Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Creating WF classic TM
Poster: Terry Richards
Post title: Thanks all
Thanks to all who made suggestions.
To those who suggested +Align, I wasn't aware that it could align segments within the same document. In fact, I haven't used it much - I played with it a couple of times and the results didn't much encourage me to investigate it further. Perhaps I gave up too easily and should add it to my "round to it" list.
Dominique: I tried your suggestion and did get a TM that WF seemed to recognize but Olifant couldn't open it which concerned me a bit. I tried both opening it and importing it into an empty TM. However, you got me on the right track as, while trying to import it, I noticed that Olifant can import tab-delimited text files. That's something I can easily create from the Word docs:
For each doc:
1) Delete the unused columns from the table
2) Convert the table to text using the tab option for the column delimiter
3) Select all
4) Copy
5) Paste to the end of a master text file.
One time:
6) After processing all documents, import the tabbed text into an empty TM using Olifant.
7) Save as a WF TM.
8) Celebrate wildly.
Note that steps 1-4 (and possibly 5) can be done in a macro.
I tried this on one document and got a TM that both WF and Olifant seem to like.
Topic: Creating WF classic TM
Poster: Terry Richards
Post title: Thanks all
Thanks to all who made suggestions.
To those who suggested +Align, I wasn't aware that it could align segments within the same document. In fact, I haven't used it much - I played with it a couple of times and the results didn't much encourage me to investigate it further. Perhaps I gave up too easily and should add it to my "round to it" list.
Dominique: I tried your suggestion and did get a TM that WF seemed to recognize but Olifant couldn't open it which concerned me a bit. I tried both opening it and importing it into an empty TM. However, you got me on the right track as, while trying to import it, I noticed that Olifant can import tab-delimited text files. That's something I can easily create from the Word docs:
For each doc:
1) Delete the unused columns from the table
2) Convert the table to text using the tab option for the column delimiter
3) Select all
4) Copy
5) Paste to the end of a master text file.
One time:
6) After processing all documents, import the tabbed text into an empty TM using Olifant.
7) Save as a WF TM.
8) Celebrate wildly.
Note that steps 1-4 (and possibly 5) can be done in a macro.
I tried this on one document and got a TM that both WF and Olifant seem to like.