Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How are you supposed to fix these kinds of CAT tool segment problems?
Poster: Miguel Carmona
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[quote]Jeff Whittaker wrote:
What if these are not the result of line segmenting errors but the words are on separate lines in the Source Document. Such as in a table, for example. Would you just merge the phrase in the CAT tool and then re-separate in the Clean document?
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Segments appearing on separate lines are not necessarily the result of segmenting errors. Sometimes DTP people use hard returns to separate lines that belong to the same paragraph for whatever reason, which of course causes problems for us CAT users.
The solution that you indicate is exactly what I do in those situations.
I would rather protect the integrity of the TM at translation time, by merging segments, and deal with issues in the target document at a later stage.
You usually have to give your target document some final touches anyway, layout and otherwise.
But, of course, it is always better to catch those problematic situations in the source document before setting up the project in Studio.
The "Edit Source" is for when you receive an XLIFF file from your client, or you already have set up your project and you do not want to go back to the source document to fix problems.
[Edited at 2015-07-08 20:42 GMT]
Topic: How are you supposed to fix these kinds of CAT tool segment problems?
Poster: Miguel Carmona
Post title: ...
[quote]Jeff Whittaker wrote:
What if these are not the result of line segmenting errors but the words are on separate lines in the Source Document. Such as in a table, for example. Would you just merge the phrase in the CAT tool and then re-separate in the Clean document?
[/quote]
Segments appearing on separate lines are not necessarily the result of segmenting errors. Sometimes DTP people use hard returns to separate lines that belong to the same paragraph for whatever reason, which of course causes problems for us CAT users.
The solution that you indicate is exactly what I do in those situations.
I would rather protect the integrity of the TM at translation time, by merging segments, and deal with issues in the target document at a later stage.
You usually have to give your target document some final touches anyway, layout and otherwise.
But, of course, it is always better to catch those problematic situations in the source document before setting up the project in Studio.
The "Edit Source" is for when you receive an XLIFF file from your client, or you already have set up your project and you do not want to go back to the source document to fix problems.
[Edited at 2015-07-08 20:42 GMT]