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Hi, SDL community:
I have TM in.txt format and I want to convert them into .tmx format so I can import into a TM in SDL TRADOS 2017. How can I do this if I no longer have the Trados Workbench that allowed that conversion? Thank you!
Silvia Gentili
Hi, SDL community:
I have TM in.txt format and I want to convert them into .tmx format so I can import into a TM in SDL TRADOS 2017. How can I do this if I no longer have the Trados Workbench that allowed that conversion? Thank you!
Silvia Gentili
Just for a little fun... you could open the TXT in a text editor, like Notepad++, and separate the source text and the target text, then create a filetype in Studio for the resultant files containing the source and target, then finally align them. If your TXT is really huge this might not be a very good approach but if it's only a few thousand TUs then it could be a way of doing it.
Alternatively you could send me the TXT and I'll convert it to TMX in Trados Workbench for you - pfilkin@sdl.com
I'm not sure Wordfast Anywhere will do this without some work as the formats are not exactly the same (Trados TXT/Wordfast TXT)... you might know that Olifant won't handle a Trados TXT either.
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't remember, or is simply too young to know, the old Trados Workbench could create two types of exchange files... TMX and TXT. The TXT looks as though it might be XML but it's not... full of opening tags with no closing tags and stuff like that. Hard to bring into Excel because the source and target are not on the same line.
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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