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How to convert TMX to tab-delimited?
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
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German to Dutch
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Nice Oct 16, 2022

Samuel Murray wrote:

Yes, so you have to first replace all whitespace characters (except spaces, duh) with replacement characters.
...
= horizontal tab


Thank you for reminding me of that one! I'll add a rule to the TextFactory.


Or just replace \n with ① and replace \t with ② throughout the file -- no need to restrict it to segments, for since you're not going to use the TMX file after this


I'll use the tab-delimited file for several purposes. One of them is ... creating a cleaned and smaller TMX. That TextFactory will be pretty straightforward.

BTW:
BBEdit introduces the Text Factory, which allows you to assemble a list of text transformations that will be applied in order to either the current document or selection (when invoked as a filter), or to a specified list of files and folders (when invoked via the Scripts menu).


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Hans Lenting
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Solution for Mac Oct 27, 2022

For a solution for Mac, see: https://www.proz.com/post/2975518#2975518
 
Jean Dimitriadis
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English to French
+ ...
Why not use CafeTran Espresso? Oct 27, 2022

Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion?

1. Create or open a project with the required language pair.
2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled
3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab)
4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary.... See more
Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion?

1. Create or open a project with the required language pair.
2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled
3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab)
4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary. A dialog will ask you to select which memory to import segments from. And if the currently selected/opened tab is not a glossary, it will first ask you to select one.

That's it.

CafeTran also includes some TM Filter options, including one called "Clean and replace foreign codes": Some TMX files from third-party tools have unusual codes in the segments such as codes inside the curly brackets or emdash, endash, tab code. CafeTran clears or replaces them with equivalent unicode characters.

https://github.com/idimitriadis0/TheCafeTranFiles/wiki/3-TM-options#tm-filter-options

If needed, prior TMX editing (including search and replace, with or without regular expressions) can also be done from within CafeTran.

[Edited at 2022-10-27 05:50 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
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Too slow Oct 27, 2022

Jean Dimitriadis wrote:

Could you simply use CafeTran Espresso for that conversion?

1. Create or open a project with the required language pair.
2. Open or Import the TMX file (or an SDLTB/TBX, which will be automatically converted to TMX), possibly not as read-only and with fragments enabled
3. Select the tab of the glossary you wish to import into (an empty Project Terms page will do, or you create a new glossary and select its tab)
4. Memory menu > Export > Export segments to glossary. A dialog will ask you to select which memory to import segments from. And if the currently selected/opened tab is not a glossary, it will first ask you to select one.

That's it.

CafeTran also includes some TM Filter options, including one called "Clean and replace foreign codes": Some TMX files from third-party tools have unusual codes in the segments such as codes inside the curly brackets or emdash, endash, tab code. CafeTran clears or replaces them with equivalent unicode characters.

https://github.com/idimitriadis0/TheCafeTranFiles/wiki/3-TM-options#tm-filter-options

If needed, prior TMX editing (including search and replace, with or without regular expressions) can also be done from within CafeTran.

[Edited at 2022-10-27 05:50 GMT]


I am familiar with this procedure. However, it is extremely slow.

Screen Shot 2022-10-27 at 09.17.09

This takes ages.

Besides that, I like to have an alternative solution that I can use as a framework and possibly integrate in my workflows.



[Edited at 2022-10-27 07:18 GMT]
 
Dan Lucas
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Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Huh Oct 27, 2022

Stepan Konev wrote:
If that MacOS text editor can mark the match, you can use the following regex:
to mark and then copy all segments to clipboard

Although I've only tried it on one file, this typically clever solution from Stepan seems to work well in Notepad++ here - much appreciated. Given that we already have the regex, it looks like an obvious choice for a tiny script in the programming language of one's choice (probably just from the command line in Perl!). I have never actually needed to convert TMX to tab-delimited, but it's nice to know that it's possible. Thanks to Hans and other contributors for the topic.

Dan
 
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