Memories and glossaries

One for each client

Open Memories and glossaries in the sidebar to see them all, with their languages, number of entries and the projects that use them. New memory and New glossary make one; give it the client’s name so new projects for that client find it.

Mark one Read only when projects should use it but never change it, such as a client’s approved memory.

Choose what a project uses

Open the project’s settings (the cog beside its name in the sidebar). Under Memories and glossaries, tick the ones the project should use, and set each one’s access:

• Read and write: matches come from it, and confirmed translations go into it.
• Read only: matches come from it, nothing is added.
• Penalty: lowers its matches by a few percent, for a memory you trust less.

Import your files

Open a memory or glossary and choose Import, or use the import button on its row. Large memories import in the background with a cancel button.

Files are read for the open project’s languages. If a file has them the other way round, Lexora offers to swap them.

Turn old translations into memory

Have the original and its translation but no memory? Open a memory and choose Align files. Pick the original and the translation; Lexora pairs the sentences. Uncertain pairs start unticked, so read them, then choose Add to memory.

When a match doesn’t show

If the memory panel stays empty for a sentence you know you translated before, choose Why no match? under it. Lexora says why, for example that the translation is in a memory this project doesn’t use, or that the match is below your minimum, and offers the fix.

The minimum match is in Settings under Minimum memory match.

Find key terms before you start

On the project’s page, or with Find key terms in the command menu (Ctrl+K), Lexora lists the words and phrases your documents repeat, with translations from your other glossaries and memories where it has them. Approve the ones you want, and they go into the project’s glossary.

Export and share

Each memory exports as TMX, Excel or CSV, and each glossary as TBX, Excel or CSV, from its row on the Memories and glossaries page. A delivery takes only the current project’s translations and the terms it uses, unless you choose otherwise.

Memory restore points

Lexora keeps a copy of your memories and glossaries when it opens, every hour while they change, and just before many entries are removed. The newest ten are kept. To go back, open Settings, find Memory restore points and choose one.