Forum: Transit support
Topic: How unrealistic are Transit's fuzzy matches?
Poster: wotswot
Post title: Still my CAT tool of choice
I agree with Hans about XLIFF (Transit STILL treats it as a "project format" rather than a file format), but for all its faults, Transit is still my favourite CAT tool, after eleven years of using it on a daily basis, sometimes in combination with Studio, which I use mainly to convert XLIFF files or SDLPPX projects to TTX with Legacy converter for translation in Transit.
Why? For 5 main reasons:
- lifetime licence
- macros, which for me save a lot of time to-ing and fro-ing between keyboard and mouse
- "horizontal layout" option: easier to see complete adjacent segments containing very long sentences (notoriously omnipresent in French, legal French in particular), less reliance on preview, IMHO it's a more "natural" layout than the side-by-side layout
- the load and save options in Find/Replace, with which I've built up an extensive library of F&R items over the years, including many regexes (unfortunately in STAR grep, Transit's proprietary regex flavour), whereas in Studio you would have to create your own external F&R regex library and copy and paste each time
- the "bubble windows" option for many windows, saving valuable screen space, whereas in Studio you have to use the mouse and click on tabs to see different windows. Studio devotees say this is easily solved with a second monitor, which I have, but I prefer to use the second monitor for external resources and my permanent browser window (and Alt-tabbing/Ctrl-tabbing in Windows 10/Microsft Edge is such a pain, much more user-friendly in Firefox).
As for Transit's fuzzy percentages (or Studio's for that matter), I've given up trying to fathom them out!
Topic: How unrealistic are Transit's fuzzy matches?
Poster: wotswot
Post title: Still my CAT tool of choice
I agree with Hans about XLIFF (Transit STILL treats it as a "project format" rather than a file format), but for all its faults, Transit is still my favourite CAT tool, after eleven years of using it on a daily basis, sometimes in combination with Studio, which I use mainly to convert XLIFF files or SDLPPX projects to TTX with Legacy converter for translation in Transit.
Why? For 5 main reasons:
- lifetime licence
- macros, which for me save a lot of time to-ing and fro-ing between keyboard and mouse
- "horizontal layout" option: easier to see complete adjacent segments containing very long sentences (notoriously omnipresent in French, legal French in particular), less reliance on preview, IMHO it's a more "natural" layout than the side-by-side layout
- the load and save options in Find/Replace, with which I've built up an extensive library of F&R items over the years, including many regexes (unfortunately in STAR grep, Transit's proprietary regex flavour), whereas in Studio you would have to create your own external F&R regex library and copy and paste each time
- the "bubble windows" option for many windows, saving valuable screen space, whereas in Studio you have to use the mouse and click on tabs to see different windows. Studio devotees say this is easily solved with a second monitor, which I have, but I prefer to use the second monitor for external resources and my permanent browser window (and Alt-tabbing/Ctrl-tabbing in Windows 10/Microsft Edge is such a pain, much more user-friendly in Firefox).
As for Transit's fuzzy percentages (or Studio's for that matter), I've given up trying to fathom them out!