter describing how to set up the editing behavior of the segment being translated Working with plain text and Working with formatted text these two chapters explain certain important points concerning texts to be translated such as the encoding set in the case of plain text files and tag handling in the case of formatted text Translation memories explains the role of the various subfolders containing translation memories and provides information on other important aspects relating to translation memories Segmentation translati
134. nt of the segment source text source txt e The content of the segment target text target txt e The text highlighted by the user when Ctrl Shift C is pressed or Edit gt Export Selection is selected selection txt The content of the files is overwritten either when a new segment is opened source txt and target txt or when a new selection is exported selection txt The files are unformatted plain text files The whole process can be steered and controlled via Tck Tcl based scripting See Using the OmegaT text export function http www omegat org en howtos text_export html for specifics examples and suggestions If we want to avoid any mis translations in case of segments with several possible target contents checking this check box will cause Go To Next Untranslated Segmentstop on the next such segment irrespective of whether it has already been translated or not 53 Chapter 11 Working with plain text 1 Default encoding Plain text files in most cases files with a txt extension contain just textual information and offer no clearly defined way to inform the computer which language they contain The most that Omegal can do in such a case is to assume that the text is written in the same language the computer itself uses This is no problem for files encoded in Unicode using a 16 bit character encoding set If the text is encoded in 8 bits however one can be faced with the following awkward situation instea
135. nts are displayed as the source only Clicking on a segment opens it in the Editor for modifications You can then switch back to the Search window for the next segment found for instance to check and if necessary correct the terminology You may have several Search windows open at the same time You can quickly see their contents by looking at their title it will contain the search term used 5 Filter entries in editor according to search For easier navigation in the search result set you can apply the search to the editor Press the Filter button on the bottom to limit the shown entries in the editor window to those that match the current search You can use normal navigation to go to e g the next untranslated segment that matches the search criteria NB e A search may be limited to 1000 items so if you search on a common phrase the editor then shows only those 1000 matching entries and not all entries that match the search criteria e A file might have no matching entries so it will show empty e If a search removes duplicates those duplicates will not be in the Editor To remove a filter press the Remove filter button or reload a project 69 Chapter 16 Regular expressions The regular expressions or regex for short used in searches and segmentation rules are those supported by Java Should you need more specific information consult the Java Regex documentation http download oracle com javase 1 5 0
136. obal Multiline Save Replace by Search Text aa a S pCcsi ic Inioanoion proasc cuidat vu href http java sun com j2se 1 4 2 docs api java util regex Pattern html gt http java sun com j2se 1 4 2 docs api java util regex Pattern html lt a gt lt p gt lt p gt There s a number of interactive tools available to develop and test reqular expressions The followina Result army a lt h2 gt Regular expression constructs lt n2 gt 1 lt p gt The regular expressions used ini searches and segmentation rules are those supported by Java If youg need more spe formation please consult m Insert saved regular expression Link X V Update while writing Test Copy Close Duration 0 ms Matches 1 See The Regex Coach http weitz de regex coach for Windows Linux FreeBSD versions of a stand alone tool This is much the same as the above example A nice collection of useful regex cases can be found in OmegaT itself see Options gt Segmentation The following list includes expressions you may find useful when searching through the translation memory 72 Regular expressions Table 16 11 Regex Examples of regular expressions in translations Regular expression Finds the following sta s aeiou b w b s 1 b double words Ns comma or a period followed by spaces and yet another comma or period S extra spaces after the period at the end of th
137. of your newly created project After the source file has loaded in the Editor pane you can close the Project files dialog 2 Translate the file OmegaT will present one segment at a time for you to translate After you have translated each segment press Ctrl U to move to the next untranslated segment Whenever you want to see what your translation will look like in its final format press Ctrl D to generate the translated document which will be created in the target subfolder of your project folder During translation use the Edit and Go To menus to perform various useful functions 3 Validate your tags If your source file is a formatted file e g Microsoft Word LibreOffice Writer or HTML OmegarT will convert the formatting into tags that surround the text that you translate Often documents will also have tags that have nothing to do with formatting but which are also important in the source file and in the translated file A source sentence might look like OmegalT is an easy fo use program for eager translators OmegaT however will present this sentence in the following fashion OmegaT is an lt t0 gt easy to use lt t1 gt program for lt t2 gt eager lt t3 gt translators The tags in OmegaT are greyed so they are easy to recognise They are not protected so that you can delete them enter them by hand or move them around in the target sentence However if you made mistakes when you typed the formatting tags your tr
138. oid body used in a game or sport b EARTH With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself GLOBE c a spherical or conical projectile also upon his sword projectiles used in firearms d a roundish protuberant anatomic structure especially the rounded eminence I quietly take to the ship at the base of the thumb or big toe n 7 2 a often vulgar TESTIS b plural 1 often vulgar There is nothing surprising in this NONSENSE often used interjectionally 2 often vulgar z z NERVE 3 they bu t knew it almost all men in their degree 3 a game in which a ball is thrown kicked or struck some time or other cherish very nearly the same Ree wee 4 feelings towards the ocean with me 2ko many oe pay m maha pama 4a apitch not swung at by the batter that fails to pass It s gorgeous through the strike zone b a hit or thrown ball in various games Inside and out 2 gt verb transitive senses ey a V ER TEE Google Translate Glossar unscharfe Treffer 11 24 11 24 24 74 Dictionaries 2 Problems with dictionaries e Check that your dict files are in the correct folder or in a subfolder below it Check in Project gt Properties Ctrl E Does the folder contain three files of the same name with extensions If only one file is present check its extension If it is tar bz you have forgotten to unpack untar it 75 Chapter 18 Glossaries
139. older my projects contains three OmegaT projects 43 OmegaT Files and Folders Figure 8 2 OmegaT projects and subfolders Lo my projects PEE HE TAO project JE Ulysses de yet another subdirectory but not an OmegaT project Double clicking the item with the OmegaT icon is sufficient to open the project A translation project Example Project created with the default settings will be created as a new subfolder with the following structure 1 1 Top folder Top folder of a project always contains the file OmegaT Project containing project parameters as defined in the Project properties window Project gt Properties While the translation is progressing additional files project name omegat tmx project_name levell tmx and project_name level2 tmx are created and updated during the process of translation in this folder They contain the one and the same translation memory contents in different forms to be used in future projects 1 2 Subfolder dictionary Initially empty this folder will contain dictionaries you have added to the project See chapter Dictionaries for more on this subject 1 3 Subfolder glossary This folder is initially empty It will contain glossaries you will be using in the project See chapter Glossaries for more on this subject 1 4 Subfolder omegat The omegat subfolder contains at least one and possibly several other files The most important file here is the project_save tmx tha
