Translation of TTX Files in WFP
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How to Translate TagEditor TTX Files in Wordfast Pro, demonstrated by Yasmin Moslem
Ask your client to pre-translate the TTX file in Trados even against an empty TM and send you the *segmented* TTX file to be able to open and translate in Wordfast Pro. You can even do this yourself in the DEMO version of Trados 2007.
Open Trados 2007 Workbench > Tools > Translate > Add (to select the TTX file) > (check) Segment unknown sentences > Translate. (A demo version of Trados should be enough for doing this yourself.)
- Right-click the "segmented" TTX and select to open it in Wordfast Pro, or open Wordfast Pro > File menu, and select "Open File".
- It will ask you to create a project for you if the current one has different language locales.
- Select the required TM: Translation Memory menu > New/Select TM > "Open" to browse for your TM (or "New" if you do not have one).
- Place the cursor in the target cell and press Ctrl+Alt+X or Alt+Delete to remove the copied source.
- Type the translation and press Alt+Down to commit (store) it into the TM and move to the next segment.
- While translating, make sure you enter the placeables in their proper places. Placeables look like {ut1}. Press Ctrl+Alt+Right to select a placeable and Ctrl+Alt+Down to insert it in its location in the target cell.
- Continue translation until the end of the file, press Alt+End, and make sure you have only violet, green and/or yellow segments; pink segments mean that they have been edited without committing into the TM.
- When you finish the translation, select "File" menu > "Save Translated File" to have the (bilingual) translated TTX file that you have to send back to your client.
You can use Ctrl+Alt+X or Alt+Delete to remove the content of a target segment. If you want to remove the content of ALL the target segments before starting the translation, you can use the shortcut Alt+Shift+Delete.
