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Checking monolingual files with Xbench
Thread poster: Andrus Lauringson
Andrus Lauringson
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Dec 2, 2022

Hello!

Is there an easy way for using Xbench QA check on a monolingual file?

At the Xbench forums there's a suggestion to use a Word macro for making a docx accessible for Xbench:
https://forum.xbench.net/t/checking-monolingual-files-docx-with-xbench/326/6

But it seems that it just saves the file as a .txt file, Xben... See more
Hello!

Is there an easy way for using Xbench QA check on a monolingual file?

At the Xbench forums there's a suggestion to use a Word macro for making a docx accessible for Xbench:
https://forum.xbench.net/t/checking-monolingual-files-docx-with-xbench/326/6

But it seems that it just saves the file as a .txt file, Xbench reads it and says "untranslated segments" without actually checking the content.

Perhaps there's a reasonably easy way for turning .docx files into bilingual .xliff files without opening a CAT software, creating a new project, then copying source to target, etc.?

Thanks in advance!
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Samuel Murray
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Can you even do that? Dec 2, 2022

Andrus Lauringson wrote:
Is there an easy way for using Xbench QA check on a monolingual file?

If I look at the available checks, they all seem to relate to comparing a source text against a translation.

Can you give some examples of what kinds of things you'd like to check?

Perhaps there's a reasonably easy way for turning .docx files into bilingual .xliff files without opening a CAT software, creating a new project, then copying source to target, etc.?

Well, you can copy the text file's content into column A in Excel, then duplicate column A into column B, and save it as TXT. This creates a "bilingual" TXT file. Then, when you add the file to Xbench, don't accept Xbench's default guess of "Tab Delimited File" but choose "Wordfast Glossary" instead. But I don't see how this will help you... since AFAIK Xbench can't check monolingual files.


[Edited at 2022-12-02 13:12 GMT]

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Andrus Lauringson
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More info Dec 2, 2022

Samuel Murray wrote:
If I look at the available checks, they all seem to relate to comparing a source text against a translation. Can you give some examples of what kinds of things you'd like to check?


You can add personal checks – by using the checklist manager, you can add hazard words (officialese, common typos), and add punctuation rules that check the quality of the target text. It is (would be) especially handy when reviewing work from another human translator.


Well, you can copy the text file's content into column A in Excel, then duplicate column A into column B, and save it as TXT. This creates a "bilingual" TXT file. Then, when you add the file to Xbench, don't accept Xbench's default guess of "Tab Delimited File" but choose "Wordfast Glossary" instead.


Thank you, it looks like a pretty good solution.
 


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