OmegaT 3.5 - User's Guide

Table of Contents

1. About OmegaT - introduction

1. OmegaT highlights

2. Summary of chapters

2. Learn to use OmegaT in 5 minutes!

1. Set up a new project

2. Translate the file

3. Validate your tags

4. Generate the translated file

5. Few more things to remember

3. Installing and running OmegaT

1. Windows Users

2. Linux (Intel) Users

3. Mac OS X Users

4. Other Systems

5. Drag and drop

6. Using Java Web Start

7. Starting OmegaT from the command line

8. Building OmegaT From Source

4. The user interface

1. Main OmegaT window, other windows and dialogs

2. OmegaT main window

3. Other windows

5. Menu and Keyboard shortcuts

1. Main Menu

2. Keyboard shortcuts

6. Project properties

1. Generalities

2. Languages

3. Options

4. File locations

7. File Filters

1. File filters dialog

2. Filter options

3. Edit filter dialog

8. OmegaT Files and Folders

1. Translation project files

2. User settings files

3. Application files

9. Files to translate

1. File formats

2. Other file formats

3. Right to left languages

10. Editing behavior

11. Working with plain text

1. Default encoding

2. The OmegaT solution

12. Working with formatted text

1. Formatting tags

2. Tag operations

3. Tag group nesting

4. Tag group overlapping

5. Tag validation options

6. Tag group validation

7. Hints for tags management

13. Translation memories

1. Translation memories in OmegaT

2. Reusing translation memories

3. Sources with existing translations

4. Pseudo-translated memory

5. Upgrading translation memories

14. Source segmentation

1. Segmentation rules

2. Rule priority

3. Creating a new rule

4. A few simple examples

15. Searches

1. Search window

2. Using wild cards

3. Search methods and options

4. Search results display

5. Filter entries in editor according to search

16. Search and Replace

1. Search window

17. Regular expressions

1. Regex tools and examples of use

18. Dictionaries

1. How to download and install dictionaries

2. Problems with dictionaries

19. Glossaries

1. Usage

2. File format

3. How to create glossaries

4. Priority glossary

5. Using Trados MultiTerm

6. Common glossary problems

20. Using TaaS in OmegaT

1. Generalities

2. Creating a key

3. Accessing the TaaS service

21. Machine Translation

1. Introduction

2. Google Translate

3. OmegaT users and Google Translate

4. Belazar

5. Apertium

6. MyMemory (machine)

7. Microsoft Translator

8. Yandex Translate

9. Machine translation - trouble shooting

22. Spell checker

1. Installing spelling dictionaries

2. Using spelling dictionaries

3. Hints

23. Miscellaneous subjects

1. OmegaT Console Mode

2. Automatic Java Properties Aligner

3. Font settings

4. Preventing data loss

A. Languages - ISO 639 code list

B. Keyboard shortcuts in the editor

C. OmegaT Team Projects

1. Version control - introduction

2. Sharing a project using SVN

3. Using the team project in OmegaT

D. Tokenizers

1. Introduction

2. Languages selection

E. LanguageTool plugin

1. Introduction

2. Installation and Use

F. Scripts

1. Introduction

2. Use

3. Scripting languages

G. OmegaT on the web

1. OmegaT sites and OmegaT SourceForge project

2. Bug reports

3. Contributing to OmegaT project

H. Shortcuts customization

1. Shortcuts customization

2. Project Menu

3. Edit Menu

4. GoTo Menu

5. View Menu

6. Tools Menu

7. Options Menu

8. Help Menu

I. Legal notices

1. For the documentation

2. For the application

J. Acknowledgements

1. Thank you all!

Index