AHK as a translation assisting tool, replacing words

Sieceres

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I'm pretty sure this can be done, but I don't know how! Let's say I'm translating from English to Spanish. What I would like to do is when I mark a word, let's say I mark the word "friend", it would be automatically replaced by "amigo" when I press a hotkey. The translation program I'm using "forces me" to do one sentence at a time, so the normal replace function will do no good.

Even better would be if it scans the sentence for known terms (upon pressing a hotkey) and automatically replaces them. Any ideas?

- Posted 02 July 2008 - 08:42 AM

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Even better would be if it scans the sentence for known terms (upon pressing a hotkey) and automatically replaces them. Any ideas?

MyDictionary.txt

friend|Freund
BoBo|BoBo
colleague|Kollege
Run|Ausführen
Cancel|Abbrechen
Start|Start
Subject|Titel

FileRead, Content, My.txt ; Text to translate
Loop, Read, MyDictionary.txt
{
   StringSplit, Word, A_LoopReadLine, |
   StringReplace, Content, Content, %Word1%, %Word2%, All
   ClipBoard := Content ; keep changed text
   }
FileAppend, %Content%`n, MyTranslatedFile.txt
Run, Notepad MyTranslatedFile.txt,, Max

Not tested & and not exactly what you want, but should give you an idea ... 8)