Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How to import bilingual source text into CAT tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @David
[quote]David Oliver wrote:
Would that give me a disjointed Spanish-only text of sentences that aren't necessarily contiguous in the bilingual document? [/quote]
Yes, that is the downside of this approach.
In most CAT tools, excluded text will not be visible to you in the CAT tool (the one exception that I know of is WFC). It seems such a logical thing for CAT tools to be able to do (i.e. import hidden text but show it as locked segments), but AFAIK no CAT tool can actually do that, so you're stuck with only seeing the non-hidden text in the CAT tool.
[quote]1) take the new bilingual file (with Spanish sentences mixed in with the English document)
2) import it into DVX3
3) insert the source segments into the target column
4) export it so that I have the full text in DVX3-formatted columns
5) open the exported 2-column doc in Word & do the Find/Replace to hide English text
6) re-import the document into DVX3 [/quote]
I don't know DVX well enough to know what your steps will do, but it sounds to me like... no, your steps will not accomplish anything.
What I meant was: in the source file (i.e. the DOCX that you received from the client), hide the text that you want to be excluded. (This includes all paragraphs that don't have any Spanish text in them.) Then open the DOCX file in the CAT tool. Then translate the Spanish text, and recreate the final DOCX file, and then unhide all hidden text again.
Of course, this all depends on whether DVX excludes hidden text (though most CAT tools do). And you need to figure out how to hide text, how to view hidden text, and how to unhide text in Microsoft Word.
[Edited at 2022-10-25 07:47 GMT]
Topic: How to import bilingual source text into CAT tool
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @David
[quote]David Oliver wrote:
Would that give me a disjointed Spanish-only text of sentences that aren't necessarily contiguous in the bilingual document? [/quote]
Yes, that is the downside of this approach.
In most CAT tools, excluded text will not be visible to you in the CAT tool (the one exception that I know of is WFC). It seems such a logical thing for CAT tools to be able to do (i.e. import hidden text but show it as locked segments), but AFAIK no CAT tool can actually do that, so you're stuck with only seeing the non-hidden text in the CAT tool.
[quote]1) take the new bilingual file (with Spanish sentences mixed in with the English document)
2) import it into DVX3
3) insert the source segments into the target column
4) export it so that I have the full text in DVX3-formatted columns
5) open the exported 2-column doc in Word & do the Find/Replace to hide English text
6) re-import the document into DVX3 [/quote]
I don't know DVX well enough to know what your steps will do, but it sounds to me like... no, your steps will not accomplish anything.
What I meant was: in the source file (i.e. the DOCX that you received from the client), hide the text that you want to be excluded. (This includes all paragraphs that don't have any Spanish text in them.) Then open the DOCX file in the CAT tool. Then translate the Spanish text, and recreate the final DOCX file, and then unhide all hidden text again.
Of course, this all depends on whether DVX excludes hidden text (though most CAT tools do). And you need to figure out how to hide text, how to view hidden text, and how to unhide text in Microsoft Word.
[Edited at 2022-10-25 07:47 GMT]