140. on in the Dock To access Info plist right click on OmegaT app and select Show Package Contents then open the file by right clicking on it and selecting your text editor of choice You can also cd there directly from the command line and open Info plist in a command line editor like emacs or vi You can modify the Properties as well as the VMOptions part If you wish to add values to VMOptions put a space between them For example Xmx1024M Duser language ja will launch OmegaT with 1024MB of memory and with the user interface in Japanese Installing and running OmegaT To launch multiple instances of OmegaT app double click the file JavaApplicationStub located in OmegaT app Contents MacOS Use OmegaT jar file located in OmegaT app Contents Resources ava to launch OmegaT from the command line Check Command line launching below for more information 3 5 Mac OS X goodies OmegaT app can be accessed from the Mac OS X Services You can thus select a word anywhere in OmegaT and use Services to check this word for instance in Spotlight or in Google You can also use AppleScript or Automator to create Services or scripts that will automate frequent actions 4 Other Systems This information applies to systems such as Solaris SPARC x86 x64 Linux x64 PowerPC Windows x64 4 1 Downloading the right package OmegaT is available bundled with a Oracle Java JRE for Linux Intel x86 and Windows platforms Users of other
141. on memory tools work with textual units called segments In OmegaT segments can be based on paragraphs or on segmentation rules Paragraph segmentation is less frequently used but can be useful in cases of so called creative texts The rule based segmentation is usually synonymous with sentence based segmentation A number of rule sets are provided while additional rules can be defined by the user as described in this chapter Searches and Regular expressions Searches in OmegaT can be as simple as list segments with the word kangaroo They can also be complex allowing for instance to search for segments with two or more consecutive spaces In this case the regular expression s s would be used to find and list the offending segments Regular expressions are also used extensively in the segmentation rules Dictionaries Glossaries Machine translation Spellchecker LanguageTool OmegaT supports an extensive use of dictionaries and glossaries If an Internet connection is available various MT services such as Google Translate and Microsoft Translator can be used from within OmegaT If spell checking is activated spelling mistakes and typos are recognized and can be corrected during translation The open source LanguageTool can be used to correct common grammatical and stylistic mistakes Miscellanea deals with other issues of interest such as how to avoid losing data Appendices contain the following information OmegaT on the web
142. os oss Panjabi Punjabi pa pan Pali pi pli Persian fa fas Polish pl pol Pashto Pushto ps pus Portuguese pt por Quechua qu que Romansh rm roh Kirundi rn run Romanian Moldavian ro ron Moldovan Russian ru rus Sanskrit Samskrta sa san Sardinian SC srd Sindhi sd snd Northern Sami se sme Samoan sm smo Sango sg sag Serbian sr srp Scottish Gaelic Gaelic gd gla Shona sn sna Sinhala Sinhalese si sin Slovak sk sik Slovene si Slv Somali so som Southern Sotho st sot Spanish Castilian es spa Sundanese su sun Swahili Sw swa Swati SS SSW Swedish SV swe Tamil ta tam Telugu te tel Tajik tg tgk Thai th tha Tigrinya ti tir 92 Languages ISO 639 code list Language name ISO 639 1 ISO 639 2 Tibetan Standard Tibetan bo bod Central Turkmen tk tuk Tagalog tl tgl Tswana tn tsn Tonga Tonga Islands to ton Turkish tr tur Tsonga ts tso Tatar tt tat Twi tw twi Tahitian ty tah Uighur Uyghur ug uig Ukrainian uk ukr Urdu ur urd Uzbek uz uzb Venda ve ven Vietnamese vi vie Volap k vo vol Walloon wa win Welsh cy cym Wolof wo wol Western Frisian fy fry Xhosa xh xho Yiddish yi yid Yoruba yo yor Zhuang Chuang za zha Zulu zu zul 93 Appendix B Keyboard shortcuts in the editor This short text describes key behavior in the editor pane The term Move to inside segment means that the cursor moves to the beginning of the s
143. ot have the correct extension tab or utf8 e There is no EXACT match between the glossary entry and the source text in your document for instance plurals The glossary file does not have the correct encoding e There are no terms in the current segment which match any terms in the glossary 78 Glossaries e One or more of the above problems may have been fixed but the project has not been reloaded Problem In the glossary pane some characters are not displayed properly e but the same characters are displayed properly in the Editing pane the extension and the file encoding do not match 79 Chapter 19 Machine Translation 1 Introduction As opposed to user generated translation memories as in the case of OmegaT Machine translation MT tools use rule based linguistic tools to create a translation of the source segment without the need for a translation memory Statistical learning techniques based on source and target texts are used to build a translation model Machine translation services have been achieving good and steadfastly improving results in research evaluations To activate any of the Machine Translation services go to Options gt Machine Translate and activate the service desired Note that they are all web based you will have to be on line if you want to use them 2 Google Translate Google Translate is a payable service offered by Google for translating sentences web sit
144. ous translations If sentence segmentation has been selected you can setup the rules by selecting Options gt Segmentation from the main menu Dependable segmentation rules are already available for many languages so it is likely that you will not need to get involved with writing your own segmentation rules On the other hand this functionality can be very useful in special cases where you can increase your productivity by tuning the segmentation rules to the text to be translated Warning because the text will segment differently after filter options have been changed so you may have to start translating from scratch At the same time the previous valid segments in the project translation memory will turn into orphan segments If you change segmentation options when a project is open you must reload the project in order for the changes to take effect OmegaT uses the following sequence of steps Structure level OmegaT first parses the text for structure level segmentation segmentation During this process it is only the structure of the source file that is used to produce segments For example text files may be segmented on line breaks empty lines or not be segmented at all Files containing formatting ODF documents HTML documents etc are segmented on the block level paragraph tags Translatable object attributes in XHTML or HTML files can be extracted as separate segments Sentence level After segmenting the sou
145. out the operation that creates a working copy from the repository to your local computer The server keeps the information on checkouts so that later commits See below can be performed in an orderly fashion commit once a new local version of the checked out material is ready it can be committed to the repository and thus made available to the rest of the team The server makes sure that any conflicting changes due to two members working on the same checked out contents will be resolved administrator the person responsible for the creation and maintaining of the repository i e taking care of the server side of the task To avoid any problems one person only should have these rights at least initially e user a member of the team collaborating on the common project 2 Sharing a project using SVN There are two possibilities to run an SVN server you can install SVN on your own server or you can use a hosted service When using an external service you must be aware of the possible 96 OmegaT Team Projects implications in terms of confidentiality since you are loading the original document on a server outside of your direct control Alternatively to avoid this issue you can set a private SVN server for example if you already have an Apache server that includes the software in question e g VisualSVN Once the SVN server is available project managers must locally install a SVN client in order to manage the project
