Forum: Transit support
Topic: Using regex/grep to "pre-edit" Transit files
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Horses for courses
[quote]CafeTran Training wrote:
Ever seen how Transit displays an InDesign project? It's almost like in InDesign itself. Same goes for FrameMaker. Technical translators appreciate this.[/quote]
Well, I'd describe myself as a heavy user, but I'm effectively processing files whose source is plain text. I'm sure if I were tackling InDesign or similarly complex files that display would be useful, but (fortunately?) I haven't been asked to tackle those.
The bubble is useful-ish, but it basically works as a TM. Search and replace is solid, with proper regex and the ability to save regexes too, which is unusual and useful. If we could only chain sequences of regexes I wouldn't have to use grep!
I'm locked into using Transit until next March when my license expires, at which point I may see how MemoQ works with Transit files. I thought MemoQ was a nice(r) application when I had to use it in anger for the first time a few weeks back. The question is how well it deals with Transit projects. I would not like to spend the money and then find that it doesn't work 100%.
Regards
Dan
Topic: Using regex/grep to "pre-edit" Transit files
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Horses for courses
[quote]CafeTran Training wrote:
Ever seen how Transit displays an InDesign project? It's almost like in InDesign itself. Same goes for FrameMaker. Technical translators appreciate this.[/quote]
Well, I'd describe myself as a heavy user, but I'm effectively processing files whose source is plain text. I'm sure if I were tackling InDesign or similarly complex files that display would be useful, but (fortunately?) I haven't been asked to tackle those.
The bubble is useful-ish, but it basically works as a TM. Search and replace is solid, with proper regex and the ability to save regexes too, which is unusual and useful. If we could only chain sequences of regexes I wouldn't have to use grep!
I'm locked into using Transit until next March when my license expires, at which point I may see how MemoQ works with Transit files. I thought MemoQ was a nice(r) application when I had to use it in anger for the first time a few weeks back. The question is how well it deals with Transit projects. I would not like to spend the money and then find that it doesn't work 100%.
Regards
Dan
