CAT tool with easily adjustable segmentation rules | Clipboard Workflow

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tool with easily adjustable segmentation rules
Poster: Hans Lenting
Post title: Clipboard Workflow

CafeTran Espresso 10 Croissant offers the Clipboard Workflow that allows you to set segmentation to parts of table cells or to multiple, adjacent table cells:

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Stage 1: Translating

In MS Word you define the translation unit (segment), e.g. by selecting three table cells:

After you have pressed CTRL+C (CMD+C), your selection will be presented as one translation unit in CafeTran Espresso 10 Croissant:

Once you have translated your translation unit, press NEXT and switch to MS Word. Paste your translation via CTRL+V (CMD+V) into the first of the three matching cells of the second column:

Stage 2: Post-segmenting

Run a macro*) that matches the segments of your translation to the corresponding source segments:

Questions

Will the source and target always have the same number of rows? Or are situations like these possible:

And:

The post-segmentation macro

Here a quick draw of the post segmentation macro in pseudo code:

• For every cell in column 2 of table 1 in the current document, check for presence of any new line characters.
  
• If a new line character is found, select the cell content from the first new line character up to the end of the cell content and cut.
  
• Go to the next cell in column 2, paste the clipboard content.
  
• Repeat from step 1.
  

[Edited at 2019-06-09 08:32 GMT]