Using the glossary

OmegaT supports glossaries. Your project may already contain a glossary with key terms, but you can also add terms to the glossary yourself.

Help yourself!

Adding new term pairs to the glossary might seem like extra work, but if done well it will be of valuable help to insert frequent expressions or to ensure that sensitive terms are translated consistently across the project.

Inserting terms from the glossary

When the active segment contains a source term that is in the glossary, it is underlined in blue in the source text. You will see the suggested target term in the Glossary pane, on the right.

OmegaT has predictive typing: when you start typing the first character of the target term in the glossary, the auto-completer will suggest the term. To insert it, press Enter on your keyboard.

Adding new entries to the glossary

Tip

Feeding the glossary with technical or sensitive wording or terms or expressions that appear frequently can be very useful to speed up typing, to keep consistency, to avoid typos, etc..

To add a new term entry to the glossary:

1. In the active segment, drag your mouse over the term you want to insert to select it.

2. Right click and choose Add glossary entry from the contextual menu.

   

3. In the Create Glossary Entry that will pop up, enter the target term (and any comments you want).

   

4. Press the OK button to save the new entry.