Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How are you supposed to fix these kinds of CAT tool segment problems?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Unbreaker
[quote]Giles Watson wrote:
[quote]Jeff Whittaker wrote:
And please don't tell me that I'm supposed to waste my time editing and combining all these segments just for the sake of the computer!
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These are source text issues, not your CAT's fault.
It happens when the source text has been exported as a Word document from a DTP program or similar. I've just finished a largish job updating the English version of a book I translated a few years ago and I received the new Italian text with all sorts of irritatingly placed hard returns.
What I generally do is remove the unwanted breaks in Word with a search and replace routine, taking care not to delete the ones that are actually needed, before I import the text into my CAT. Charge more for source texts of this kind.
[/quote]
Hi Giles,
have you tried Unbreaker yet? It's actually very clever.
See: [url removed]
And for a short demo: [url removed] (animated GIF)
Topic: How are you supposed to fix these kinds of CAT tool segment problems?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Unbreaker
[quote]Giles Watson wrote:
[quote]Jeff Whittaker wrote:
And please don't tell me that I'm supposed to waste my time editing and combining all these segments just for the sake of the computer!
[/quote]
These are source text issues, not your CAT's fault.
It happens when the source text has been exported as a Word document from a DTP program or similar. I've just finished a largish job updating the English version of a book I translated a few years ago and I received the new Italian text with all sorts of irritatingly placed hard returns.
What I generally do is remove the unwanted breaks in Word with a search and replace routine, taking care not to delete the ones that are actually needed, before I import the text into my CAT. Charge more for source texts of this kind.
[/quote]
Hi Giles,
have you tried Unbreaker yet? It's actually very clever.
See: [url removed]
And for a short demo: [url removed] (animated GIF)