Convert OmegaT project to XLIFF for other CAT tools

I’m back with another little script that might be pretty handy for those who need to work on the same material in different CAT tools, or for translation agencies who use OmegaT as their main CAT application but farm out the work to translators using their CAT tools of choice. As a matter of fact, the script was requested by translation agency Velior for this very reason.
When the script is invoked, it writes out a file named PROJECTNAME.xlf (PROJECTNAME is the actual name of the project, not this loudly yelled word, of course), and the file is located in script_output subfolder of the current project. It exports both translated (they get “final” state in the resultant XLF file) and untranslated segments, and for untranslated segments the source is copied to the target, and such segments get “needs-translation” state. OmegaT segmentation and tags are preserved. Tags get enveloped in <ph id=”x”> and </ph>, so that they are treated as tags in other CAT tools. Continue reading

Stripping Tags Everywhere, Groovy Way

Every once in a while you have to deal with a match that has wrong tags. Hopefully, pretty soon OmegaT will be smart enough to deal with such matches for you, making it possible to insert a wrongly tagged match in such a way that you wouldn’t have to fix tags — they’ll get fixed on their own. But while we are not there yet, a practical workaround is to use the match tag-free and to insert proper tags wherever needed (OmegaT 3 lets you insert them one by one, and a new default shortcut for that is Ctrl+T).
In this post I share 5 groovy scripts to strip tags in different situations (headings link to pastebin.com, files can be downloaded from there):

  • Replacing target with match
    /*
     * #Purpose: Replace current target with tag-free match 
     * #Details: http: // wp.me/p3fHEs-4W
     * 
     * @author   Kos Ivantsov
     * @date     2013-06-26
     * @version  0.1
     */
    
    import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*
    import static org.omegat.util.Platform.*
    import org.omegat.core.Core;
    
    // abort if a project is not opened yet
    def prop = project.projectProperties
    if (!prop) {
      final def title = 'Replace with Match (no tags)'
      final def msg   = 'Please try again after you open a project.'
      showMessageDialog null, msg, title, INFORMATION_MESSAGE
      return
    }
    
    def match = Core.getMatcher()
    def near = match.getActiveMatch()
    if (near != null) {
      def matchtranslation = "$near.translation"
      matchtranslation = matchtranslation.replaceAll(/<\/?[a-z]+[0-9]* ?\/?>/, '')
      editor.replaceEditText(matchtranslation);
    }
    
  • Inserting match
    /*
     * #Purpose: Insert tag-free match into current target 
     * #Details: http: // wp.me/p3fHEs-4W
     * 
     * @author   Kos Ivantsov
     * @date     2013-06-26
     * @version  0.1
     */
    
    import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*
    import static org.omegat.util.Platform.*
    import org.omegat.core.Core;
    
    // abort if a project is not opened yet
    def prop = project.projectProperties
    if (!prop) {
      final def title = 'Insert Match (no tags)'
      final def msg   = 'Please try again after you open a project.'
      showMessageDialog null, msg, title, INFORMATION_MESSAGE
      return
    }
    
    def match = Core.getMatcher()
    def near = match.getActiveMatch()
    if (near != null) {
      def matchtranslation = "$near.translation"
      matchtranslation = matchtranslation.replaceAll(/<\/?[a-z]+[0-9]* ?\/?>/, '')
      editor.insertText(matchtranslation)
    }
    
  • Replacing target with source
    /*
     * #Purpose: Replace current target with tag-free source 
     * #Details: http: // wp.me/p3fHEs-4W
     * 
     * @author   Kos Ivantsov
     * @date     2013-06-26
     * @version  0.1
     */
    
    import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*
    import static org.omegat.util.Platform.*
    
    // abort if a project is not opened yet
    def prop = project.projectProperties
    if (!prop) {
      final def title = 'Replace with Source (no tags)'
      final def msg   = 'Please try again after you open a project.'
      showMessageDialog null, msg, title, INFORMATION_MESSAGE
      return
    }
    
    def stext = editor.currentEntry.getSrcText().replaceAll(/<\/?[a-z]+[0-9]* ?\/?>/, '')
    editor.replaceEditText(stext)
    
  • Inserting source
    /*
     * #Purpose: Insert tag-free source into current target 
     * #Details: http: // wp.me/p3fHEs-4W
     * 
     * @author   Kos Ivantsov
     * @date     2013-06-26
     * @version  0.1
     */
    
    import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*
    import static org.omegat.util.Platform.*
    
    // abort if a project is not opened yet
    def prop = project.projectProperties
    if (!prop) {
      final def title = 'Insert source (no tags)'
      final def msg   = 'Please try again after you open a project.'
      showMessageDialog null, msg, title, INFORMATION_MESSAGE
      return
    }
    
    def stext = editor.currentEntry.getSrcText().replaceAll(/<\/?[a-z]+[0-9]* ?\/?>/, '')
    editor.insertText(stext)
    
  • Stripping tags in target
    /*
     * #Purpose: Remove tags in the current target 
     * #Details: http: // wp.me/p3fHEs-4W
     * 
     * @author   Kos Ivantsov
     * @date     2013-06-26
     * @version  0.1
     */
    import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*
    import static org.omegat.util.Platform.*
    
    // abort if a project is not opened yet
    def prop = project.projectProperties
    if (!prop) {
      final def title = 'Strip tags in current segment'
      final def msg   = 'Please try again after you open a project.'
      showMessageDialog null, msg, title, INFORMATION_MESSAGE
      return
    }
    
    target = editor.getCurrentTranslation()
    if (target != null) {
    target = target.replaceAll(/<\/?[a-z]+[0-9]* ?\/?>/, '')
    }
    editor.replaceEditText(target)
    

There are plenty of other ways to remove tags in OmegaT, some of them even posted as my recipes, but the beauty of using groovy is that scripts can be run from withing OmegaT, with its own keyboard shortcut, without needing to assign an OS shortcut to an external script/application.
As usual, inspiration for the scripts was an idea shared at OmegaT Yahoo! Group


Good luck!

OmegaT tags one by one

Situation

When working with a tag-rich text in OmegaT where tags are really needed (for instance, with HTML files), you can either insert the source into translation input field (Ctrl+Shift+I or Ctrl+Shift+R) and then overwrite the original with your translation between the tags, or put them all into the input field without any original text (Ctrl+Shift+T) and write your translation between the appropriate tags. That’s if you wanna use the keyboard only. With the mouse you can select, copy and paste them one by one, screeching your teeth over each one of them and hating the waste of time.

Problem

What you want is a possibility to select one tag at a time, insert it, select the next one, and all that without the mouse.
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