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Quickly create a TMX file from 2 text files
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Oct 17, 2022

Sometimes I'm in the middle of a project and need to research a term. When I find this term in a document for which a translation is available, I decide to create a TMX (since my CAT tool, CafeTran Espresso, can open it without conversion).

But it has to be quick, since I'm concentrating on the text to be translated.

I quickly copy the paragraphs containing the source terms/info to a file 'source.txt' on my Desktop and then I copy the paragraphs containing the target te... See more
Sometimes I'm in the middle of a project and need to research a term. When I find this term in a document for which a translation is available, I decide to create a TMX (since my CAT tool, CafeTran Espresso, can open it without conversion).

But it has to be quick, since I'm concentrating on the text to be translated.

I quickly copy the paragraphs containing the source terms/info to a file 'source.txt' on my Desktop and then I copy the paragraphs containing the target terms/info to a file 'target.txt' on my Desktop.

Then I run the macro et voila: a TM named 'aligned.tmx' is created on the Desktop.

NOTE: You'll have to adjust the paths and language codes.

Download the macro here.

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Emanuele Vacca
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
New version Oct 18, 2022

Just uploaded a new version, because I had forgotten to add three lines for conversion of the & entities. Please download again here.
 


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