Working with terminology

Find below the procedures for the following tasks:

• Setting copy term option

• Auto propagating terminology

• Using terminology wildcard

• Leveraging a glossary

• Adding a term

• Editing terminology

• Adding blacklist

• Editing blacklist

• Wordfast Classic and Wordfast Pro glossary synchronization

Setting copy term option

The copy term option copies the source segment to the target segment.

To set copy term option:

1. Open Wordfast Pro and click .
   The TXML perspective appears.

2. Click Terminology > New/Select Glossary > Translations > Terminology.
   The Preferences (Filtered) Terminology dialog box appears.
   
   
    

3. Select one of the following copy term options:

• Copy only source: to copy source term from the source segment to the target segment

• Copy only target terms: to copy target term to the target segment

• Copy both source and target glossary terms: to copy both source and target terms to the target segment
   

4. Select Disable automatic fuzzy term recognition checkbox to ensure that fuzzy matches from the glossary are not leveraged.

5. Click Apply and OK.

Auto propagating terms

To auto propagate terms:

1. Follow the steps to open a file from Opening a file.
   The file appears in the Translation window. If a term from the glossary exists in the source segment, it will appear in red by default.
   Note: Ensure that a glossary is imported and selected for the project. For more information, refer to Importing a glossary.

2. Select Edit > Copy Source or click or press Alt+Insert, to copy the text from the source segment into the target segment.
   The glossary term translation is auto propagated as shown in the screenshot below.
   
   
   
   Note: The term 'Process' is followed by its translation 'Proceso'.

Using a term wildcard

To add and use a term wildcard:

1. Follow the steps to open a file from Opening a file.
   The file appears in the Translation window. If a term from the glossary exists in the source segment, it will appear in red by default.

2. Click Terminology > Edit.

3. Select the glossary that you want to edit.
   The glossary appears.

4. Double-click on the entry you want to modify.
   The Edit term dialog box appears.
   
   
    

5. Type a '*' after the term to populate all variations of the selected term. For example, the wildcard term 'Process*' will populate the target 'Proceso' for all term variations such as 'Processes', 'Processing' and so on.

6. Click Modify.
   The terminology wildcard is activated.

Leveraging a glossary

To leverage a glossary:

1. Follow the steps to open a file from Opening a file.
   The file appears in the Translation window. If a term from the glossary exists in the source segment, it will appear in red by default.
   
    

2. Select Terminology > Previous Term / Next Term or click or or press Ctrl+Alt+8 / Ctrl+Alt+9.
   The term is highlighted and selected.

3. In the target segment, place the cursor at the location where you want the translated term to appear.

4. Select Terminology > Copy Term or click or press Ctrl+Alt+0.
   The translated term appears in the target segment.
   
   

Adding terms

To add terms to a glossary:

1. Left-click and select a term in the source or target segment.

2. Click Terminology > Add Term or click .
   The Add Term dialog box appears.
   
   
    

3. Enter Source, Target and Description of the term.

4. Select the glossary to which you want to add the term.

5. Click OK.
   The new term is added.

Editing terminology

To edit terminology:

1. Click Terminology > Edit.

2. Select the glossary list that you want to edit.
   The glossary list appears.
   
   
    

3. Double-click on the entry you want to modify.
   The Edit term dialog box appears.
   
   
    

4. Enter the necessary changes and click Modify.
   The modified term appears in the glossary.

Adding blacklist

A blacklist includes words or phrases that should not be used in the target segment.

To add a blacklist:

1. Click Edit > Preferences > Terminology > Blacklist.
   The Blacklist dialog box appears.

2. Click Create, to create a new blacklist or Add, to add an existing blacklist.
   Note: the blacklist must be a tab-delimited file.

3. Browse and select the location of the new blacklist or existing blacklist.

4. Type a symbolic name and select the language code of the blacklist.

5. Click OK.
   The newly created or selected blacklist appears in the Blacklist List.
   
   
    

6. Select Selected check box, to use the blacklist during translation.

7. Select Read only check box, if you do not want to update the blacklist. (Optional)

8. Click OK.
   A new or existing blacklist is created or opened for the project.

Editing blacklist

To edit an existing blacklist:

1. Open Wordfast Pro and click .
   The TXML perspective appears.

2. Click on the Edit blacklist icon and select the blacklist as shown in the screenshot below.
   
   
   The Blacklist appears as a separate tab.
   
   
    

3. To add a term to the blacklist, click Add.
   The Add Term dialog box appears.
   
   
    

4. Enter the Forbidden and Suggested term.

5. Click Add.
   The forbidden term and suggestion appears in the blacklist.

6. To modify a term from the blacklist, select the term and click Modify.
   The Modify Term dialog box appears.
   
   
    

7. Edit the Forbidden and Suggested term and click Modify.

8. To delete a term from the blacklist, select the term and click Remove.
   A warning message appears.
   
   
    

9. Click Yes to delete the blacklisted term.

Wordfast Pro and Wordfast Classic glossary synchronization

Wordfast Professional (WF Pro) and Wordfast Classic (WFC) can synchronize their glossaries. A WF Pro glossary must be created for WFC to use it. The WF Pro glossary file is located here: C:\Users\User\.wf_workspace\glossaries. Beside the Lucene glossary folder, which has been created in the past, a TXT file is created as well. WFC must connect to this TXT glossary file (gl_1). Once the WF Pro glossary is created WF Pro must be closed in order for WFC to connect to the WF Pro glossary. Every change on the glossary file will be reflected and visible on both sides.

WF Pro cannot connect to the WFC glossary file, but it can import it and WFC can reuse it by connecting to WF Pro glossary file.

The example below demonstrates glossary synchronization between WF Pro and WFC.

1. Open a word document and activate Wordfast Classic as shown in the screenshot below.
   
   
    

2. Click on a term that you would like to add to the glossary and press Ctrl + Alt + T.
   The Edit entry dialog box appears.
   
   
    

3. Enter the source and/or target of the term and click OK.
   The term is added to the glossary. For more information refer to the Wordfast Classic training material available here: http://www.wordfast.com/store_download.html.

4. Open Wordfast Pro and click on the Edit icon and select the glossary that was updated using Wordfast Classic.
   The new term will appear in the glossary as shown in the screenshot below.