146. platforms Linux PowerPC Linux x64 Solaris SPARC x86 x64 Windows x64 etc must have a running compatible Java JRE on their system to be able to use Omega Do you have a Java implementation compatible with Oracle s Java 1 5 JRE e Yes download OmegaT 2 n n Windows without JRE zip This package can be used on any platform where a Java 1 5 JRE compatible JRE is installed I don t know open a terminal and type java version If a command not found or similar message is returned it is likely that Java is not installed on your system e No obtain a Java JRE for your system see below and download OmegaT_2 n n_Without JRE zip Oracle provides JREs for Solaris SPARC x86 Java 1 5 and for Linux x64 Solaris x64 Windows x64 Java 1 5 at http www oracle com technetwork java archive 139210 html IBM provides JREs for Linux PowerPC at http www ibm com developerworks java jdk linux download htm http www ibm com developerworks java jdk linux download html Follow the installation instructions of the package you need 4 2 Installing OmegaT To install OmegaT simply unpack the OmegaT_2 n n_Without_JRE zip file This creates an OmegaT 2 n n Without JRE folder in the working folder with all the files necessary to run OmegaT 4 3 Installing convenient shortcuts Follow your system s instructions to install OmegaT shortcuts in convenient places of your choosing 4 4 Running OmegaT Once OmegaT is installed you can launch
147. ple this is the backslash character Q Nothing but quotes all characters until E E Nothing but ends quoting started by Q 70 Regular expressions Table 16 4 Regex Classes for Unicode blocks and categories The construct Matches the following p InGreek A character in the Greek block simple block http download oracle com javase 1 5 0 docs api java util regex Pattern html ubc p Lu An uppercase letter simple category http download oracle com javase 1 5 0 docs api java util regex Pattern html ubc p Sc A currency symbol P InGreek Any character except one in the Greek block negation p L amp amp p Lu Any letter except an uppercase letter subtraction Table 16 5 Regex Character classes The construct matches the following abc a b or c Simple class abc Any character except a b or c negation a zA Z a through z or A through Z inclusive range Table 16 6 Regex Predefined character classes The construct Matches the following F Any character except for line terminators d A digit 0 9 D A non digit 0 9 s A whitespace character t n xOB f r AS A non whitespace character s w A word character a zA Z_ 0 9 W A non word character w Table 16 7 Regex Boundary matchers The construct matches the
148. r most European languages and Japanese In view of the flexibility you may consider defining more exception rules for your source language in order to provide more meaningful and coherent segments 2 Rule priority All segmentation rule sets for a matching language pattern are active and are applied in the given order of priority so rules for specific language should be higher than default ones For example rules for Canadian French FR CA should be set higher than rules for French FR and higher than Default ones Thus when translating from Canadian French the rules for Canadian French if any will be applied first followed by the rules for French and lastly by the Default rules 3 Creating a new rule Major changes to the segmentation rules should be generally avoided especially after completion of the first draft but minor changes such as the addition of a recognized abbreviation can be advantageous In order to edit or expand an existing set of rules simply click on it in the top table The rules for that set will appear in the bottom half of the window In order to create an empty set of rules for a new language pattern click Add in the upper half of the dialog An empty line will appear at the bottom of the upper table you may have to scroll down to see it Change the name of the rule set and the language pattern to the language concerned and its code see Appendix A Languages ISO 639 code list for a list of l
149. r phrase you wish to search for in the Search for box Alternatively in the Editor window select a word or phrase in the editing field target text of the current segment and hit Ctrl F The word or phrase is entered in the Search for box automatically You can have several Search windows open at the same time but close them when they are no longer needed so that they do not clutter your desktop 1 2 Search location Searches are performed by default in both the source and target sections of the project but you can limit your search to just the source or the target text You may search in 67 Searches e the project only default setting e both the project and the reference translation memories in tm check Search TMs e a single file or a folder containing a set of files check Search files When searching through files as opposed to translation memories OmegaT restricts the search to files in source file formats Consequently although OmegaT is quite able to handle tmx files it does not include them in the Search files search If you turn on Advanced Options you can combine the search with the name of the author of the translation and time of the last change made 2 Using wild cards In both exact and keyword searches the wild card search characters and can be used They have the meaning familiar to Word users e matches zero or more characters from the current position in a given word to its end The s
150. r specific to console mode quiet In the quiet mode less info is logged to the screen The messages you would usually find in the status bar are not displayed Usage java jar OmegaT jar path to project mode console translate quiet 1 4 Tag validation option Another extra command line parameter specific to console mode tag validation abort warn When this parameter is added tag validation is done prior to translation aligning If the value is abort then on tag errors the errors are printed and the program stops If the value is warn then the errors are printed but OmegaT continues Usage java jar OmegaT jar path to project mode console translate tag validation abort 2 Automatic Java Properties Aligner OmegaT can align Java properties in console mode If you have the source and the target Properties files for one and the same contents in your language pair this procedure will create a corresponding tmx file for these contents Usage java jar OmegaT jar mode console align my project dir alignDir translatedFiles alignDir must contain a translation in the target language of the project E g if the project is EN gt FR alignDir must contain a bundle ending with _fr The resulting tmx is stored in the omegat folder under the name align tmx 3 Font settings In this dialog one can define the font used by OmegaT in the following windows e OmegaT main window Editor Match viewer Glossary viewer e
151. ragment s that should be removed from the translation regular expression One can enter a regular expression for unwanted contents in the target Any matches in the target segment will then be painted red i e easy to identify and correct When looking for fuzzy matches the remove pattern is ignored A fixed penalty of 5 is added if the removed part does not match some other segment so the match does not show up as 100 6 Tag group validation The validate tags function detects changes to tag sequences whether deliberate or accidental and shows the affected segments Launching this function Ctrl T opens a window containing all segments in the file containing suspected broken or bad tags in the translation Repairing the tags and recreating the target documents is easy with the validate tags function The window that opens when Ctrl T is pressed features a 3 column table with a link to the segment the original segment and the target segment 57 Working with formatted text Figure 12 1 Tag validation entry A different display font can be selected via the lt b0 gt Display Font b0 gt dialog Open it via the 1 lt il gt Settings lt il gt gt lt i2 gt Display Font lt i2 gt menu item The font type and size can be changed om the dialog n Mens kan n ander vertoonfont kies met die lt b0 gt Vertoonfont lt b0 gt dialoogkassie Kies lt il gt Opstelling lt il gt gt Vertoonfont op die kieslys Die lettertip
