Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Target document formatting must be different to the Source formatting.
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Daithi
[quote]Daithi wrote:
As I understand, this is something CAT tools cannot do. As CAT tools segment the source, create a duplicate for target which translated and then put together. [/quote]
Yes, the CAT tool assumes that either the source file is already properly formatted or that the user will properly format the target file afterwards. This means that you should do one of three things:
- reformat the source file so that it has the target formatting, or
- fix formatting errors after translating the source file, or
- extract the source text as plain text, then translate it, and then create a fresh new target file by formatting the translated plain text in the proper way.
Unfortunately this requires that translators need to know how to fix or apply document formatting, and many translators do not know how to do that -- they just hope the CAT tool takes care of that.
Topic: Target document formatting must be different to the Source formatting.
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Daithi
[quote]Daithi wrote:
As I understand, this is something CAT tools cannot do. As CAT tools segment the source, create a duplicate for target which translated and then put together. [/quote]
Yes, the CAT tool assumes that either the source file is already properly formatted or that the user will properly format the target file afterwards. This means that you should do one of three things:
- reformat the source file so that it has the target formatting, or
- fix formatting errors after translating the source file, or
- extract the source text as plain text, then translate it, and then create a fresh new target file by formatting the translated plain text in the proper way.
Unfortunately this requires that translators need to know how to fix or apply document formatting, and many translators do not know how to do that -- they just hope the CAT tool takes care of that.