Wypuszczony w sierpniu tego roku memoQ 6.0 przeszedł jakoś bez echa. Podstawowa różnica w stosunku do wersji 5.0 polegała na tym, że program został napisany niemal całkowicie od zera, przez co zrobił się szybszy i stabilniejszy. Wprowadzono trochę zmian w interfejsie, ujednolicając go i łącząc w spójną całość elementy, które wcześniej sprawiały wrażenie chaosu. Z istotniejszych usprawnień dodano autotekst, nowy tryb przydzielania zleceń w projektach serwerowych i możliwość podziału dokumentu z zachowaniem podglądu. Dobre, przydatne zmiany, ale bez rewolucji.
Aż do teraz. W piątek firma Kilgray oficjalnie udostępniła memoQ 6.2.

One of my end clients recently introduced Sajan TM management system. As a result, instead of Trados TMs and TTX files which were a standard previously, I began to receive jobs as an Excel files, containing source segments and pre-translation (from 80% matches up) in separate columns. Additionally there’s a column with TM match percentage and some additional info/comments. And the Excel has a macro for propagating exact repetitions. Great. My task is to translate what’s missing and make sure the 100% matches strictly follow a mandatory glossary (in a separate Excel file). The general attitude was “we have a great new system, deal with it”. So I did. And since I’m sure I’m not the only one, I decided to share my solution.
Trados Studio as an internal format uses it’s own flavor of XLIFF, namely SDLXLIFF. Since these files generally adhere to quite loosely defined XLIFF standard, it is easy to open them in other tools supporting XLIFF (particularly in memoQ), translate them and insert translated file back into Studio project. Unfortunately all data on matching and segment statuses are coded in Trados-specific way, so we’ll lose this information when switching tools. Fortunately, there’s a way to keep at least segment states, because both programs “play nice” with standard XLIFF elements.
Regular expressions are special rules which allow us to find a text meeting specified conditions and do something useful with it. In memoQ, this “something useful” may mean segmentation, “auto-translation”, conversion to a tag, or including/excluding text from translation. Regular expressions can be used in memoQ to greatly extend its functionality. During this year’s 