CAT tool with easily adjustable segmentation rules

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tool with easily adjustable segmentation rules
Poster: Csaba Lehel

Hi,
I would need your advice. I work on a long term volunteer subtitling project (now for more than 1,5 years). So far I used only MS Word, now look for a CAT tool. Translation is normally done in a doc or docx table, left column for source, right for target. There is one special problem: since this will be subtitle, an average sentence is split into a few cells (to make sure that the subtitle would not be too long, the text has to fit into just one line within a cell). For most CAT software every cell of a table is considered a new sentence. Is there an easy way to set up a CAT with segmentation rules to see a sentence spread across like 3-5 cells to be still a sentence? Of course there are ways to modify the files, but there are many of them, and it would be much easier to teach a CAT once and for all that a sentence is still a sentence, even if it is spread across many cells. Of course it would also help, if the CAT software is easy to use, free, etc. But the important point it has to function.

Thanks for your help in advance!
Csaba