This utility processes TMX documents and return TMX documents. Tasks done with this utility include
conversion between TMX versions and TMX cleaning.
TRADOSconversion
As you maybe know, TRADOS is a company producing computer software for translators. It includes WorkBench
which imports TMX files. Unfortunately, the version I used do not import TMX version 1.4.
This process is done using the switch "-toTrados":
tmx2tmx -toTrados file.tmx > trados.tmx
TMXCleaning
Specially when translation memories are created from anotated text, or extracted directly from the
Internet using any automatic method. This switch is used to remove junk in translation units.
This option tries to remove junk from TMX files, like empty pairs where one of the sides is empty, or
removing other junk type.
Use it this way:
tmx2tmx -clean file.tmx > file2.tmx
ConcatenatingTMX
tmx2tmx -cat file1.tmx ... filen.tmx > file.tmx
ls | grep '.tmx$' | tmx2tmx -cat > file.tmx
Selectlanguages
Select a bunch of languages:
tmx2tmx -select=PT,EN,FR huge.tmx > pt-en-fr.tmx