MTX™ and
Terminology
Management
Electronic
Dictionaries
Quick English™
and Support
Materials
Consulting
Services
MTX™ was the first terminology management system for personal computers, originally released in 1985. It was the simplest and most cost-effective tool a translator could buy to improve productivity. For many years, it was an affordable alternative to the high-priced translator workbench systems.
MTX™ uses a custom database that allows a very flexible layout for your terminology entries, and supports multiple languages and large terminology files. You can Add, Edit, Delete, and Cross-reference as many term entries as you like. It includes tools for managing your terminology files, including producing your own dictionaries for sharing with co-workers on a network.
We worked on MTX™ on and off for about 15 years, and wanted to continue working on it for another 15, but it hasn't been the focus of our business for many years now, so we have decided to formally cease development and support as of November 1st, 2007. We have decided to make MTX™ available as a free-and-unsupported download.
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here to download the MTX27.ZIP file (about 720K). This contains a single file (SETUPMTX.EXE); run this on your computer and simply follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: MTX™ version 2.7 worked on Windows 2000 and XP, but its status with Windows Vista is unknown, and compatibility is not guaranteed. (As a matter of fact, as free-and-unsupported software, nothing about it is guaranteed: not "fitness for any particular purpose", not "free from defects", not anything. While it remains copyrighted software, we grant the right to make as many copies as you need, and distribute them as you wish, provided that no fee is charged.)
As an aside, we've had several people suggest that we convert MTX™ to an "open source" project, so that others could assist in maintaining and enhancing the code base. We would love to do so; we like open source software a lot. Unfortunately, we can't, since there's an important piece of MTX™ code (some of the database indexing code) that we licensed, not wrote; and we can't open-source that, since it isn't ours. That said, if anyone's aware of a high-quality open-source "balanced tree" (or "b-tree") library in C or C++, we'd be interested in taking a look at it, to see if we could replace the third-party code in MTX™ with that, so that we could open-source MTX™.