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;; omegat - Cross-platform Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tool
;; Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Raymond: Martin
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;; Last updated Apr. 18, 2006 by Raymond: Martin.
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;; Includes portions of OmegaT: Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Keith Godfrey et al.
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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; omegat 1.4.6 Read Me
- General Information
- Notes concerning omegat and Java
- Participation in omegat+ Project
- Building omegat from Source Code
- How to get Help or Report Bugs
- Release Specific Details
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- General Information
Current information is available at: http://sf.net/projects/omegatplus
Other information can be obtained via the omegat+ users group: http:///groups.google.com/group/omegatplus
omegat is a cross-platform Computer Assisted Translation tool with inexact (fuzzy) matching, translation memory, concordance search, glossary function, translation projects, and multiple file type support.
Due to copyright concerns, only minimal documentation for the application is provided at this time. Users may use the OmegaT users manual, available from http://sf.net/projects/omegat in the files section. There are some minor differences between omegat and OmegaT for similar versions, so users should not encounter difficulties by using that manual.
To use that manual in omegat just install it into the appropriate directory. The help browser (accessible in the menus) expects the documentation to be installed under the directory 'doc/manual', not 'doc' as in OmegaT. Create the directories and move the documentation, all the subdirectories starting with a two letter language code (e.g. en for English, fr for French, etc.) and any files, into 'doc/manual'. Start omegat and the help should be accessible now. Restarting will be necessary if the help browser was already opened, due to the lack of refresh capability from the OmegaT legacy.
Please bare with us, a new manual is in the works for a future release.
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omegat is a derivative of OmegaT (see http://sf.net/projects/omegat for further details).
omegat 1.4.x requires the Java Runtime Environment version 1.4 or higher be installed on your system. It is available from: http://java.sun.com
Windows and Linux users may need to install Java if it is not already available on their system.
Mac OSX need not be concerned about Java usually, a version is already installed on their machines.
On Windows and Mac, users should be able to launch omegat by double-clicking on the omegat.jar file.
After installing java, modify the system path variable so that it includes the directory where the java application resides.
To run omegat from a console, change to the installation directory and enter
- ./omegat (Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, other UNIX - case sensitive!)
- omegat.bat (Windows)
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omegat is a derivative of OmegaT (originally the work of Keith Godfrey)
omegat is the work of Raymond: Martin and is a fork of the OmegaT project. Please see documentation included with OmegaT for full information with regard to copyrights, licence, and credits for all involved on that project.
- Credits
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- Localization:
Alle Chue (Chinese - simplified)
- Software Development:
Raymond: Martin
- Other:
Raymond: Martin
Source Code:
omegat is an open source project hosted on sourceforge (http://sf.net). As such, the source code is available via read access on their CVS server to all users. Please see the CVS page on the sourceforge omegat project (http://sf.net/projects/omegatplus) for access details. CVS read and write access is available to omegat project members/developers.
Please feel free to obtain the source code and use it, in accord with the terms of the GPL licence it is distributed under. The same conditions apply to the OmegaT source code (obtain it via http://sf.net/projects/omegat) upon which omegat is based. Any contributions to the development of omegat from use of the program and its source code are welcome.
To contribute to omegat development, get in touch with the developers at:
http://sf.net/projects/omegatplus
To translate omegat's user interface, user manual or other related documents, read (OmegaT):
http://www.omegat.org/omegat/translation-info.html
And subscribe to the translators' list:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/omegatplus-l10n
For other kind of contributions, subscribe first to the user group at:
http://groups.google.com/group/omegatplus/
And get a feel of what is going on in the omegat world ...
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For those who want to compile the application from source code (and hack the code or otherwise), Java software development tools are necessary.
My personal recommendation in this regard (along with IBM, HP, Motorola, BEA, and a slew of big technology business names) is the Eclipse environment, it is free and available at: http://www.eclipse.org. Either get the complete download or only those parts required along with the JDT (Java Development Tools). Full download is approximately 100MB+ compressed.
The omegat source code is available in RPM format (this can be opened even on systems that do not support RPM via the 7-zip tool, another sourceforge project.). The source code includes Eclipse project files, so all that need be done is import the source code as an exisiting project, compile, and run.
Currently, there is not a complete build.xml file for use with the 'ant' tool. The build file that is there is just to package the source code up as either a tar.gz or a tar.bz2. archive. In future, the file will be fixed to enable building with ant and so forth. Eclipse does not need this file to build omegat or construct jar files, etc.
Support for NetBeans or other IDE is not provided.
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In the event of program errors (as evidenced by a stack dump in the command line window or file 'log.txt'), please note the error and a brief description of how the error occured and file the bug to the omegat project on the bugs page.
Do not forget to attach the 'log.txt' file.
If your problem does not need a bug report, ask for help at: http://groups.google.com/group/omegatplus/
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Please see the file 'release-notes.txt' for release specific information.