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Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
Samuel Murray wrote:
Yes, so you have to first replace all whitespace characters (except spaces, duh) with replacement characters.
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= horizontal tab
Thank you for reminding me of that one! I'll add a rule to the TextFactory.
Or just replace \n with ① and replace \t with ② throughout the file -- no need to restrict it to segments, for since you're not going to use the TMX file after this
I'll use the tab-delimited file for several purposes. One of them is ... creating a cleaned and smaller TMX. That TextFactory will be pretty straightforward.
BTW:
BBEdit introduces the Text Factory, which allows you to assemble a list of text transformations that will be applied in order to either the current document or selection (when invoked as a filter), or to a specified list of files and folders (when invoked via the Scripts menu).
| | | | Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER | | Why not use CafeTran Espresso? | Oct 27, 2022 |
Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion?
1. Create or open a project with the required language pair.
2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled
3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab)
4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary.... See more Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion?
1. Create or open a project with the required language pair.
2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled
3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab)
4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary. A dialog will ask you to select which memory to import segments from. And if the currently selected/opened tab is not a glossary, it will first ask you to select one.
That's it.
CafeTran also includes some TM Filter options, including one called "Clean and replace foreign codes": Some TMX files from third-party tools have unusual codes in the segments such as codes inside the curly brackets or emdash, endash, tab code. CafeTran clears or replaces them with equivalent unicode characters.
https://github.com/idimitriadis0/TheCafeTranFiles/wiki/3-TM-options#tm-filter-options
If needed, prior TMX editing (including search and replace, with or without regular expressions) can also be done from within CafeTran.
[Edited at 2022-10-27 05:50 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
Jean Dimitriadis wrote: Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion? 1. Create or open a project with the required language pair. 2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled 3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab) 4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary. A dialog will ask you to select which memory to import segments from. And if the currently selected/opened tab is not a glossary, it will first ask you to select one. That's it. CafeTran also includes some TM Filter options, including one called "Clean and replace foreign codes": Some TMX files from third-party tools have unusual codes in the segments such as codes inside the curly brackets or emdash, endash, tab code. CafeTran clears or replaces them with equivalent unicode characters. https://github.com/idimitriadis0/TheCafeTranFiles/wiki/3-TM-options#tm-filter-options If needed, prior TMX editing (including search and replace, with or without regular expressions) can also be done from within CafeTran. [Edited at 2022-10-27 05:50 GMT]
I am familiar with this procedure. However, it is extremely slow.
This takes ages.
Besides that, I like to have an alternative solution that I can use as a framework and possibly integrate in my workflows.
[Edited at 2022-10-27 07:18 GMT]
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Dan Lucas 
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:30
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Stepan Konev wrote:
If that MacOS text editor can mark the match, you can use the following regex:
to mark and then copy all segments to clipboard
Although I've only tried it on one file, this typically clever solution from Stepan seems to work well in Notepad++ here - much appreciated. Given that we already have the regex, it looks like an obvious choice for a tiny script in the programming language of one's choice (probably just from the command line in Perl!). I have never actually needed to convert TMX to tab-delimited, but it's nice to know that it's possible. Thanks to Hans and other contributors for the topic.
Dan
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