Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: WFC: What do YOU use the BTM for?
Poster: Yves Champollion
Post title: you can set the BTM as secondary, not primary
[quote]DorothyX wrote:
I learned WF Classic on my own with version 3.0 before there was a real manual.
I know that BTM stands for background TM, but after toying a bit with it I decided not to use it.
Instead I created one TM per end client, sometimes two or three (I have two source languages and translate legal and technical stuff).
Then I assisted at one of Yves' trainings. He told about this 'big mama' and it seemed highly important, because lots of translations would come up immediately.
The big disadvantage of it was for me that all of my clients have precise terminology, and if segments of various sources are mixed up in one and the same big TM, I would have very inconsistent translations. ==>Conclusion, for me the first TM should be the client TM, and the second TM, if any: the big mamma (with a read-only function).
(later I moved to WF Pro, which I found dissatisfying, and then to Studio, but both had the advantage that one could set several TMs at the same time and indicate the order in which segments should be picked up). [/quote]
Hi Dorothy,
the obscure and obtuse setting in Setup > AS where you see something like
BTM,TM,WFA,WFS,MT1,MT2,MT3
lets you specifiy the pecking order among those animals. So you would want to rewrite it as
TM,BTM,WFA,WFS,MT1,MT2,MT3
and matches from the TM would come up before the BTM. But there is an even better way to sort your situation: set a penalty on the BTM. That is done in the TM rules pane. As a result, any "match" from the BTM will be degraded, and will never appear as exact match, thereby raising your attention if one crops up.
That assumes you've grown out of WFC 3.0 (chuckles), and I'm pretty sure you did! (and the manual hasn't made much progress. But hit youtube, type wordfast, and listen to great people explaining great stuff; fast forward on things you already know).
Kind regards,
yves
[Edited at 2015-10-10 09:47 GMT]
[Edited at 2015-10-10 09:49 GMT]
Topic: WFC: What do YOU use the BTM for?
Poster: Yves Champollion
Post title: you can set the BTM as secondary, not primary
[quote]DorothyX wrote:
I learned WF Classic on my own with version 3.0 before there was a real manual.
I know that BTM stands for background TM, but after toying a bit with it I decided not to use it.
Instead I created one TM per end client, sometimes two or three (I have two source languages and translate legal and technical stuff).
Then I assisted at one of Yves' trainings. He told about this 'big mama' and it seemed highly important, because lots of translations would come up immediately.
The big disadvantage of it was for me that all of my clients have precise terminology, and if segments of various sources are mixed up in one and the same big TM, I would have very inconsistent translations. ==>Conclusion, for me the first TM should be the client TM, and the second TM, if any: the big mamma (with a read-only function).
(later I moved to WF Pro, which I found dissatisfying, and then to Studio, but both had the advantage that one could set several TMs at the same time and indicate the order in which segments should be picked up). [/quote]
Hi Dorothy,
the obscure and obtuse setting in Setup > AS where you see something like
BTM,TM,WFA,WFS,MT1,MT2,MT3
lets you specifiy the pecking order among those animals. So you would want to rewrite it as
TM,BTM,WFA,WFS,MT1,MT2,MT3
and matches from the TM would come up before the BTM. But there is an even better way to sort your situation: set a penalty on the BTM. That is done in the TM rules pane. As a result, any "match" from the BTM will be degraded, and will never appear as exact match, thereby raising your attention if one crops up.
That assumes you've grown out of WFC 3.0 (chuckles), and I'm pretty sure you did! (and the manual hasn't made much progress. But hit youtube, type wordfast, and listen to great people explaining great stuff; fast forward on things you already know).
Kind regards,
yves
[Edited at 2015-10-10 09:47 GMT]
[Edited at 2015-10-10 09:49 GMT]