I need your kind help with a (Word 2007) macro that would enable me to manually create termbases.
To this end I use bitexts - in essence plain txt files with texts in two languages. Sentences (or segments) are aligned, i.e. tab-separated.
I can easily copy them to Word for further processing.
Example:
Quote:
1. The seat of the Court shall be established at The Hague in the Netherlands ("the host State").{THIS IS WHERE A TAB SEPARATES THE SEGMENTS/SENTENCES}(1) Sjedište suda je u Den Haagu, Nizozemska ("država domaćin").
2. The Court shall enter into a headquarters agreement with the host State, to be approved by the Assembly of States Parties and thereafter concluded by the President of the Court on its behalf.{TAB AGAIN}(2) Sud s državom domaćinom zaključuje ugovor o sjedištu kojeg potvrđuje Skupština država stranaka te nakon toga u ime Suda zaključuje njegov Predsjednik.
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Now, I would like to be able to copy/select the term
seat of the Court from the first sentence and its equivalent
Sjedište suda, and preferably have them both pop up pasted in an input box, with some sort of delimiter (say, a pipe or whatever).
Why the input box? Because I would like to instantly edit the source and target terms (mostly gender-, number- and case-related declension issues in Croatian).
The resulting termbase should be "written" either in a new file or appended to the end of the document, but nevertheless like this:
Quote:
seat of the Court{TAB OR PIPE OR SOME OTHER DELIMITER}sjedište suda
host State{DELIMITER}država domaćin
President of the Court{DELIMITER}predsjednik Suda
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(Mind the changes in Croatian equivalents.)
Please note that I have already made two macros for a similar on-the-fly adding of terminology to the end of the document, but I would really like to avoid excessive post-editing and the ever proverbial various faux pas. I do believe that the inputbox method is the only way to go. However, I am a total moron in this field, and hence this appeal.
Thank you!