Comments on: Dealing with tags in OmegaT

By: Textnik

Textnik — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:06:39 +0000

I was just wondering how to do that on a MS OOXML file.. Unfortunately still no solution as of 2.02.

By: Roberto bechtlufft

Roberto bechtlufft — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:32:48 +0000

Hi, Corinne. I’m also an OmegaT user, and I really missed a way to insert tags using keyboard shortcuts. A few days ago I’ve created this small set of scripts that add this feature to OmegaT, so that you can skip to the next/previous tag using ATL+RIGHT/LEFT and paste the tag with ALT+DOWN. In case you’re interested, it’s called taginsert and you may find it here:
http://www.bechtranslations.com.br/programas/start

The site is in Portuguese, but the zip file contains a readme in English. Note that the scripts ony work on Linux and with the newest version of OmegaT (2.0.2).

Best regards,

Roberto Bechtlufft

By: Update on tags in OmegaT « Thoughts On Translation

Update on tags in OmegaT « Thoughts On Translation — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:12:11 +0000

[...] my love of the free and open source translation environment tool OmegaT and my frustration with tags in OmegaT. Since then, I’ve found that the easiest solution, as long as the document doesn’t [...]

By: Etranslate

Etranslate — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:18:34 +0000

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By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:19:26 +0000

Jean-Christophe, thanks a lot, this is really helpful. I’m learning how to manage the tags more effectively, and I’m finding that as per your suggestion of ignoring the tags that don’t affect the appearance of the text, I can leave out many of the tags with no harmful effects! Otherwise OmegaT is working really, really well for me and I’m not going back to the proprietary guys!

By: Jean-Christophe Helary

Jean-Christophe Helary — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:55:37 +0000

Corinne,

It is important to understand that in a lot of cases, tags are only remnants of an old formatting that does not exist anymore on the surface but that still has its “roots” in the file code.

Such formating is invisible to the eye, but is very visible in OmegaT…

Also, in OmegaT, tags are not a special entity that OmegaT can automatically ignore when computing the matches. As far as OmegaT is concerned, a tag is a character string, and since matches are computed based on strings similarities, taking a single tag into account would add 9 characters in “weight” to the computation. You can easily see that it is not what you’d want as far as matching accuracy is concerned.

Last but not least, paragraph (or segment level) formatting is not visible in OmegaT. OmegaT only displays the “inline” formatting. For this reason it is sometimes convenient to simply ignore the tags altogether in OmegaT and externally add the formatting to the document. As the manual says. Since you only loose the inline formatting it is not such a big deal in most cases.

Tag management is going to be improved in the future, hopefully once the current code re-factoring is completed.