Fix misaligned TM?
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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Aug 25, 2016

Hello everyone

Does MemoQ have a built-in function that can load a misaligned TMX file, and then let the user fix the misalignment, before saving the fixed TMX file again?

Samuel


 
Anthony Green
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LiveDocs Aug 25, 2016

Samuel how well do you know LiveDocs?
That is its huge plus, as alignment can be carried out fairly roughly to begin with if you need the TMX for concordance purposes, but is a matter of seconds to put right if you find a misalignment. You can then ask it to re-align from the place where you have made the correction.
It's not perfect, but it's a lot quicker and easier than most other solutions I've found.

That said, it may not handle TMX files natively but may work bette
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Samuel how well do you know LiveDocs?
That is its huge plus, as alignment can be carried out fairly roughly to begin with if you need the TMX for concordance purposes, but is a matter of seconds to put right if you find a misalignment. You can then ask it to re-align from the place where you have made the correction.
It's not perfect, but it's a lot quicker and easier than most other solutions I've found.

That said, it may not handle TMX files natively but may work better on an export - I have no experience with that, but would be interested to find out.
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Samuel Murray
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@Anthony Aug 25, 2016

Anthony Green wrote:
[With LiveDocs,] alignment can be carried out fairly roughly to begin with... but is a matter of seconds to put right if you find a misalignment.


Okay, but if MemoQ is not the tool in which the translation will be done, can a translator who owns a MemoQ licence take a misaligned TMX, convert it to MemoQ's format, and then use LiveDocs to fix the misalignment entirely, before saving the TM and converting it back to TMX?


 
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For LiveDocs… Aug 25, 2016

…the procedure, as I understand, can be as follows:
1. Export TMX to a bilingual table (CSV or whatever).
2. Split (re-save) the table into two documents with the source and target separated.
3. Feed the two resulting documents to LiveDocs.


 
Samuel Murray
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@Esp Aug 25, 2016

esperantisto wrote:
For LiveDocs, the procedure, as I understand, can be as follows:
1. Export TMX to a bilingual table (CSV or whatever).
2. Split (re-save) the table into two documents with the source and target separated.
3. Feed the two resulting documents to LiveDocs.


So, if I understand you correctly, the answer to my original question would be "no", MemoQ does not have the functionality to fix misalignments in a misaligned TMX.


 
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No Aug 25, 2016

No, I have never seen any sign of such a functionality.

 
jmacan
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Fixing TMX alignment in memoQ Nov 6, 2016

Sorry to arrive so late but, there is a solution offered by memoQ. You can import the TMX in the translation editing interface for modification. At this point, it can be modified there, or added to a LiveDocs where the alignment can be modified. The fixed LiveDoc file can then be exported to a TM and, if necessary, exported from here to a TMX.

 
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Kids, just say no Nov 6, 2016

esperantisto wrote:

…the procedure, as I understand, can be as follows:
1. Export TMX to a bilingual table (CSV or whatever).
2. Split (re-save) the table into two documents with the source and target separated.
3. Feed the two resulting documents to LiveDocs.

That's a procedure I would only recommend in the most dire circumstances. If some work was already done on the TMX to get the segments paired up correctly, you are throwing that in the trash by starting over like that. And it's futzy and a possible source of errors (character entity corruption aka "what are these &s and "quot;s in my text?" wouldn't surprise me).


 


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