Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Retaining tags/attributes when converting TMX to Excel and back
Poster: FarkasAndras
Post title: Say what?
I'm not sure if you realize, but tmx was never designed to be translated. Why did your client give you a tmx file to translate? What is the whole point of this workflow? It is completely unreasonable and fraught with exactly the kind of trouble you ran into. It is a virtual certainty that whatever aim people are trying to achieve here can be achieved better in a simpler workflow.
If you really want to translate the tmx file and leave everything as is, you'll probably have to
a) Overwrite text in place in a text editor
b) Open it as an xml file in a CAT tool. You may or may not be able to set up the import process so that your CAT correctly identifies translatable text (i.e. you may have to manually copy/skip stuff that has to be left untouched).
Topic: Retaining tags/attributes when converting TMX to Excel and back
Poster: FarkasAndras
Post title: Say what?
I'm not sure if you realize, but tmx was never designed to be translated. Why did your client give you a tmx file to translate? What is the whole point of this workflow? It is completely unreasonable and fraught with exactly the kind of trouble you ran into. It is a virtual certainty that whatever aim people are trying to achieve here can be achieved better in a simpler workflow.
If you really want to translate the tmx file and leave everything as is, you'll probably have to
a) Overwrite text in place in a text editor
b) Open it as an xml file in a CAT tool. You may or may not be able to set up the import process so that your CAT correctly identifies translatable text (i.e. you may have to manually copy/skip stuff that has to be left untouched).