In my previous post, I shared a small script that selects the current source text in OmegaT. When OmegaT 5.8/6 is released, that script is not going to be needed: this function has been included in the program itself.
Enjoy!
There might be a number of situations when the whole text of the current segment’s source is needed for something other than translation itself: performing concordance or web search, writing a translation note in another application, asking your client or project manager about the text, etc.
Currently, in OmegaT it can be achieved in several fairly easy ways:
All that is fine, but it would be much nicer to have a simple shortcut to select that source text, similar to what Ctrl+A does (which in OmegaT Editor selects everything only in the target field, or the complete textual contents of other panes if the got focus). I’ve written a simple script that does just that, and though scripts can be bound only to Ctrl+Shift+F[1-12] keys, it’s better than not having a shortcut at all. Hopefully, this function might appear in OmegaT itself, but before it happened, here you have it:
Get it from SF.net
Get it from GitHub
To learn how to install and use OmegaT scripts, see this quick guide.
Happy selecting!
The earlier version of this script was described in this article. Here I’m announcing the update to the script which makes it possible to include:
1 or + in the dedicated column: for the first occurrence, or further instances of the repeated segment, respectfully)a with a different background in the dedicated column)NT in the dedicated column) All of the above features are optional, though they are on by default. To disable or change them, editing the script is required, but all those lines are very easy to understand, they have comments, and are placed almost in the very beginning of the script:
Unlike the earlier version, the script produces the tabular output:
| Segment # | Source Text | Target Text | Uniq/Al | Segment ID | Creator | Changer | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The script can be downloaded from
SF.net repository
GitHub repository
To learn how to install and use OmegaT scripts, see this quick guide.
Comments, suggestions, complaints, and donations are always welcome!
Happy spreadsheeting!
Over the years of my daily use of OmegaT (I started using it back in 2009), I helped quite a few translators to make their first steps with the program. The funny thing is that almost every time a new person tries to learn the program, we change some of the same defaults to make it more usable and comfortable. So I thought it might be a good idea to collect those few initial setup changes here as a small series of posts so that anyone could refer to them at any point.
The first thing I always have new users change is the Editor behavior.
Continue readingOmegaT is just an excellent translation tool, but there’s still some room for improvement when it comes to using it for revising translated materials. I really hope that in future what I’m about to present in this post will become completely obsolete, but for now it might be welcomed by people who needed to mark segments with different status markers.
A big shout-out goes to Marc Prior for coming up with the idea and backing up the development.
I meant to write a short article about OmegaT script basics for a long time, but never found time to do so. This mishap got fixed without me, and out of gratitude I’m posting my translation of Gli script di OmegaT by LanguageLane. Continue reading
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