Trados 2017 and numbers autopropagation
Thread poster: Don Alejandro
Don Alejandro
Don Alejandro
Russian Federation
Oct 11, 2018

Hello!

I've been dealing with quite a lot of number heavy documents recently and I was wondering whether there is a way to substitute couple of hours of manual work. The problem is the following - I have, let's say, 100 segments, that looks like something like this:

Feathered Little Dragon Lv1
Feathered Little Dragon Lv2
Feathered Little Dragon Lv3
Feathered Little Dragon Lv4
Feathered Little Dragon Lv5

I assume there is some technic
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Hello!

I've been dealing with quite a lot of number heavy documents recently and I was wondering whether there is a way to substitute couple of hours of manual work. The problem is the following - I have, let's say, 100 segments, that looks like something like this:

Feathered Little Dragon Lv1
Feathered Little Dragon Lv2
Feathered Little Dragon Lv3
Feathered Little Dragon Lv4
Feathered Little Dragon Lv5

I assume there is some technical matter involved, because as for the moment when I translate the first segment with "Translation 1 lvl" and press confirm and move to next segment, instead of making all the consecutive segments like "Translation 2 lvl", "Translation 3 lvl", etc. it automatically inserts the previous translated segment with a Draft status.

The thing is, that if I change the source (for testing purposes only, I can't deliver files with changed source segments) to something like this:

Feathered Little Dragon Lv 1
Feathered Little Dragon Lv 2
Feathered Little Dragon Lv 3
Feathered Little Dragon Lv 4
Feathered Little Dragon Lv 5

Autopropagation will deal with such segments without a blink; so the problem must be that the numbers are "glued" to other words/letters, so Trados does not see it as a proper number to autosubstitute.

Is there anything I can do with such segments to force the autopropogation of numbers? If the translation looked like "Translation lvl 2", I could use a trick with copying the source into target and then simply change all "Feathered Little Dragon", but the appropriate order of words is already in client's TM ("Translation 2 lvl"), so this won't work too well.
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Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd

Local time: 15:45
German to English
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Number propagation Oct 12, 2018

You could write a simple regular expression to change the copied numbers into the appropriate format.

Adam Warren
Haluk Aka, Chartered Linguist (MCIL)
 
Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd

Local time: 15:45
German to English
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Regex for number propagation Oct 14, 2018

I also use this technique for changing European dates to US-format dates. Rather than editing each date, I copy the date from the source to the target and when the translation is finished, run a regex to reformat the dates (especially when a large number of dates are involved and possibily with different formats, such as in tables). This also reduces errors.

 
Don Alejandro
Don Alejandro
Russian Federation
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Only thing left is... Oct 17, 2018

Well, only thing left is to learn how to regex I guess ;] It appears it can solve quite a lot of issues.

 
Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd

Local time: 15:45
German to English
+ ...
Regex Oct 18, 2018

Very true. Regular expressions are a very useful and powerful tool, knowledge of which is often lacking. I was in the same situation last year, but now there is hardly a job in which I do not use them.

 


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