ttx, tmx - what for?

Andrzej Mierzejewski wrote:

Several basic questions from a newbie:

An agency sent me a DOC file to translate, a TMX file and a TTX file. All files from the same project. The agency uses Trados but I do not. The PM was not able to explain me me what I need the TMX and TTX for. I have had some previous experience with OmegaT for simple texts but never before received TTX and TMX files as a basis for my work. My OmegaT version is 2.6.3.

So, I saved the DOC file as ODT file to be the source file for OmegaT to process.

I heard that OmegaT needs an Okapi plugin to be able to process TTX, so I downloaded the okapi-pluginForOmegaT_all-platforms_0.20.zip, unzipped and found four JAR files and one read-me TXT file. I copied all JAR files to the OmT 'plugins' directory. I hope that operation was correct but am not sure whether I really need all four. My OS is 32-bit Windows 7.

Then, I copied the TMX file to the 'tm' directory inside the project directory. Was that operation correct or not?

Now, I have the TTX file and a question: which subdirectory should I copy this file to? As far as I can see, the choice is four-fold: dictionary, glossary, omegat, target. Or else?

Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
Did not the customer know ... that you do not have Trados? It seems to me that you should have made it clear from the beginning.

Didier Briel wrote:

veratek wrote:
I downloaded this:
okapi-pluginForOmegaT_all-platforms_0.21.zip

json-simple-1.1.1.jar
okapiFiltersForOmegaT-0.21.jar
slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar
slf4j-jdk14-1.7.2.jar
stax2-api-3.1.1.jar
woodstox-core-lgpl-4.1.4.jar

I copied all of the above to:
D:\programs\OmegaT\plugins

I open Omegat, create a new project, then I add a doc.ttx file.

Omegat opens the file in the project, but it only displays a few words for translation - that is, most of the text of the document is not displayed; it's as if it didn't exist in the document.

I opened the doc.ttx file in Word and I found this out:



C1- Usage interne
C1- Internal use



Above is the only type of text that Omegat displays. Below is the type of text it won't display and it doesn't appear counted in the stats either:


Contexte / pré-requis


Contexte / pré-requis


Any idea what the problem is?

veratek wrote:



let's try again:

all the text between these tags appears in Omegat:

ST target createdby="system" score="100" golden="true" GT

C1- Usage interne
C1- Internal use

ST/ target GT

........................................

The text between source and target score=0 doesn't appear:

ST source GT
Contexte / pré-requis
ST/ source GT
ST target score="0" GT
Contexte / pré-requis
ST/ target GT

above, ST=smaller than sign
GT= greater than sign

Didier Briel wrote:


First, as far as I know, no Okapi specialist reads this forum.

Secondly, the ProZ forum limitations makes it impossible to understand your sample from an XML point of view.

I recommend going to one of the two support groups I have mentioned.

Didier

veratek wrote:



I can't know what is important for someone to understand until I post it and they can understand it.

A "smaller than" sign is the sign that begins an HTML or an XML tag - and the "greater than" sign is the sign that ends an HTML tag. If you just substitute them above, you can make out what the actual snippet is like in the original file. I don't understand what is difficult about replacing ST with the smaller than sign above.

I'm not saying you or anyone else here has to know how to solve the problem, but at least it would be nice if people could actually understand what was posted. What's the purpose of asking a question if other people can't even understand the question?