152. rce file into structural units OmegaT segmentation will segment these blocks further into sentences 1 Segmentation rules The process of segmenting can be pictured as follows the cursor moves along the text one character at a time At each cursor position rules consisting of a Before and After pattern are applied in their given order to see if any of the Before patterns are valid for the text on the left and the corresponding After pattern for the text on the right of the cursor If the rule matches either the cursor moves on without inserting a segment break for an exception rule or a new segment break is created at the current cursor position for the break rule The two types of rules behave as follows Break rule Separates the source text into segments For example Did it make sense was not sure should be split into two segments For this to happen there should be a break rule for when followed by spaces and a capitalized word To define a rule as a break rule tick the Break Exception check box Exception rule specify what parts of text should NOT be separated In spite of the period Mrs Dalloway should not be split in two segments so an exception rule should be established for Mrs and for Mr for Dr for prof etc followed by a period To define a rule as an exception rule leave the Break Exception check box unticked 65 Source segmentation The predefined break rules should be sufficient fo
153. reate a glossary by pressing Ctrl Shift G or copy existing glossaries to the glossary subfolder of your project folder and OmegaT will automatically look up words in them It is often useful to search for words and phrases in the source text and in your translation so press Ctrl F for the Text Search dialog at any time Fora more comprehensive introduction see OmegaT for beginners http www omegat org en tutorial OmegaT 20for 20Beginners pdf on the OmegaT web site If you need assistance with any aspect of OmegalT feel free to join the OmegaT users group http tech groups yahoo com group OmegaT Chapter 3 Installing and running OmegaT 1 Windows Users 1 1 Downloading the package Do you have a Java implementation compatible with Oracle s Java 1 5 JRE e Yes download OmegaT 2 n n Windows without JRE exe No I don t know download OmegaT_2 n n_Windows exe This package is bundled with Oracle s Java Runtime Environment This JRE will not interfere with other Java implementations that may already be installed on your system 1 2 Installing OmegaT To install OmegaT double click on the program you have downloaded At the beginning of the installation you can select the language to be used during the installation In the following window you can indicate that the language selected is to be used in OmegaT If you check the corresponding checkbox the OmegaT l4J ini file is modified to use the language selected s
154. rn When OmegaT encounters a file in its source folder it attempts to select the filter based upon the file s extension More precisely OmegaT attempts to match each filter s source filename patterns against the filename For example the pattern xhtml matches any file with the xhtml extension If the appropriate filter is found the file is assigned to it for processing Forexample by default XHTML filters are used for processing files with the xhtml extension You can change or add filename patterns for files to be handled by each file Source filename patterns use wild card characters similar to those used in Searches The character matches zero or more characters The character matches exactly one character All other characters represent themselves For example if you wish the text filter to handle readme files readme read me and readme txt you should use the pattern read 3 2 Source and Target file encoding Only a limited number of file formats specify a mandatory encoding File formats that do not specify their encoding will use the encoding you set up for the extension that matches their name For example by default txt files will be loaded using the default encoding of your operating system You may change the source encoding for each different source filename 40 File Filters pattern Such files may also be written out in any encoding By default the translated file encoding is the same as the source file
155. roblems with glossaries 78 TBX format 77 Trados MultiTerm 78 Glossaries Glossary pane 76 Installing OmegaT Linux 6 OS X 7 Other systems 8 8 Windows 5 ISO language codes 89 K Keyboard shortcuts 31 Editing 32 Goto 32 33 Other 33 Project 31 L Languages 89 Legal notices 112 For the application 112 For the documentation 112 Lucene see Tokenizer M Machine Translation 80 Apertium 81 Belazar 81 Google Translate 80 Introduction 80 Troubleshooting 82 Match Statistics 23 see also Menu Tools Matches Matches pane figure 18 Matches pane setup figure 19 Matches statistics 29 Menu 25 Edit 26 Goto 28 Help 31 Options 30 Editing behavior 52 Project 25 Tools 29 View 29 Menu Help Help browser 24 User Manual 24 Menu Options Editing Behavior 16 Editing behaviour Converting numbers 53 Empty translation 52 Exporting the current segment 53 Inserting fuzzy matches 52 Segments with alternative translation 53 Translation equal to source 53 File filters 15 Font 87 Segmentation 16 Spell checking 83 Menu Project New 3 114 Index Properties 15 Menu Tools Match statistics 15 statistics 15 Miscellanea 86 Automatic aligner for Java properties 87 Font settings 87 OmegaT console mode 86 Preventing data Loss 88 O OmegaT Team projects 96 see also Team projects OmegaT console mode 86 see also Miscellanea OmegaT on the web
156. roject 5 Upgrading translation memories Very early versions of OmegaT were capable of segmenting source files into paragraphs only and were inconsistent when numbering formatting tags in HTML and Open Document files OmegaT can detect and upgrade such tmx files on the fly to increase fuzzy matching quality and leverage your existing translation better saving you the work of doing this manually A project s tmx will be upgraded only once and will be written in upgraded form into the project save tmx legacy tmx files will be upgraded on the fly each time the project is loaded Note that in some cases changes in file filters in OmegaT may lead to totally different segmentation as a result you will have to upgrade your translation manually in such rare cases 64 Chapter 14 Source segmentation Translation memory tools work with textual units called segments OmegaT has two ways to segment a text by paragraph or by sentence segmentation also referred to as rule based segmentation In order to select the type of segmentation select Project gt Properties from the main menu and tick or untick the check box provided Paragraph segmentation is advantageous in certain cases such as highly creative or stylistic translations in which the translator may wish to change the order of entire sentences for the majority of projects however sentence segmentation is a choice to be preferred since it delivers better matches from previ
157. s a simplified bilingual dictionary for a specific domain For your reference OmegaT displays the translation of any word that is both present in the segment and registered in the glossary Translation process Imagine having to translate something from a single file to a folder containing subfolders each with a number of files in a variety of formats When you let OmegaT know the files that you need to translate it looks for the files it understands based on file filtering rules recognizes the textual parts within them splits up the text groups according to the segmentation rules and displays the segments one by one so that you can proceed with the translation OmegaT stores your translations and proposes possible translations from similar segments in registered in the translation memory files When you are ready to view the final product you can export the translated files open them in the appropriate application and view the translation in the final format 2 Summary of chapters This documentation is intended both as a tutorial and as a reference guide Here is a short summary of the chapters and their contents Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes this chapter is intended as a quick tutorial for beginners as well as people who already know CAT tools showing the complete procedure from opening a new translation project through to completing the translation Installing and running OmegaT this chapter is useful when you first begin usi
