Using a Wordfast TM to create a glossary Thread poster: María Teresa Taylor Oliver
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Hello! I've been searching for this topic in the manual, but I can't find it.
I'm using Wordfast 5.0zw with three glossaries that I had already found/compiled/etc.
But I've already translated half of all the documents I need to work on, and I want to know if there is a way of extracting/creating a new glossary from the TM I've been using.
You see, I have many, many expressions and set phrases that are constantly repeated throughout, and I don't want to... See more Hello! I've been searching for this topic in the manual, but I can't find it.
I'm using Wordfast 5.0zw with three glossaries that I had already found/compiled/etc.
But I've already translated half of all the documents I need to work on, and I want to know if there is a way of extracting/creating a new glossary from the TM I've been using.
You see, I have many, many expressions and set phrases that are constantly repeated throughout, and I don't want to keep on typing them over and over. Since my fuzzy threshold was set at 75% (I believe that is the default value), whenever I had long sentences (which is practically all the time), these set phrases did not appear in the target unit, so I had to type them over and over.
Maybe I should have added new entries to my other three existing glossaries as I worked, but I didn't know how/didn't think of it sooner
Now I've finally found how to lower the fuzzy threshold value, but still...
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks very, very much from a very, very stressed, overworked and very tired colleague! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Gerard de Noord 
France
Local time: 02:10
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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| Edit your TM in Word | Jul 24, 2005 |
Hello Maria,
If your TM is not too big, you could edit it in Word.
Open a copy of the TM in Word.
Select all.
Table/Convert/Text to Table (Separate text at tabs).
Delete the first row and all columns exept source and target.
Convert table to tab-delimited text.
Save as a TXT file.
Select the file as a glossary and reorganise it.
Regards,
Gerard
| | | | Nicolette Ri (X)
Local time: 02:10
French to Dutch
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| I did it this way | Jul 24, 2005 |
With the source text. Look for terms that you want to put in the glossary, then do a context search (Ctrl+Alt+C) (all occurencies will appear in another Word page) and then create a new glossary manually, preferably in a new Excel file. Sort this glossary in alphabetical order, delete the double entries and export it in .TXT format.
| | | | | Thank you so much!!! | Jul 24, 2005 |
Gerard: You're a Godsend!! It has been working perfectly so far
Nicolette: I was doing reference/context searches throughout, but some of my units didn't appear and, since the results open up in another Word document, it was a bit cumbersome for me. I'm too stressed as it is!! But thank you for the tip, that is also a good way to do it.
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