Xbench equivalent available for OSX?

[Will Helton]

Hi Folks,

Is there anything out there that is a dependable OSX equivalent to
Xbench under Windows?

Anything other than CheckMate, please. I've never gotten along with this
tool.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Regards,

Will

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Will

I think the answer in no, but OmegaT does have Q&A checks as external scripts that are quite useful.

Also, is there any reason why you can't use XBench in a virtualized Windows environment ?

Jean-Christophe

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[Will Helton]

Hi JC,

Thanks. I don't use OmT anymore. Every time I load a project the CPU ramps up to about 400% and freezes my MBP.

I don't like using virtual machines. It times time to load them, they take up space I need for other things, etc.

Basically, I'm a problem child, I know. :D

I appreciate you getting back to me so quickly.

All the best,

Will

[Hans List]

Dear William,

Which extra QA checks do you need?

Cheers,

Ionannis

[Will Helton]

Ave, Ionannis!

I'd like the ability to set up my own rules like you can in Xbench as I
have some customer-specific stuff I'd like to be able to check.

But as in so many things, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

Will

> Hans List <mailto:hans...@gmail.com>
> 25 August 2015 17:12

> Jean-Christophe Helary <mailto:jean.christ...@gmail.com>
> 25 August 2015 16:07

[Hans List]

I didn't know that this is possible. Please don't apologise. Could you give some examples of those checks.

Of course I could completely dive into this stuff and read the X-bench documentation, but currently I'm trying to enjoy a post-holliday relaxation.

[Will Helton]

One immediate use that comes to mind is that I have a customer that has
assigned specific English translations to certain German-language job
titles.

These are different in many instances from what one would normally use
in English and so having a rule that flags up each time one of these
German titles appears in a text with a note to me, the translator, to
make sure I've used the right translation would be of enormous value.

This can be done with XBench, but I have not idea if or how this would
be done with CheckMate (and I've just noticed that I can't open CM any
longer - presumably because of a Java conflict which I have neither the
time nor desire to investigate).

Any ideas, O Esteemed Colleague?

Will

> Hans List <mailto:hans...@gmail.com>

> 25 August 2015 17:53

> I didn't know that this is possible. Please don't apologise. Could you
> give some examples of those checks.
>
> Of course I could completely dive into this stuff and read the X-bench
> documentation, but currently I'm trying to enjoy a post-holliday
> relaxation.
>
>

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> On Aug 26, 2015, at 18:12, Will Helton <will....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (and I've just noticed that I can't open CM any longer - presumably because of a Java conflict which I have neither the time nor desire to investigate).
>
> Any ideas, O Esteemed Colleague?

I've probably asked that before, but have you tried running Java on a guest account ?

JC

[Will Helton]

Hi JC,

I can't remember, to be honest.

I'll try to have a go at some point. I'm just buried in work at the moment and know that if I ever start looking at this I'll just keep going until I either want to throw my computer out the window or just give up in disgust - and have lost time I should have spent working. :D

Thanks,

Will

[Hans List]

On 26 Aug 2015, at 11:12, Will Helton <will....@gmail.com> wrote:

having a rule that flags up each time one of these German titles appears in a text with a note to me, the translator, to make sure I've used the right translation would be of enormous value

In CafeTran you can use http://cafetran.wikidot.com/qa-word-lists or just a QA for terms (where you can add the notes in the glossary!)

[Will Helton]

Ah, I reckon the word list option will be the way forward.

Thanks, Hans!

Will

> Hans List <mailto:hans...@gmail.com>

> 26 August 2015 10:19

>
>
> In CafeTran you can use http://cafetran.wikidot.com/qa-word-lists or
> just a QA for terms (where you can add the notes in the glossary!)

[ir...@indo.net.id]

Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com>:

> Ah, I reckon the word list option will be the way forward.

What's wrong with a client-specific termbase, "term consistency"
checked? AA, or not?

What's wrong with QA word lists? Absent/Present is one list only (per
category), as far as I know. So if you really want to go that way,
such a list is for that client only.

H.

[Will Helton]

I've no idea how to use the term consistency check feature. Will have to look into that.

Thanks for the tip about the words file (per customer).

Will

[ir...@indo.net.id]

Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com>:

> I've no idea how to use the term consistency check feature. Will have
> to look into that.

Nothing much to look into. Just enable it, and use QA in the Menu.

H.

[Will Helton]

Can you do that with existing memories that didn't have that option set
at the time of creation?

Will

> ir...@indo.net.id <mailto:ir...@indo.net.id>
> 26 August 2015 12:51
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> Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com
> <mailto:will....@gmail.com>>:

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> Will Helton <mailto:will....@gmail.com>
> 26 August 2015 12:38

> I've no idea how to use the term consistency check feature. Will have
> to look into that.
>

> Thanks for the tip about the words file (per customer).
>
> Will
>
>

> ir...@indo.net.id <mailto:ir...@indo.net.id>
> 26 August 2015 12:13

>
> Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com>:
>
>
> What's wrong with a client-specific termbase, "term consistency"
> checked? AA, or not?
>
> What's wrong with QA word lists? Absent/Present is one list only (per
> category), as far as I know. So if you really want to go that way,
> such a list is for that client only.
>
> H.
>

> Will Helton <mailto:will....@gmail.com>
> 26 August 2015 10:32

> Ah, I reckon the word list option will be the way forward.
>

[ir...@indo.net.id]

Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com>:

> Can you do that with existing memories that didn't have that option
> set at the time of creation?

Yep.

H

[Will Helton]

Outstanding.

One last question - not related to this, though:

If you have a memory set as read-only and then accidentally run remove
duplicate segments on it (and it reports something like 250 segments
removed/cleaned up), has it actually removed the segments or has it just
tried to, but can't because it's a read-only memory?

Thanks,

Will

> ir...@indo.net.id <mailto:ir...@indo.net.id>
> 26 August 2015 15:43
>
>
> Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com
> <mailto:will....@gmail.com>>:

>
> > Can you do that with existing memories that didn't have that option
> > set at the time of creation?
>
> Yep.
>
> H
>

[ir...@indo.net.id]

Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com>:

> If you have a memory set as read-only and then accidentally run
> remove duplicate segments on it (and it reports something like 250
> segments removed/cleaned up), has it actually removed the segments or
> has it just tried to, but can't because it's a read-only memory?

It shouldn't have removed them. To avoid situations like this, I set the TMs I want Read-Only to "Locked" in the file Info. Just to be sure.

H.

[Will Helton]

Thanks, I'll try that.

Will

> ir...@indo.net.id <mailto:ir...@indo.net.id>
> 26 August 2015 15:55
>
>
> Quoting Will Helton <will....@gmail.com
> <mailto:will....@gmail.com>>:

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> 26 August 2015 15:47

> Outstanding.
>
> One last question - not related to this, though:
>

> If you have a memory set as read-only and then accidentally run remove
> duplicate segments on it (and it reports something like 250 segments
> removed/cleaned up), has it actually removed the segments or has it
> just tried to, but can't because it's a read-only memory?
>

> Will Helton <mailto:will....@gmail.com>
> 26 August 2015 15:40

> Can you do that with existing memories that didn't have that option
> set at the time of creation?
>

> Will
>
> ir...@indo.net.id <mailto:ir...@indo.net.id>

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

I'm reviving this thread to check what QA tool there is now on macOS.

I'm especially thinking of terminology checks against a (tokenized) glossary.

I know OmegaT does that to a certain extent, but there are lots of false positives and I was wondering whether other solutions existed now.

Jean-Christophe

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