158. s are filters conf and segmentation conf and can be found in the user home folder e g C Documents and Settings User OmegaT under Windows user omegat under Linux 6 3 2 Starting in console mode To start OmegaT in console mode some extra parameters have to be passed to it on startup The most important is lt project dir gt and optionally config dir lt config dir gt Example java jar OmegaT jar path to project config dir path to config files mode console translate console createpseudotranslatetmx console align Source pattern regexp Note that all parameters start with a double character Explanation e lt project dir gt tells OmegaT where to find the project to translate If given OmegaT starts in console mode and will translate the given project e config dir lt config dir gt tells OmegaT in which folder the configuration files are stored If not given OmegaT reverts to default values OmegaT folder under user home or if unavailable the current working folder Note double character e mode OmegaT starts in console mode to perform one of the following services automatically e mode console translate In this mode OmegaT will attempt to translate the files in source with the available translation memories This is useful to run OmegaT on a server with TMX files automatically fed to a project mode console createpseudotranslatetmx In this mode OmegaT will create a TMX for t
159. s before the last editing action was taken This command does not work once the modified segment has been validated Redo Last Action Ctrl Y Restores the status before the last editing action was cancelled This command does not work once the modified segment has been validated Replace With Match Ctri R Replaces the whole target segment with the currently selected fuzzy match by default the first match is selected Insert Match Ctrl 1 Inserts the currently selected fuzzy match at the cursor position If part of the target segment has been selected this function overwrites the selected portion Replace with Machine Ctrl M Replaces the target segment Translation with the translation provided 26 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts by the selected Machine Translation service No action is taken if no Machine Translation service has been activated see Menu gt Options below Replace With Source Shift Ctrl R Replaces the whole target segment with the source Insert Source Shift Ctrl 1 Inserts the source at the cursor position Insert Source Tags Shift Ctrl T Inserts the source tags at the cursor position All the relevant tags in the source ie OmegaT as well as custom Java printf etc tags will be inserted into the current target regardless of whether they are already there or not Texts bracketed by tags are replaced by spaces lt f0 gt lt fl gt Thi
160. s is created File subfolder Contents docs All the user manual files can be found in this folder You can open them in an Internet browser to obtain access to external links images Icons and logo graphics lib Contains Java files necessary to the operation of OmegaT join html This is an ordinary html file that when opened in your Internet browser directs you to the OmegaT user group hosted on Yahoo Groups Joining is not necessary but will provide you with access to additional services such as files questionnaires and the opportunity to take part in OmegaT related discussions The group archives are public and can be viewed without subscription to the group changes txt A relatively detailed list of modifications between this version and the preceding versions license txt doc license txt The GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE This license allows you to do certain things with OmegaT including modifying and distributing it If you are interested in modifying or distributing OmegaT read this document carefully and ensure you understand its implications before doing anything If in doubt don t hesitate to ask project members directly either by sending them an e mail from the SourceForge page or by sending a public mail to the user group The GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE This license covers the documentation See above readme txt This file is very important and you should ma
161. s is text lt f0 gt lt fl gt thus will be copied as lt f0 gt lt fl gt one_space lt f0 gt lt f1 gt Export Selection Shift Ctrl C Exports the current selection to a text file for processing If no text has been selected the current source segment is written to this file When the user exits OmegaT this file is not emptied in order to be consistent with usual clipboard behavior The exported contents are copied to the file selection txt located in the User s preference files folder see Chapter 8 OmegaT Files and Folders Create Glossary Entry Shift Ctrl G Allows the user create an entry in the default glossary file Search Project Ctrl F Opens a new Search window Switch case to Shift F3 see text Changes the case of the highlighted text in the target segment to the selected option Lower case Upper case or Title case Use Shift F3 to cycle through the three alternatives If no text is selected OmegaT selects the word that contains the letter immediately to the right of the cursor Select Fuzzy Match N Ctrl N N is a digit from 1 to 5 Selects the Nth fuzzy match displayed in the match 27 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts viewer to replace or insert it to the segment The Section 2 2 Fuzzy matches pane describes the color coding in detail Use as Default Translation If there s several alternative translations availa
162. sTips activated a right click on a highlighted word in the source will open a pop up menu with the glossary entries for the word you clicked You can then click on the preferred translation to insert it into the target segment at the current position With TransTips Exact Match checked only complete words will be checked otherwise parts of words will be matched as well Font Shows the dialog to modify the text display font Users of old computers who feel window resizing is very slow can try changing the font See font settings in Miscellanea File Filters Displays the File filters dialog to configure file handling and parsing Segmentation Opens the Source segmentation dialog to configure text segmentation Spell checking Displays the Spell checker setup window to install configure and activate the spell checker Editing Behavior Displays the Translation editing dialog to configure Tag Validation For programmers Allows you to configure the Tag Validator options to check also programming variables Team Enter your name here and it will be attached to all segments translated by you External TMXs Allows the user decide how tags in foreign TMX files i e not generated by OmegaT are to be treated View Contains the option to have all source segments in bold and to mark the first non unique segment Save Allows the user selec
163. t the file named OmegaT in the unpacked folder Select it and confirm with OK e Click on the icon button then hit Browse and navigate to the images subfolder in the OmegaT application folder Select the OmegaT png icon GNOME may fail to display the icon files in the available formats and initially appear to expect an SVG file but if the folder is selected the files should appear and OmegaT png can be selected 2 4 Running OmegaT You can launch OmegaT from the command line with a script that includes start up options or you can click on OmegaT jar to launch it directly Methods differ depending on the distribution Make sure that your PATH settings are correct and that jar files are properly associated with a Java launcher Check Command line launching below for more information 3 Mac OS X Users 3 1 Downloading the package OmegaT requires Java 1 5 to run Use Software Update from the Apple menu to update your Java version Download OmegaT_2 n n_Mac zip 3 2 Installing OmegaT Double click on OmegaT_2 n n_Mac zip to unpack it This creates a folder called OmegaT The folder contains 2 files index html and OmegaT app Copy the folder to a suitable folder e g Applications Once you have done this you can delete the OmegaT_2 n n_Mac zip file it is no longer needed 3 3 Adding OmegaT to the Dock Drag and drop OmegaT app onto the Dock 3 4 Running OmegaT Double click on OmegaT app or click on its locati
