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AlisaIWW
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Hello, a question to all: does any of the popular CATs have this function? I am talking about something similar to what certain extensions (the names of which elude me now) do in Open Office and in FireFox: a right-hand click on a selected word opens a customizable context menu of online search engines, which can obviously include dictionaries and encyclopedias. Thank you all in advance.
[Edited at 2009-09-23 21:06 GMT]
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Samuel Murray 
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| Some of them have it... | Sep 23, 2009 |
AlisaIWW wrote:
Does any of the popular CATs have this function?
Well, WFC has it. OmegaT doesn't. But even so, you can easily set up your browser to do multiple searches with bookmarklets, so why not just use your browser? If you use the CAT's built-in function, you are limited to the types of searches (and the number of different searches) that the CAT tool can do.
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AlisaIWW
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AVVIO ARGOMENTO | Thank you for the prompt response, Samuel. I know you are sitting down, so: | Sep 23, 2009 |
what is WFC?:-)
I do use it in FF all the time (not bookmarklets, but that extension I mentioned). The advantage of having it built into the CAT is that I don't have to copy and paste from it into the browser. Now I do see that there is something I am missing here - what is it? Oh, and you are right, of course, the context menu in the CAT would have to be customizable - like I said, it is in both OO and FF.
[Edited at 2009-09-23 15:29 GMT]
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Samuel Murray
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AlisaIWW wrote:
what is WFC?:-)
Wordfast 5.x (aka Wordfast Classic)
I do use it in FF all the time (not bookmarklets, but that extension I mentioned).
What is the name of that extension?
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Gerard de Noord
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| IntelliWebSearch | Sep 23, 2009 |
WFC is Wordfast Classic but I use the freeware IntelliWebSearch for all my searches.
Regards,
Gerard
http://www.intelliwebsearch.com/
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AlisaIWW
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AVVIO ARGOMENTO | Wordfast Classic | Sep 23, 2009 |
D'oh...:-)
The extension is Context Search. Then there is this other nice extension that lets you customize you search-engine menus (both the main one and the one that opens under the context menu). These two combined are a godsend. The annoyance is, like I said, is the constant copy-paste and switching windows. The extensio... See more D'oh...:-)
The extension is Context Search. Then there is this other nice extension that lets you customize you search-engine menus (both the main one and the one that opens under the context menu). These two combined are a godsend. The annoyance is, like I said, is the constant copy-paste and switching windows. The extension in OO (which I no longer use, and so don't have the name) lets you customize the search-engine menu. You then just select the word and hit 'search the web' or something along these lines. Gerard, is that what IntelliWebSearch does? ▲ Collapse
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| A few tools exist... | Sep 23, 2009 |
I belive OmegaT has a script called Ondiloto. CafeTran has this function built in, also IntelliWebSearch is a nice tool for this purpose.
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AlisaIWW
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AVVIO ARGOMENTO
I have installed IntelliWebSearch, and am now tinkering with the settings. It looks very promising - thanks for the tip!
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Rick Henry
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| For non-Windows users... | Sep 23, 2009 |
Just wanted to note that Intelliwebsearch can be run in Linux via Wine. It's set up to call Internet Explorer, but you can change it to call up Linux-native Firefox (or any other browser) from the notification area.
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