OmegaT 4.2 - User's Guide

OmegaT team

Abstract

This document is the official user's guide to OmegaT, the free Computer Aided Translation tool. It also contains installation instructions.


Table of Contents

1. Installing and running OmegaT
1. Windows Users
2. Linux (Intel) Users
3. macOS 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
2. Menus
1. Project
2. Edit
3. Go To
4. View
5. Tools
6. Options
7. Help
3. Windows and dialogs
1. Project Properties
2. Project Files
3. Text Search
4. Text Replace
5. Aligner
6. Scripts
7. General Preferences
4. Panes
1. Editor
2. Fuzzy Matches
3. Glossary
4. Dictionary
5. Machine Translation
6. Multiple Translations
7. Notes
8. Comments
9. Status bar
5. Project folder
1. source
2. target
3. tm
4. dictionary
5. glossary
6. omegat
7. omegat.project (file)
8. .repositories
6. How To...
1. Set up a Team Project
2. Use a Team Project
3. Reuse Translation Memories
4. Prevent data loss
5. Translate a PDF file
6. Manage Right-To-Left languages
A. Dictionaries
1. How to download and install dictionaries
2. Problems with dictionaries
B. Glossaries
1. Usage
2. File format
3. How to create glossaries
4. Priority glossary
5. Common glossary problems
C. Spell checker
1. Installing spelling dictionaries
2. Using spelling dictionaries
3. Hints
D. Regular expressions
1. Regex tools and examples of use
E. 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

List of Figures

A.1. Merriam Webster dictionary - use
B.1. Glossary pane
B.2. multiple words entries in glossaries - example
C.1. Spellchecker setup
C.2. Using spellchecker
D.1. Regex Tester

List of Tables

3.1. Match pane setup
4.1. Pane widgets
4.2. Main Window - counters
D.1. Regex - Flags
D.2. Regex - Character
D.3. Regex - Quotation
D.4. Regex - Classes for Unicode blocks and categories
D.5. Regex - Character classes
D.6. Regex - Predefined character classes
D.7. Regex - Boundary matchers
D.8. Regex - Greedy quantifiers
D.9. Regex - Reluctant (non-greedy) quantifiers
D.10. Regex - Logical operators
D.11. Regex - Examples of regular expressions in translations
E.1. Project Menu
E.2. Edit Menu
E.3. GoTo Menu
E.4. View Menu
E.5. Tools Menu
E.6. Options Menu
E.7. Help Menu