The aim of the present article is to contend the widespread but largely unfounded claim that MAHT tools (popularly known as translator’s workbenches) are best suited for translating so-called technical texts. The article calls for establishing a separate MAHT tool-specific text typology by presenting what are – in the author’s opinion – the most important features characteristic of an MAHT-suitable text. It transpires that it is difficult to simply relate this particular type of text to any of the existing classifications of translation-related or general text typologies (such as those advocated by, for example, Hatim & Mason 1990; Reiß 1983; Snell-Hornby 1988 or Kussmaul 1997)) since the existing methodologies do not take MAHT-specific attributes into account. Therefore, the present article calls for an empirical, corpus-based study that would help establish the relation between the proposed underlying features and actual text types as described elsewhere.