Creating a TM from a Single Bilingual File

Hi all! I'm new here. So stupid question time!

I need to translate a massive file. But I'm in luck! It's version 2.0, and I have the following: a txt file for the 1.5 ST, a txt file for the 1.5 TT, and an bilingual HTML file that has the entire thing with the English on top and Japanese right underneath.

I tried to align the TXT files, but it's... just too big. It's around 20,000 segments, things go off in the middle, several parts aren't parsing right... it would take me two weeks to align it manually.

But wait, I already have an "aligned" version! The bilingual HTML file! It's already separated line by line. Is there any way to leverage this into a TM? I found a question like this in the archives, but it was around five years old and the answer seemed to be a big "nope". I've got my fingers crossed that there's a workaround here... otherwise I will just end up having to CTRL+F every single line of this huge thing from scratch.

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  • This is all awesome! I have a lot more to go on now, thanks so much. I do apologize for taking up your time with my ignorance... hopefully after I get some of these skills under my belt I can pay it forward in the future.

    I am immensely grateful for all the support you all have provided. I have a long way to go, but I can't express strongly enough how cool it is to see that the exact thing I wanted to do is actually doable! You rock.

    Now to spend the rest of tomorrow going through all the new tech. It's going to be a good day!

    Cheers all around.

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