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Should I use project glossaries or client glossaries or subject glossaries?

I'd advise you to use project glossaries for small in-between projects (like a flyer, letter etc.) that don't relate to your normal projects. Here, you can use project glossaries to maintain terminological consistency.

For all other projects I'd advise you to create client glossaries. If your clients work in different subject fields, you can create several subject glossaries per client.

Should I use generic glossaries besides specialised client glossaries?

Yes, I think that you should. Of course, you can get a lot of generic terms from the available MT systems very easily, but you'll notice that these MT systems don't maintain consistency between segments: here's where your generic glossary comes in.

Of course, you can use the suggestions of the MT systems to quickly create a generic glossary. They harvest the internet, you can harvest them, by creating your personal glossaries.

How do I add terms to the project glossary?

You can watch this quick and dirty movie: https://youtu.be/-nTiY3XiS3A

To add term pairs to a project glossary:

• Click on the icon of the yellow pencil with the green plus, or ...
• Use the keyboard shortcut that's displayed when you hover over this icon.

Should I enter term pairs with case as-is or in lowercase?

I advise you to enter everything in lowercase, except when:

• You are dealing with words that need a first letter in uppercase or are completely in uppercase (like acronyms), or ...
• When initial uppercase can be meaningful (like with German as a source language).

Lenting: I'd advise you to use project glossaries for small in-between projects (like a flyer, letter etc.) that don't relate to your normal projects. Here, you can use project glossaries to maintain terminological consistency.

Wrong advice. In those cases, you can add those terms to the Project Memory (don't forget to tick Fragments when setting it up). You'll than have a "double insurance," a consistency check with both the segments and the fragments. And you don't need another resource.

H.

Lenting: Note that with glossaries it's quite easy to change case later in a text editor (I advise Notepad++ for Windows, BBEdit on Mac). After all, glossaries are plain text files.

No need for third party apps for maintenance of TMX memories for Fragments (nor for Segments, of course).

• Main Maintenance: Use CT's excellent Edit mode for TMX files
• On the go maintenance (like for case change): Click on the little blue number at the end of the segment, and change whatever you like in the pop-up screen: