Reasons for using TMX files for terms
Since you can open TMX files as normal projects (via the Project Manager), you can perform some actions on your terminology that are not possible with the tab-delimited format:
- In the Open Memory dialogue you can set the matching type to Fuzzy. For glossaries you would have to use regular expressions to achieve this.
- In the Memory Filter dialogue you can filter on properties or regular expressions, in order to only load term pairs that match with certain properties or regular expressions.
- In the QA menu you can perform some useful checks on your terms (Check spelling in target segments, Initial capitalization check, Double words check).
- In the Task menu you can use Delete filtered TMX units to remove all term pairs where source or target term match with a filter condition (via the Find and Replace dialogue).
- You can load the TMX file for terms to a database, which theoretically means that you can store more term pairs when you have a limited amount of RAM available.
