OmegaT 4.2 - User's Guide OmegaT team OmegaT 4.2 - User's Guide OmegaT team Publication date 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 1. Windows Users ......................................................................................................... 1 2. Linux (Intel) Users .................................................................................................... 2 3. macOS Users ............................................................................................................ 3 4. Other Systems .......................................................................................................... 4 5. Drag and drop .......................................................................................................... 5 6. Using Java Web Start ............................................................................................... 5 7. Starting OmegaT from the command line ............................................................... 5 8. Building OmegaT From Source ................................................................................ 9 2. Menus ............................................................................................................................. 11 1. Project .................................................................................................................... 11 2. Edit ......................................................................................................................... 12 3. Go To ...................................................................................................................... 14 4. View ........................................................................................................................ 14 5. Tools ....................................................................................................................... 15 6. Options ................................................................................................................... 16 7. Help ........................................................................................................................ 17 3. Windows and dialogs ..................................................................................................... 18 1. Project Properties ................................................................................................... 18 2. Project Files ............................................................................................................ 20 3. Text Search ............................................................................................................ 20 4. Text Replace .......................................................................................................... 23 5. Aligner .................................................................................................................... 23 6. Scripts ..................................................................................................................... 24 7. General Preferences ............................................................................................... 25 4. Panes .............................................................................................................................. 38 1. Editor ...................................................................................................................... 39 2. Fuzzy Matches ........................................................................................................ 39 3. Glossary .................................................................................................................. 40 4. Dictionary ............................................................................................................... 40 5. Machine Translation ............................................................................................... 40 6. Multiple Translations .............................................................................................. 40 7. Notes ...................................................................................................................... 40 8. Comments .............................................................................................................. 41 9. Status bar ............................................................................................................... 41 5. Project folder .................................................................................................................. 42 1. source ..................................................................................................................... 42 2. target ...................................................................................................................... 42 3. tm ........................................................................................................................... 42 4. dictionary ................................................................................................................ 43 5. glossary .................................................................................................................. 43 6. omegat ................................................................................................................... 43 7. omegat.project (file) ............................................................................................... 44 8. .repositories ............................................................................................................ 44 6. How To... ........................................................................................................................ 45 1. Set up a Team Project ........................................................................................... 45 2. Use a Team Project ................................................................................................ 47 3. Reuse Translation Memories .................................................................................. 48 4. Prevent data loss ................................................................................................... 50 5. Translate a PDF file ................................................................................................ 51 6. Manage Right-To-Left languages ............................................................................ 52 A. Dictionaries .................................................................................................................... 54 1. How to download and install dictionaries .............................................................. 54 2. Problems with dictionaries ..................................................................................... 54 B. Glossaries ....................................................................................................................... 55 1. Usage ...................................................................................................................... 55 2. File format .............................................................................................................. 56 iii OmegaT 4.2 - User's Guide 3. How to create glossaries ........................................................................................ 57 4. Priority glossary ...................................................................................................... 57 5. Common glossary problems ................................................................................... 57 C. Spell checker ................................................................................................................. 59 1. Installing spelling dictionaries ................................................................................ 59 2. Using spelling dictionaries ...................................................................................... 60 3. Hints ....................................................................................................................... 60 D. Regular expressions ...................................................................................................... 62 1. Regex tools and examples of use .......................................................................... 64 E. Shortcuts customization ................................................................................................. 66 1. Shortcuts customization ......................................................................................... 66 2. Project Menu .......................................................................................................... 67 3. Edit Menu ............................................................................................................... 67 4. GoTo Menu ............................................................................................................. 68 5. View Menu .............................................................................................................. 69 6. Tools Menu ............................................................................................................. 69 7. Options Menu ........................................................................................................