How do I align files with Wordfast?

[Pumpkin]

Χρησιμοποιώ για πρώτη φορά το Wordfast.

Μετέφρασα ένα κείμενο στο Word (χωρίς τη χρήση ΤΜ), πώς μπορώ τώρα να το αποθηκεύσω στην μεταφραστική μνήμη ΤΜ;
Ακολουθώ τις οδηγίες, αλλά μάλλον κάνω λάθος σε κάποια λεπτομέρεια!

Ακόμα μια ερώτηση τα λεξικά και τις μεταφραστικές μνήμες της αγοράζω;

[spiros]

Κατ' αρχάς έχεις πλήρη έκδοση του Wordfast;

Μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις το (δωρεάν) έξτρα εργαλείο +Tools για την παραλληλοποίηση:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cts/e-learning/tm_alignment/aligning_with_wordfast.html

Οι μνήμες δεν αγοράζονται, αλλά τις δημιουργείς, είτε παραλληλοποιώντας παλιά δίγλωσσα έγγραφα, είτε μεταφράζοντας με μεταφραστικό εργαλείο. Ωστόσο, υπάρχουν κάποιες δωρεάν μνήμες στην αγορά (όπως τα γλωσσάρια της Microsoft, βλέπε ενότητα Translation resources).

Alignment with Wordfast

Alignment - making TMs from a corpus of previously translated documents - has been simplified lately. So, if you kept your source documents and their corresponding translations, here's how you can make a TM out of them. The steps are clearly explained in PlusTools, this article actually serves only to encourage you to go ahead with the alignment.

You need Wordfast 5.22 (or later) installed and PlusTools 4.16b in the Word's Templates folder. Check the manuals for WF and PlusTools for the instalation procedures.
 
1.  Alignment is done with source and target documents. If you need to align only one source and one target document, go straight to B further down, otherwise...

A. Preparing the documents for alignment (for multiple documents).

A1. Copy all your source files into one folder, e.g. C:\Work\Source, and all the target files into another folder, e.g. C:\Work\Target. You might also need another folder called C:\Work\Align for the files produced during the alignment.

A2. Open MS-Word, close the empty document (there should be no document open), expand the Wordfast toolbar, and open Worfast's setup window.

A3. In Wordfast's setup window, go to Tools. Click on the word "Browse" beneath the document selection window, select one document in C:\Work\Source, and check all the documents for alignment. Click on the Extract button.

A4. Wordfast extracts the segments from the source files, according to the segmentation rules in the current ini. That means you have to be careful to have all the correct abbreviations in the abbreviation list (under Setup/segments) for the corresponding language of the documents. English abbreviations do not work with German or Macedonian (and vice versa). If this puzzles you, do not bother defining abbreviations, you can manipulate the segmentation during the actual alignment.

A5. Wordfast informs you that it has created two documents - Wf_extracted.txt and Wf_repetitions.txt. It opens them in Word and prompts you to name and save them accordingly. I suggest you save them as source_extracted.txt and source_repetitions.txt in the C:\Work\Align folder. Be careful to save them as plain txt and with Unicode format if working with non-Latin languages.

A6. Repeat A3-A5 with the target files. Resulting files are named, e.g. target_extracted.txt and target_repetitions.txt.

A7. You have all the files you need for alignment.

B. The actual alignment.

B1. Open the source and the target documents in MS-Word.

B2. Open PlusTools.

This can be tricky on some machines (like mine). If the PlusTools icon is not visible on the MS-Word toolbar (a light blue-greeinsh icon with a red plus in it), you'll need to select PlusTools.dot from MS-Word's Tools/Templates and Add-ins. Then, if the icon is still not visible, right click on the gray area where the toolbars are (outside of any toolbar) and check PlusTools. Now you'll see the icon. Click on it to open Plus Tools.

B3. If you have the two documents for alignment opened in Word (source and target), PlusTools should open with the +Align tab selected. You'll see two dropdown lists. Select the source in "Select source document", the target is automatically selected. Check "These documents have been segmented with Wordfast" if you've used the A procedure for their creation.

B4. Then select "Use classic alignment interface (table presentation, recommended)" - it is simpler for work with farely small documents. For megabytes of alignment material, choose "Use the heavy-duty alignment interface (two-document, for very large files)". Check the manual for the procedure for it (if you have huge files, you should know something more about MS-Word and Wordfast, and reading the manual would not be a problem :).

B5. Click on Start alignment.

After some flicking, you'll see a Word document with a table. The left column are the source segments, the right column the target segments. In a perfect world, you won't need to correct anything. But in our world, you'll need to use the shortcuts (buttons) next to the PlusTools icon on the toolbar.

B6. Check the alignment in the table. If target does not match the source, use the shortcuts to correct it (deleting a single cell in the target will move all the other cells up, etc.). The checking is the most tedious part of it all. It takes time.

Note: You can always save the partially finished alignment table, and continue working another time. The table has a header reminding you of that.

B7. When satisfied with the way the table is aligned, click on the PlusTools icon again.

B8. On the +Align tab, click on Create TM.

B9. Do what PlusTools prompts you to (name and save the resulting TM).

You have your precious work in a precious TM database for further exploiting.
http://www.wordfast.net/index.php?whichpage=knowledge&Task=view&questId=67