This is for translation management.
I've decided to follow H+M's help file advice to mark running changes with a Comment. However, after adding a comment about a change, I looked at the XML. It does not appear that the comment is protected from translation by the translate="false" attribute.
Question 1: what keeps Comments from being translated?
If they ARE lurking unprotected in the path of the translator,
Question 2: how do I make sure that Comments are indeed out of the translation line of fire? After adding the comment, go back, manually select the comment, and click on the padlock to protect it from change?
And a related padlock question:
Question 3: Why, after applying a padlock, can I not just select the shaded area, Right-click, and select Convert to plain text?
Running changes, "protect text," and Comment advice, please
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Re: Running changes, "protect text," and Comment advice, ple
Hi Dave,
Comments aren't "protectable" because they aren't formattable and the protected attribute is really a normal formatting function, like bold or italics. However, since they are clearly tagged you just need to tell your translators to ignore and/or filter them out.
Comments aren't "protectable" because they aren't formattable and the protected attribute is really a normal formatting function, like bold or italics. However, since they are clearly tagged you just need to tell your translators to ignore and/or filter them out.
Because the protected function is really just a formatting attribute, like bold or italics, and needs to be reversed in the same way.Why, after applying a padlock, can I not just select the shaded area, Right-click, and select Convert to plain text?
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Re: Running changes, "protect text," and Comment advice, ple
OK.
While this is a further question that I should ask the Trados Studio forum, do you know if Studio has a way to filter these out automatically?
While this is a further question that I should ask the Trados Studio forum, do you know if Studio has a way to filter these out automatically?
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Re: Running changes, "protect text," and Comment advice, ple
Sorry, as you guessed that's a question for the Trados people...Dave Gehman wrote:While this is a further question that I should ask the Trados Studio forum, do you know if Studio has a way to filter these out automatically?
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