164. t folder of the project to the repository folder When you begin a new project on the same subject or for the same customer navigate to the repository folder in the Project gt Properties gt Edit Project dialog and select it as the translation memory folder Note that all the tmx files in the tm repository are parsed when the project is opened so putting all different TMs you may have on hand into this folder may unnecessarily slow OmegaT down You may even consider removing those that are not required any more once you have used their contents to fill up the project save tmx file 2 1 Importing and exporting translation memories OmegaT supports imported tmx versions 1 1 1 4b both level 1 and level 2 This enables the translation memories produced by other tools to be read by OmegaT However OmegaT does not fully support imported level 2 tmx files these store not only the translation but also the formatting Level 2 tmx files will still be imported and their textual content can be seen in OmegaT but the quality of fuzzy matches will be somewhat lower OmegaT follows very strict procedures when loading translation memory tmx files If an error is found in such a file Omega will indicate the position within the defective file at which the error is located Some tools are known to produce invalid tmx files under certain conditions If you wish to use such files as reference translations in OmegaT they must be repaired or OmegaT
165. t is the working translation memory for the project Backups of this file with extension bak are added progressively to this subfolder first at the beginning of the translation session at its end and while the translation progresses This way an inadvertent data loss is averted see Preventing Data Loss in chapter Miscellanea During translation additional files may get created in this subfolder as follows stats txt contains the current statistics of the current project You can view it by selecting Tools gt Statistics ignored_words txt learned _words txt are created and used by the spell checker If you already have collected words you wish the spell checker to ignore accept you just need to copy the corresponding two files into the omegatsubfolder of your current project project_stats_match txt contains the latest project match statistics generated by Tools gt Match Statistics segmentation conf if existing it contains project specific segmentation rules if requested in Project gt Properties See Chapter Project properties 44 OmegaT Files and Folders filters xml if existing it contains project specific file filters if requested in Project gt Properties See Chapter Project properties 1 5 Subfolder source The source subfolder contains files to be translated You can add the files to it later Note that the structure of the source subfolder may take any form you like
166. t the interval in minutes and seconds between consecutive automatic saves of the project The minimum is 10 seconds 30 Menu and Keyboard shortcuts Proxy login Enter your user name and your password if you use a proxy to access your projects Restore Main Window Restores the components of the main OmegaT window to their default state Use this feature when you have undocked moved or hidden one or more components and you are unable to restore the desired arrangement It can also be used when panes do not appear as expected following an OmegaT upgrade 1 7 Help Table 5 9 Help menu User Manual F1 Opens Help browser displaying this manual in a separate window About Displays copyright credits and license information 2 Keyboard shortcuts The following shortcuts are available from the main window When another window is on the foreground click on the main window to bring it to the foreground or press Esc to close the other window Shortcuts are activated by pressing Ctrl and a letter Some shortcuts involve other keys For readability purposes letters are written in uppercase here Ctrl is used on Windows UNIX and UNIX like operating systems with keyboards featuring a Ctrl Control key Mac users should instead use the cmd key On Apple keyboards the cmd key either has a command label or an Apple icon on it e Project management e Editing e Moving
167. t und You can also instruct the spell checker to ignore all the occurrences of the mis spelled word or add it to the dictionary 3 Hints If the spell checker is not working then make sure first that the check box Automatically check the spelling of text in the spell checker dialog Options gt Spell checking is checked Also check that the target language code of your project against the available vocabularies in the setup window The spell checker uses the target language code to determine the language to be used if the target language is Brazilian Portuguese PT BR the subfolder with vocabularies must contain the two vocabulary files called pt_br aff and pt_br dic If you have already translated a large body of text and then realize the target language code of the project does not match the spell checker s language code you specified pt_BR as the language but there are no pt_BR vocabularies for instance you can simply copy the two corresponding files and rename them e g from pt_PT aff and pt_PT dic to pt_BR aff and pt_BR dic Of course it is much wiser to take a short break and download the correct versions of the spell checker Note that Remove physically removes the selected vocabularies If they are used by some other application on your system they will disappear from that application too If for 84 Spell checker whatever reason you need to do this from time to time it may make sense to copy the fil
168. ter types their encoding and the number of segments each file contains e the total number of segments the number of unique segments in the whole project and the number of unique segments already translated are shown at the bottom The set of Unique segments is computed by taking all the segments and removing all duplicate segments The definition of unique is case sensitive Run and run are treated as being different The difference between Number of segments and Number of unique segments provides an approximate idea of the number of repetitions in the text Note however that the numbers do not indicate how relevant the repetitions are they could mean relatively long sentences repeated a number of times in which case you are fortunate or it could describe a table of keywords not so fortunate The project_stats txt located in the omegat folder of your project contains more detailed segment information broken down by file Modifying the segmentation rules may have the effect of modifying the number of segments unique segments This however should generally be avoided once you have started translating the project See the chapter Segmentation rules for more information Adding files to the project You can add source files to the project by clicking on the Import Source Files button This copies the selected files to the source folder and reloads the project to import the new files You can also add source files from Int
169. text being translated OmegaT acts as defined in the Options gt Editing Behavior dialog window For instance if the default is accepted the translation from the ancillary TM is accepted and prefixed with fuzzy so that the translator can review the translations at a later stage and check whether the segments tagged this way have been translated correctly see the Editing behavior chapter 59 Translation memories It may happen that translation memories available in the tm subfolder contain segments with identical source text but differing targets TMX files are read sorted by their names and segments within a given TMX file line by line The last segment with the identical source text will thus prevail Note of course it makes more sense to avoid this to happen in the first place Note that the TMX files in the tm folder can be compressed with gzip tm auto folder If it is clear from the very start that translations in a given TM or TMs are all correct one can put them into the tm auto folder and avoid confirming a lot of fuzzy cases This will effectively pre translate the source text all the segments in the source text for which translations can be found in those auto TMs will land in the main TM of the project without any user intervention tm penalty xxx folders Sometimes it is useful to distinguish between high quality translation memories and those that are because of the subject matter client r
170. the Mac OS X OmegaT app package the tokenizer installation described above applies right click on OmegaT app to find the location of OmegaT jar but you ll need to specify the tokenizer names in the info plist that contains the Java launch options Follow the instructions above to access the info plist file and edit it so that it looks as follows for the example we just gave lt key gt VMOptions lt key gt lt string gt Xmx1024M lt string gt lt key gt Arguments lt key gt lt array gt lt string gt ITokenizer org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneCJKTokenizer lt string gt 102 Tokenizer plugin lt string gt ITokenizerTarget org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneFrenchTokenizer lt string gt lt array gt 4 Troubleshooting To make sure that the tokenizers are being used open a project and check the log information from the console With the example above it should look like that 84528 Info Source tokenizer org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneC KTokenizer 84528 Info Target tokenizer org omegat plugins tokenizer LuceneFrenchTokenizer The numbers on the left are likely to be different on your system so make sure that the source and target tokenizer names specified in the start up options correspond to what the log is showing If the tokenizers are not properly launched the log will look like this 12719 Info Source tokenizer org omegat core matching Tokenizer 12719 Info Target tokenizer org omegat core m
