Glossarissimo!

"I can remember from my early days with SDL many interesting, and often frustrating conversations with the then Product Manager for MultiTerm.  The almost religious use of phrases like “You can’t use spreadsheets for terminology”… “It only takes a few steps to be able to create a simple glossary with MultiTerm”… “You can’t properly export a MultiTerm termbase to Excel”… and many more discussions along these lines.  Well, over the last year or so mainly thanks to the SDL OpenExchange which removes the shackles of being tied to “the way it’s always done” we have seen one tool in particular that has proven this traditional way of thinking wrong.  But not because our friendly product manager was wrong… he was mostly right.  When you think about Terminology Management in the traditional sense then Excel is not really suited to managing concept oriented databases that are designed fo ..."

The SDL Appstore is growing!  At the time of writing this article there are 161 apps on the store and over 220 thousand downloads from our users.  This is quite impressive and we are still only getting started as the number of APIs available for developers increases.  At the moment, in Studio alone we have APIs that allow a developer to do these sorts of things:

• create new filetypes (TXML), or customise existing filetypes
• create custom verification plugins (Number verifier) for QA for example
• create custom Translation Memory providers (Trados 2007 TM Provider), so you can look up translations from anywhere you like
• create custom Terminology providers (Term Excelerator), so you can use any source as a termbase
• automate your workflows using the ...

"“Workflow” and “Automation“.  Terms that are normally used (in our world) when talking about a TMS (Translation Management System).  So when working with tools like SDL WorldServer and SDL TMS which are provide a high degree of customisation, both using the user interface and/or through the API (Application Programming Interface).  For example, in SDL WorldServer you could create a workflow that automated the process for things like ..."

"In a previous post, I discussed how to add a Tab segmentation rule to Studio.
That is pretty straightforward, as the Tab is one of the segmentation options offered in the list of Break characters.
But what if we want to add a new segmentation rule for soft returns? No such option in the dropdown menu, so we need to use a Regex expression. The steps are ..."

"Terminology databases are often difficult to manage, especially when they become very large. With TermStar NXT, you can use data record filters to filter terminology in order to know when the data record was created, at what time, by whom, etc. You can filter entries containing certain words, those belonging to a particular project and use many other filtering criteria in accordance with your requirements. TermStar NXT allows you to create your own filters, save, modify and delete them, as well as use ..."

"This presentation is prepared for memoQ users who already have experience with this CAT tool and want to learn more about. In this webinar you can learn more about handling special file formats auto-translatables, managing your translation memories and term bases and many other important features and concepts that can make a memoQ user's life easier."

"If you’ve never come across Microsoft Publisher before then here’s a neat explanation from wikipedia.
“Microsoft Publisher is an entry-level desktop publishing application from Microsoft, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing.”
It’s actually quite a neat application for newbies to desktop publishing like me, but it’s a difficult tool to handle if you receive *.pub files (the format used by MS Publisher) and are asked to translate them.    And I do see requests from translators from time to time asking how they can handle them.  The file itself is a binary format and even with Office 2016 (which includes Publisher if you have the Professional version) the only export formats of PDF, XPS and HTML are not importable.  So very tricky indeed if you need to be able to ..."

"Translate SDLXLIFF files in another CAT tool (the free CAT tool OmegaT with the the Okapi XLIFF filter). Read the ..."

"With LiveDocs, Kilgray has taken memoQ yet another step beyond the conventional idea of translation memories. In this webinar we will show you how to save time by shifting alignment into the translation work phase; how to save costs by organizing translations into a collection of documents instead of a traditional TM, and how to enhance quality through leveraging even monolingual documents and binary files."

"During this 1-hour presentation you will learn how to make the most out of the newest version of the world's most dynamic translation environment: you will be able to create projects, manage your translation memories and term bases, understand the translation results offered by memoQ and work with documents received in other translation tool formats."

"Join this webinar for tips and tricks on segmentation rules, for example, how to add your own abbreviations so that memoQ doesn't break segments on them, or how to use regular expressions to customize segmentation rules. We'll also touch the recent simplified segmentation rule editor, and avoiding problems with segmentation when having two or more different versions of memoQ installed in parallel."

"Many memoQ users accept the default settings for projects. But there are a huge assortment of productivity features hidden in the Settings section of each project, including features controlling QA checks, TM and LiveDocs usage, segmentation and auto-translation rules. This webinar is intended to visit these settings and give a couple of usecases where these might come handy."