OmegaT's default factory settings (with regards to user interface and some behaviour) are pretty old. Tweaking the default preferences by hand one by one is tedious and error-prone, especially for large teams where preferences are expected to be homogeneous across the team. This automated customization removes the burden of doing that manually from translators working in a team.
On the one hand, OmegaT provides certain preferences, where the option selected by default is not the most convenient one (as regard modern CAT tool best practices). On the other hand, OmegaT is very extensible by means of scritps and plugins.
The customization consists of tweaked preferences and configuration files as well as script and plugins.
Please follow this guide.
Alternatively, these are the basic steps (a summary of the guide above):
- Make sure file extensions are displayed in your computer, you can follow tips here.
- Install OmegaT 5.7.1, you can find it here.
- Download the customization script from here. When the page shows the script, you can do Ctrl+S (or right click and choose Save). Please make sure your browser doesn't add a
.txtextension or any other (the file extension should be.groovy). - In OmegaT, go to Tools > Scripting > File > Open Script and open the customization script from the location where your browser saved it (probably in your Downloads folder).
- When the script is open in the scripting window, press the Run button.
The script will run and customize your installation. You might need to restart OmegaT at the end.
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/capstanlqc/omegat-customization/master/custo/omtlinux_custom_installer.sh)"
Please follow this guide (originally written for OmegaT version 4.3.2 but it should work too with latest versions).