To open my first project, I run, er, Start.jar.
Since you cannot have Start.jar in the Dock, you will have to double-click its icon, or you can hit Command+Space to activate Spotlight (I gave up on QuickSilver, Spotlight is faster and more comprehensive), and start typing: Start.jar. You probably only need to enter S or St, and you can hit Return to start CafeTran. To have an icon in the Dock, you could create an Automator workflow, but that would be an extremely simple one, and its icon may cause confusion if you have other Automator workflows in your dock. Any ideas to solve this minor problem?
Choose your project in the CT pop-up window, and there's your text to be translated. And hardly anything else. To begin translating, click the Start icon, or go to Translation > Start translation (Shortcut: Control+Alt+Home). Now there's the first sentence to be translated, and at the bottom from left to right, Google and Bing suggestions, the complete XML file to be translated, Memory 1 (empty because we haven't done anything yet), and a list of frequent terms. The latter doesn't seem particularly useful to me, but I can be wrong. As a matter of fact, I can be wrong about just about anything on this subject matter, so please educate me.
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This set-up will probably work fine for first-time CAT tool users. "Switchers" however, will be tempted to use their "old" databases.
You CAN add Start.jar to the Dock. Find and select it in the Finder, and next drag this file to the Dock. You should drag it to the right of the dashed divider line that separates the trash from your applications.
ReplyDeleteThe Frequent terms function shows the number of occurrence of a particular phrase in the document. Based on this information you can add any of these frequent phrases to your terms memory. If you don't use this function you can switch it off in Edit | Options | Workflow | Extract frequent terms.
ReplyDeleteYep. You're right, Igor. I updated "The Dock."
ReplyDelete@Frequent Terms: DV3 offers the same functionality in the Lexicon. Never used it.
ReplyDeleteSince you are at the docking subject. You can open a few resources and memories in CT in separate tabs. To make it more a bit more comfortable you can dock a tab to another view or join(synchronize) them. Click with the right hand mouse button at the tab and choose as you wish. Then, the docking icon appears on the window toolbar that you docked to. To undock just click this icon.
ReplyDeleteIgor, I'm sure docking tabs is a wonderful feature, but at the moment, I'm only interested in the very basics. I want to start working in CT.
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