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Jul 5, 2021

Dear colleagues,

Here's my problem (or rather my wish list):

After having translated a document with Cafetran, I sometimes prefer the use the preview document to refine / edit my translation. This is just my working method - I tend to grasp a text better if I can see it in its layout (not the way most people work, I know, but there you are ...)

What I am looking for is a way to highlight (color?) all locked segments so that I can easily ignore them and don... See more
Dear colleagues,

Here's my problem (or rather my wish list):

After having translated a document with Cafetran, I sometimes prefer the use the preview document to refine / edit my translation. This is just my working method - I tend to grasp a text better if I can see it in its layout (not the way most people work, I know, but there you are ...)

What I am looking for is a way to highlight (color?) all locked segments so that I can easily ignore them and don't modify them. Any ideas how I could achieve this? I'm working on Mac ...

Thanks for your ideas,
Irene ▲ Collapse
 
Hans Lenting
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Workaround Jul 5, 2021

ibz wrote:

What I am looking for is a way to highlight (color?) all locked segments so that I can easily ignore them and don't modify them. Any ideas how I could achieve this? I'm working on Mac ...


Locked segments in Studio projects?
 
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No Jul 5, 2021

Hi Hans,
No, locked segments in Cafetran. Once I create the preview, I can no longer see which segments I have locked. It would be very nice to be able to mark / color them in some way so that I know straight away that these sentences mustn't be edited. Know what I mean?
 
Hans Lenting
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Procedure Jul 5, 2021

Locked segments in CafeTran Espresso:

a

Insert { at start of unlocked segments:

b

Insert } at end of unlocked segments:

c

Export preview document:

1

In MS Word, highlight all text with yellow, afterwards set highlight colour to white:

2

Find and replace with wild cards and white highlight:

3

Result:

4

Edit: I used an incorrect document. Here's how the exported document should look:

Screen Shot 2021-07-05 at 20.39.56

With locked segments highlighted in yellow:

Screen Shot 2021-07-05 at 20.40.48




[Edited at 2021-07-05 18:42 GMT]

Jean Dimitriadis
 
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Thank you Jul 6, 2021

Many thanks, Hans!
I tried this workaround but it doesn't work...
Somehow I couldn't even replace \A with {. Furthermore I work with Mac and Word Office, not MS Word. So my "Find and Replace" pop-up looks different.
 
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Oh ... Jul 6, 2021

I just saw that by replacing \A by {, the brackets are inserted before all untranslated segments (I used a new document to test your solution, with just a few translated segments, locked and not locked).
 
Hans Lenting
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Please try again Jul 6, 2021

ibz wrote:

Many thanks, Hans!
I tried this workaround but it doesn't work...


It does work. I've tested it. You made some mistakes. Did you select the Regular expression radio button?

Somehow I couldn't even replace \A with {. Furthermore I work with Mac and Word Office, not MS Word. So my "Find and Replace" pop-up looks different.


As you can see in the images, I'm on Mac too. I'm using the Mac version of Word:

Screenshot 2021-07-06 at 08.50.27

So you should be good. We can arrange a TeamViewer session, if you want. You can contact me via e-mail for the details. You have my address.
 
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Will do! Jul 6, 2021

Thanks again! I'll try again and let you know.
Also thanks for your offer to help my via TeamViewer. If necessary, I'll contact you privately (next week at the earliest, as I am currently working from outside the office and using TeamViewer myself to access my computer).
Irene
 
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Works like a charm Jul 7, 2021

Just in case someone else is also interested in this function: The solution Hans proposed works like a charm! Thanks again.

Hans Lenting
Jean Dimitriadis
 


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