Different file formats and reuse of translation memory

Question

We are currently looking for a translation program to translate the language resource files of our software. Probably these will be .properties files. Another point concerns the documentation. 
 We'll probably have to proceed this way: 1. building a translation memory when translating Help and Manual (that's an XML format that unfortunately uses a lot of inline formatting, so I want to get rid of it). 2. reuse this Tanslation Memory for translation into: - Word files - Flare Projects - Asciidoc (more or less plain test) - .properties files 
 Generally speaking, can I reuse the translation memory? Or do format-specific information prevent reuse?

Paul Filkin · Answer

Benjamin Bruecker said: Generally speaking, can I reuse the translation memory? Or do format-specific information prevent reuse? 
 Yes... keeping in mind that formatting differences and segmentation differences could influence your leverage when using different filetypes. But generally... yes.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Probably not because you'd have penalties depending on how you prepared the files. So like this for example: 
 
 I could turn off the formatting penalty and then see a 101% (or Context Match as we don't use the term 101%): 
 
 But this would not be the right thing to do because the tag formatting is incorrect. 
 You might find this article interesting: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2013/05/02/a-clean-editing-environment/

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Different file formats and reuse of translation memory