Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Working with Wordbee - shortcuts do not work
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dorothee
[quote]Dorothee Rault wrote:
I am working for a client on a Wordbee web platform and have the recurrent problem that my shortcuts (for example for non-breaking spaces (Alt + 0160) and italics) do not work. [/quote]
1. It may be that ordinary non-breaking spaces don't work because you are entering text into Wordbee using a browser interface. Can you type working non-breaking into the ProZ.com reply form's "title" and "body" fields? Try it (when you reply). I just tried it, and I could not. Some characters simply can't be typed in ordinary text entry fields in a web browser. If you need to use non-breaking spaces, you should ask the client how to do it. It may be that you need to enter them as a special tag.
2. I rarely use Wordbee, so I can't remember, but: doesn't Wordbee use tags for formatting? This means that you can't select text and make it "italic" by just pressing the shortcut that works in most other tools (e.g. Ctrl+I), but you have to add "italics" tags to your text. And I'm not sure if you can add tags in Wordbee if the tags are not already present in the source text.
Topic: Working with Wordbee - shortcuts do not work
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dorothee
[quote]Dorothee Rault wrote:
I am working for a client on a Wordbee web platform and have the recurrent problem that my shortcuts (for example for non-breaking spaces (Alt + 0160) and italics) do not work. [/quote]
1. It may be that ordinary non-breaking spaces don't work because you are entering text into Wordbee using a browser interface. Can you type working non-breaking into the ProZ.com reply form's "title" and "body" fields? Try it (when you reply). I just tried it, and I could not. Some characters simply can't be typed in ordinary text entry fields in a web browser. If you need to use non-breaking spaces, you should ask the client how to do it. It may be that you need to enter them as a special tag.
2. I rarely use Wordbee, so I can't remember, but: doesn't Wordbee use tags for formatting? This means that you can't select text and make it "italic" by just pressing the shortcut that works in most other tools (e.g. Ctrl+I), but you have to add "italics" tags to your text. And I'm not sure if you can add tags in Wordbee if the tags are not already present in the source text.