171. the root folder of your OmegaT project see the above description You can regard these three tmx files omegat tmx levell tmx and level2 tmx as an export translation memory i e as an export of your current project s content in bilingual form Should you wish to reuse a translation memory from a previous project for example because the new project is similar to the previous project or uses terminology which might have been used before you can use these translation memories as input translation memories i e for import into your new project In this case place the translation memories you wish to use in the tm or tm auto folder of your new project in the former case you will get hits from these translation memories in the fuzzy matches viewer and in the latter case these TMs will be used to pre translate your source text By default the tm folder is below the project s root folder e g MyProject tm but you can choose a different folder in the project properties dialog if you wish This is useful if you frequently use translation memories produced in the past for example because they are on the same subject or for the same customer In this case a useful procedure would be Create a folder a repository folder in a convenient location on your hard drive for the translation memories for a particular customer or subject Whenever you finish a project copy one of the three export translation memory files from the roo
172. tion per line Empty lines are accepted and comment lines should start with Anything after the will be ignored Once the MainMenuShortcuts properties file is modified OmegaT must be relaunched to take the new shortcuts into account The shortcut definition syntax is the following lt menu item code gt lt shortcut gt where lt menu item code gt is a code taken from the tables below and lt shortcut gt is a combination of pressed keys specified by the user lt shortcut gt must be of the following form 0 or more lt modifier gt followed by 0 or 1 lt event gt followed by 1 lt key gt where e lt modifier gt can be shift control ctrl meta alt altGraph e lt event gt can be typed pressed released e and lt key gt can be any key available on your keyboard For example in the default OmegaT shortcuts one can find e projectOpenMenultem ctrl O e editCreateGlossaryEntryMenultem ctrl shift G The first is the shortcut for Open Project the second for Create Glossary Entry If you want to use Shift Ctri O to open a project modify your MainMenuShortcuts properties as follows projectOpenMenultem shift ctrl O If you are on a Mac and you want to add a Shift Command S shortcut to Tools gt Statistics add the following line to your MainMenuShortcuts properties toolsShowStatisticsStandardMenultem shift meta S Save then the file and relaunch OmegaT Your new shortcuts should now appear next
173. tions gt Editing Behavior OmegaT offers you the following alternatives The source text You can have the source text inserted automatically into the editing field This is useful for texts containing many trade marks or other proper nouns you which must be left unchanged Leave the segment empty OmegaT leaves the editing field blank This option allows you to enter the translation without the need to remove the source text thus saving you two keystrokes Ctrl A and Del Empty translations are now allowed They are displayed as lt EMPTY gt in the Editor To create one right click ina segment and select Set empty translation The entry Remove translation in the same pop up menu also allows to delete the existing translation of the current segment You achieve the same by clearing the target segment and pressing Enter Insert the best fuzzy match OmegaT inserts the translation of the string most similar to the current source if it is above the similarity threshold that you have selected in this dialog The prefix per default empty can be used to tag translations done via fuzzy matches If you add a prefix for instance fuzzy you can trace those translations later to see they are correct 52 Editing behavior The check boxes in the lower half of the dialog window serve the following purpose Attempt to convert numbers when inserting a fuzzy match Allow the translation to be equal to source Export the segment
174. tions gt Machine Translate that Google Translate V2 is checked Google Translate V2 reports Bad request check the source and target languages for your project Having no languages defined elicits this kind or a response 82 Chapter 20 Spell checker OmegaT has a built in spell checker based on the spelling checker used in Apache OpenOffice LibreOffice Firefox and Thunderbird It is consequently able to use the huge range of free spelling dictionaries available for these applications 1 Installing spelling dictionaries Before the spell check function can be used a Suitable dictionary or dictionaries i e for your target language must be installed To install spelling dictionaries follow this procedure In your file manager create a new folder in a suitable location in which to store spelling dictionaries D Translations spellcheckers in the example below In OmegaT select Options gt Spell Checking then click Choose beside the Dictionary file folder field Navigate to and select the folder you created for dictionaries Place the dictionary files you wish to use in this folder There are essentially two ways in which you can do this You can either copy files manually i e from elsewhere on your system using your file manager or you can use OmegaT s Install new dictionary function to provide a list of available dictionaries to select from Note that the Install function requires an Internet connection The se
175. ts 1 000 gt Advanced Options 59 gt To stop Private Browsing select amp basePBMenu label amp gt 8privateBrowsingCmd stop label or a close amp brandShortName Zasebno brskanje lahko izklju ite tudi z izbiro amp basePBMenu label amp gt amp privateBrowsingCmd stop label ali z zapiranjem 8brandShortName a 60 gt To start Private Browsing you can also select amp basePBMenu label amp gt amp privateBrowsingCmd start label Zasebno brskanje lahko vklju ite tudi z izbiro amp basePBMenu label amp gt amp privateBrowsingCmd start label 2147 gt Show tab previews in the Windows taskbar Prika i predoglede zavihkov v opravilni vrstici Windows 2176 gt This web page at lt span id malware_sitename gt has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences Spletna stran na naslovu lt span id malware_sitename gt je bila prijavljena kot napadalna stran in je bila zavrnjena na podlagi va ih varnostnih nastavitev 2634 gt MozTestPilot on Twitter vr Location Select Folder __ Search files Recursive search Remove Filter Filter Close Note The above search finds all target segments that contain characters rather improbable in the target i e Slovenian language 1 1 Searching OmegaT provides a powerful range of search functions Open the Search window with Ctrl F and enter the word o
176. undocks the pane from the main window puts the pane back within the main window You can overlap panes if desired When this is done the panes display a tab at the top The separators between the panes can be dragged to resize panes Should you lose track of your changes to the user interface you can use Options gt Restore the main window any time to return to the original layout The counters in the lower right corner keep track of the progress of the translation numbers in the left hand column refer to the figure above Table 4 5 Main Window counters 27 27 number of segments translated vs total for the current file 9319 16338 number of unique segments translated vs total in the project 31175 total number of segments including repeats in the project 103 114 number of source and target characters in the current segment From a practical point of view the most important pair of numbers is the second pair it tells how much you have done so far in relation to the total or second number The project in the example is evidently finished as all the unique segments have been translated 17 The user interface 2 1 Editor pane This is where you type and edit your translation The Editor pane displays the text of the partially translated document the text already translated is displayed in translation while the untranslated text is displayed in the original language The disp
