On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 17:00 +0100, Leandro Regueiro wrote: <snip>
> > TBX - TermBase eXhange - designed to store terminology/glossaries. > > TMX - Translation Memory eXhange - designed to store translation > > memories i.e. previous translations. > > > > Its not really an issue of pro's or con's they're different formats for > > different needs. > > > > At its simplest a glossary is a two column spreadsheet. TBX adds a > > number of features including the ability to include definitions, parts > > of speech, etc. Most you probably won't use but it makes your data > > available and extensible. > > You don't need them in the translation, but yes in the discussion of the > terms. > > > > TMX allows sharing of previous translations between applications. It > > will do things like abstract placeables, something glossaries will never > > do. Its designed to have lists of source and target language segments. > > TMX is like a enhaced po compendium. Some useful references: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/tmx > > Summmary. TBX is what you want: Lokalize, Virtaal and other commercial > > apps support it. > > if you want to use it for glossaries. And it is also a ISO standard. And for TBX: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/tbx -- Dwayne Bailey Associate +27 12 460 1095 (w) Translate.org.za +27 83 443 7114 (c) Recent blog posts: * xclip - where have you been all of my life! http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/dwayne/en/content/xclip-where-have-you-been-all-my-life * Virtaal on Fedora * Translate Toolkit on Fedora. Status of Virtaal and Pootle Stop Digital Apartheid! - http://www.digitalapartheid.com Firefox web browser in Afrikaans - http://af.www.mozilla.com/af/ African Network for Localisation (ANLoc) - http://africanlocalisation.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
