Re: [OmT] Trados MultiTerm glossary format - supported or not?

[Andrzej S. <privat@...>]

Ave,

> At present (version 1.4.0), OmegaT only supports a single glossary format: its 
> own .tab format. [...]

I see.

Perhaps it is a good situation - it is easier to write standalone 
converters to/from various other formats than chase the moving target 
with the whole application.

> It's a long time now since I imported a Multiterm glossary, but a glossary 
> exported as a txt file from the version of Multiterm I had (Multiterm '95 
> Plus) was a tab-delimited list, no more complicated than that. It's possible 
> that the format of text files exported form Multiterm has since changed.

I can't remember Multiterm 95, but in versions 5.x and 6.x the glossary 
export format is different, somewhat SGML-like; a single entry looks 
like this:

**
<English>apple
<Deutsch>Apfel
<comment>a kind of fruit
...

Individual enties are separated by the "**" lines.
(How such entries are imported into MultiTerm depends on glossary 
structure, which is defined in MultiTerm and not included in the .txt file.)

As one can see, converting such a file to DSV text or vice versa is 
pretty straightforward. Still, the mention is Help is a bit misleading...

> Multiterm's *internal* format is a different matter altogether. OmegaT can't 
> handle that.

Of course.  :-)

Best regards,
-- 
Andrzej Sawula