177. ure 1 Close the project 2 Rename the current project_save tmx file e g to project_save tmx temporary 3 Select the backup translation memory that is most likely e g the most recent one or the last version from the day before to contain the data you are looking for 4 Copy it to project_save tmx 5 Open the project 1 3 tmx files and language Tmx files contain translation units made of a number of equivalent segments in several languages A translation unit comprises at least two translation unit variants TUV Either can be used as the source or target The settings in your project indicate which is the source and which the target language OmegaT thus takes the TUV segments corresponding to the project s source and target language codes and uses them as the source and target segments respectively OmegaT recognizes the language codes using the following two standard conventions e 2 letters e g JA for Japanese or e 2 or 3 letter language code followed by the 2 letter country code e g EN US See Appendix A Languages ISO 639 code list for a partial list of language and country codes If the project language codes and the tmx language codes fully match the segments are loaded in memory If languages match but not the country the segments still get loaded If neither the language code not the country code match the segments will be ignored TMX files can generally contain translation units with several candid
178. ved If you believe that you have lost translation data you can use the following procedure to restore the project to its most recently saved state usually not older than approximately 10 minutes or so 1 close the project 2 rename the current project_save tmx file e g to project_save tmx temporary 3 select the backup translation memory that is the most likely to contain the data you are looking for 4 rename it project_save tmx 5 open the project To avoid losing important data Make regular copies of the file omegat project_save tmx to backup media such as CD or DVD Until you are familiar with OmegaT create translated files at regular intervals and check that the translated file contains the latest version of your translation Take particular care when making changes to the files in source while in the middle of a project If the source file is modified after you have begun translating OmegaT may be unable to find a segment that you have already translated Use these Help texts to get started Should you run into problems post a message in the OmegaT user group http tech groups yahoo com group Omegat Do not hesitate to post in the language you feel the most familiar with 88 Appendix A Languages ISO 639 code list Please check the ISO 639 Code Tables http www sil org ISO639 3 codes asp for further and up to date information about language codes Table A 1 ISO 639 1 639 2 Language code list
179. will report an error and fail to load them Fixes are trivial operations and OmegaT assists troubleshooting with the related error message You can ask the user group for advice if you have problems OmegaT exports version 1 4 TMX files both level 1 and level 2 The level 2 export is not fully compliant with the level 2 standard but is sufficiently close and will generate correct matches in other translation memory tools supporting TMX Level 2 If you only need textual information and not formatting information use the level 1 file that OmegaT has created 2 2 Creating a translation memory for selected documents In case translators need like to share their TMX bases while excluding some of their parts or including just translations of certain files sharing the complete ProjectName omegat tmx is 62 Translation memories out of question The following recipee is just one of the possibilities but simple enough to follow and without any dangers for the assets Create a project separate for other projects in the desired language pair with an appropriate name note that the TMXs created will include this name Copy the documents you need the translation memory for into the source folder of the project Copy the translation memories containing the translations of the documents above into tm auto subfolder of the new project Start the project Check for possible Tag errors with Ctrl T and untranslated segments with Ctrl
180. ws e match percentage when the tokenizer plugin is used e default OmegaT match number of matched words with numerals and tags ignored divided by the total word count e OmegaT match including numbers tags 2 2 1 Customizing the Fuzzy matches pane In Options gt External TMXs a number of variables allow to configure the display of the match pane Figure 4 3 Matches pane setup E External TMX Options x Please select how tags of non OmegaT TMXs should be displayed IV Display tags V Use XML for standalone tags e g lt i gt Match display template id fuzzyFlag sourceText targetText lt score noStemScore S adjustedScore filePath gt Template variables id y Insert cna The figure above shows the default match display template The contents can be customized using following variables Table 4 6 Match pane setup id Number of the match from 1 to 5 sourceText Source text of the match targetText Target text of the match diff String showing the differences between the source and the match Hint use this if the text that you are translating has been updated score Percentage with tokenizer noStemScore Percentage without numbers and tags adjustedScore Percentage adjusted fileNameOnly Name of the TMX filePath Full path of the TMX fileShortPath Path of the TMX starting from the root of tm
181. y Thomas Huriaux Hans Peter Jacobs Ibai Lakunza Velasco Guido Leenders Aaron Madlon Kay Fabi n Mandelbaum John Moran Maxym Mykhalchuk Arno Peters Henry Pijffers Briac Pilpr Tiago Saboga Andrzej Sawuta Benjamin Siband Yu Tang Rashid Umarov Antonio Vilei Martin Wunderlich and Michael Zakharov Distribution and modifications OmegaT is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or if you prefer any later version Warranty OmegaT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more detail 112 Appendix J Acknowledgements 1 Thank you all Whatever the inconsistencies omissions and straightforward errors you may find in the present version declare them all my own This manual however would not be possible without the help and support from a number of people Explicit thanks to Marc Prior correcting my first draft was an act of love for OmegaT and the English language Didier Briel could not do without Didier s patient and persistent help with DocBook intricacies Not to mention his care and diligence keeping repositories intact and in good order Samuel Murray for the introductory chapter Learn to use
182. y project folders keep in mind that this will not move existing files from old folders to the new location 37 Chapter 7 File Filters OmegaT features highly customizable filters enabling you to configure numerous aspects File filters are pieces of code capable of e Reading the document in some specific file format For instance plain text files Extracting the translatable content out of the file e Automating modifications of the translated document file names by replacing translatable contents with its translation To see which file formats can be handled by OmegaT see the menu Options gt File Filters Most users will find the default file filter options sufficient If this is not the case open the main dialog by selecting Options gt File Filters from the main menu You can also enable project specific file filters which will only be used on the current project by selecting the File Filters option in Project Properties You can enable project specific filters via the Project gt Properties Click on File Filters button and activate the check box Enable project specific filters A copy of the filters configuration will be stored with the project in this case If you later change filters only the project filters will be updated while the user filters stay unchanged Warning Should you change filter options whilst a project is open you must reload the project in order for the changes to take effect

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