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(My question concerns OmegaT 2.0.5, but it shouldn't be very different with other versions).
Dear colleagues,
I am translating several big documents that my client (an agency) is
En réponse à Mr Meunier :
Je comprends que les traductions informatiques soient rentables pour vous, vu la vitesse (et la précision) avec laquelle pour répondez aux KudoZ :)
Je ne<
As a reply to Madeleine:
Well, love might not be the appropriate term, but at least we can say that most translators /like/ their job.
There are better-paying occupations, and for peop
Astrid and Elodie and all the others have posted very valuable information. Thanks to everyone !
My technique for avoiding bad clients is not as sophisticated, I usually trust my in
Dear Sabela,
Dikran's advice is helpful, I didn't know that professional accountants familiar with immigration issues could be found easily.
I encourage you to get involved in the
Dear Sabela,
I am myself partly based in Turkey (I live there half of the year on average) but I am registered in France.
I unfortunately cannot answer your question properly, but I kn
While it is not exactly an ad-blocker, flashblock disables all the flash widgets on webpages, and replaces them with empty rectangles. You can enable them selectively by clicking on the
Dear Paula,
This would be very tempting, however the Blue Board rules clearly state that you need to have actually worked for a given outsourcer (completed at least one project) to
As a reply to the general topic and to Amanda:
There was an agency in a middle-income country with a very good Blue Board mark (and tens of entries) which looked serious, and I repeated
Re-bonjour,
J'ai eu au téléphone une personne très gentille de la douane qui m'a confirmé que le SIE est censé donner un numéro de TVA, et peut en théorie l'obtenir immédiatemen
Bonjour à tous,
J'espère que je ne répète pas quelque chose qui a déjà été dit avant.. Ce fil commence à devenir gigantesque !
Comme je n'avais toujours pas de nouvelles de
Chers collègues,
Je reprends ici l'appel lancé par Attila Piróth sur le forum international :
Un grand nombre d'ONG multiplient actuellement leurs efforts pour venir en aide �
Lol, je suis bien d'accord avec vous Sophie.. Comme quoi un score de 5 au Blue Board ne dit pas tout !
Soit dit en passant, les rigolos de cette sorte ont souvent tendance à se trouver a
.. pour ces liens supplémentaires.
Il apparaît dans ces fils que la Matmut est une option intéressante si on ne tient pas à ce que les erreurs de traduction soient couvertes (ça
Merci Laurent, c'est exactement ce que je cherchais.
Étant donné que je n'ai pas de diplôme en traduction (je suis physicien de formation), il semble d'après le fil ci-dessus qu
Bonjour à tout le monde,
Ayant l'habitude de travailler avec des agences, je ne m'étais pas vraiment posé la question jusqu'à présent ; mais depuis que j'ai vu une clause dans les
Eleftherios, your comment is valuable because it states (bluntly) one side of ProZ that does exist and that beginners should be well aware of.
But I beg to disagree about the fact that
Wonderful Didier, it seems to work very well with Turkish. It even detects non-trivial inflexions.
Thanks again for all your hard work on OmegaT !
Michael
Hmm, so it seems that Lucene is using the Apache license.
I guess that you have already investigated the issue - I will always be puzzled by these issues of license incompatibility betw
Hi Didier, thanks for your explanations. I didn't know that fuzzy matching was useless for glossary terms.
By the way, how do search engines work (google & friends) ? In general, they a
Hi Andrei,
As comments to your suggestions :
1) OmegaT already creates TMs in the ultra standard TMX format. No need for anything else, I guess.
2) Yes, this would be very nice.
Susan, thank you for your enumeration of all of tokenizer's features, because quite frankly I hadn't tried it.
I have now installed it. Here are my comments :
I like : It recognizes
Laurent, thank you for your suggestions. From the Project tab of OmegaT, and by looking at the directories, I guess that I can dump all the TM's that I want in the TM/ folder; is this corr
Laurent, thanks a lot for your idea - it hadn't crossed my mind, but I am now considering collecting all the donations from the very rich OmegaT lobby members, and then flee to the Caiman<
(I know that some of OmegaT's developpers hang out on this forum, so I am secretly hoping that they will also read this post :p )
OmegaT's glossary is quite basic; in particular, there
Hi all,
I have two questions about Translation Memories in Omega T that may sound trivial, but I haven't been able to find a solution by myself :
1) How can I load a standard TMX fil
Let me add myself to the list of happy Linux users (with a Windows emulator to ensure that the produced documents are readable by everyone).
Here is a small list of the software tha
Hi Mara,
I had recently posted a similar question on this forum, and following the helpful replies that I got and after seeing the available products in Turkey, I bought a Nokia E63.
I am surprised that no one in this thread has mentioned hardware to communicate with clients and even do some work outside of the home/workplace.
A lot of clients expect a reply withi
Williamson, this is not fiction : this is the price paid to agencies for quality, specialized work.
You do the math : a specialized translator (electronics, engineering, medical doc
A well-known Chinese language teacher from France (who is now an author or co-author of half of the lecture books on the subject) once told me the following story, half seriously :
Afte
As a comment to thmarks's post :
When reading Haruki Murakami's novels in English or French (translated from Japanese), I always wondered if the spaghetti, cream and salads that his
Neil,
Thanks a lot for your very insightful post.
I am going to reply to each of your paragraphs in the same order :
1) That's right, a lot of academics do "on the side" work. I
It's not as lonesome as you may think, you see ? At this very moment, there are thousands of colleagues on the ProZ forum who are very happy to have a coffee break with you :p
Dear colleagues,
Dear foghorn, patyjs, My Hue, Maria, cilantro,
Thank you very much for your extremely helpful answers. From now on, I will know what to do with all this second-hand
Dear colleagues,
I am proofreading a research proposal (in English, yes, I shouldn't be doing this but it's for my own lab), and I keep wincing when I see "the used laser" or "the used<
First, I would like to thank all the people who have written extremely helpful and encouraging comments. I will definitely take them into account when writing my website and updating my
After having tried (and failed to like) a lot of fancy editors and solutions, I ended up sticking with the clean and standard XHTML/CSS combination.
For the website newbies reading this
A few days ago, I noticed that ProZ had 'forgotten' that my real name had to be used on the site (and on my profile), rather than my user name.
I corrected it, and -surprise- today I
Dear colleagues,
I have a PhD in physics (optics and atomic physics). I am currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow, which means that I am doing research 'full-time' - with<
Uldis, your web page is great. It conveys the message very efficiently, it is indeed a pity that your prospective clients do not bother replying :p
It might be offending to our colleagu
It is not strictly speaking a mousepad, but my optical mouse likes the dense black text on a white background better than the unvarnished wooden surface of my desk (go figure why) :p
From what I gather by reading the posts above, the consensus seems to be that how hard a language is to learn depends mostly on your mother tongue or the languages you already know.
Despi
Thanks for the link, I had been looking for something of the sort.
Now that I have downloaded and loaded the extension into OpenOffice, how do I run it ? It doesn't seem to do anyth
Mr Pesch,
Let me point out that in some countries, the range of salaries for different professions can be much higher than in northern Europe (Finland for instance, correct me if I am
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