SDL Trados Studio 20II - SDL Trados Studio Manual
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3. Navigate between rows ing target segment text the process stops so you can edit if necessary About types of TM matches see p 133 Activate translate to fuzzy Press Ctrl Alt F Stop translate to fuzzy Press Esc More on this process can be found in Paul Filkin s SDL blog post Studio 2011 Series Translate to Fuzzy search the net for Translate to fuzzy When you confirm a translation and there is already a TU with the same source text but a different target text the new translation will overwrite the existing one If instead you want to add the current translation as a duplicate of the existing one press Ctr Shift U SDL Trados CtrizAlt Up SDLX Ctrl Shift U before you confirm the trans lation When you place the cursor in a row it automatically becomes active which is indicated by a light blue grey colour which like all colours may be changed see p 114 You can disable this implicit row activation Open Tools gt Options and select Editor In the Side by side Editor area you will see the option Enable implicit row activation If this function is disabled and you want to activate a row by clicking in it you can manually activate it with Translation gt Activate Row Navigation commands Go to functions Beginning of target segment Press Ctrl PageUp End of target segment Press CtrltPageDown Next row without conOfirmation of the current one Press DownArrow Previous row
4. Search entire TM Y Case sensitive F Perform Search v Use wildcards Test fen US ssv SE Test en US ssyv SE Test memory en US gt sv SE 4 Field Values v TE Color Channel Fargkanal Custom Fields Dell Icon Dell ikon Field Value I Dell Scan Driver Help Hj lp till Dells skannerdrivrutin Overview Oversikt 1 Basic Scanning tab 1 Fliken Basic Scanning Enkel skanning 1 1 Scan from 1 1 Skanna fran ww Projects 1 2 Image Type 1 2 Bildtyp 1 3 Scan Size 1 8 Skanningsstorlek MATS 36C59F5F92 Created on 2010 05 07 14 05 53 C m a a a dl cee y I Document structure 1 6 Reduce Enlarge 1 8 F rminska Farstora TE ees 1 6 Auto Exposure 1 6 Autoexponering Last modified on 4010 05 07 14 05 53 1 7 Preview window 1 7 F rhandsgranskningsf nster Last used by MYT S 36C59F5F 32 Last used on 200 05 07 14 05 53 2 Image Quality tab 2 Fliken Bildkvalitet Usage count o Vus EBDERI TM side by side editor Field Values pane Custom Fields in the Field Values pane are fields which are not standard system fields but have been added by a user System Fields are automatically generated e g creation and modifi cation dates p 212 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 235 Tramslation Units maintenance The Translation Memories view Open a TM Double click its name in the Navigation pane or with Alt Shift O but then of course you have to locate
5. without confirmation of the current target segment Press UpArrow Next unconfirmed target segment without confirmation of the current target segment CtrltDownArrow Previous unconfirmed target segment without confirmation of the current target segment Ctri UpArrow Specific row Open the Go To dialog with Ctrl4G The Go To command can be repeated with Ctrl SDLX Ctrl Shift G x Comment Use the Next and Previous buttons to move between the segments that have comments SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 123 29 Placeabies and tag handling Placeables tags formatting and special characters whitespace characters Placeables is what Trados calls content items which do not require translation numbers trademarks etc or which may be easily trans formed localized to the target segment according to specific rules e g dates and numbers They are indicated either by being colored or by a blue square bracket underline URL USE Tags for formatting structuring and placeholding are the most common placeables They are shown as colored fields Normally text formatting is inherited from the source segment by way of tags However you can also easily introduce formatting and special characters such as em and en dashes copyright symbols etc by way of the Quicklnsert toolbar see below Inserting placeables 146 There are several ways to insert placeables always at the place o
6. MANUAL 13 14 Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts are ergonomic and should be used as much as possible And at last Trados lets you can customize the shortcuts There are shortcuts for the following categories All Views shortcuts common to all views Category Window don t know what this is for Editor Editor QuickInsert Toolbar for formatting and some special charac ters see p 148 Editor TM Window for handling search results and TM matches Files file handling default state no shortcuts Projects Reports Translation Memories The shortcuts depend on which user profile p 52 you are using There are slight differences between the default and the SDL Trados profile shortcuts considerably more between the default and the SDLX shortcuts In this manual those differences are noted wherever they occur they are also reflected in the shortcut lists in the annexes View shortcuts There are two ways to do this n the tool bar click the Display all available shortcuts icon 7 A windows opens where you can scroll through all shortcuts and for each one the corresponding icon is shown You can also print this list Open Tools Options and expand Keyboard Shortcuts Change delete or create a shortcut Open the shortcut window Tools gt Options gt Keyboard Shortcuts and select the desired category Locate the action in question and change delete the existing key com bination o
7. it in the usual Open window You can have several TMs open but only one can be active If you have several TMs open you go between them by clicking the tabs on top of the editor pane If you have really many open you can use the w symbol in the top right hand corner a list of all the open TMs is shown Close a TM As usual click the x in top right hand corner of the edi tor pane If you have made any pending changes see p 237 you will be asked whether to commit them or discard them Remove a TM In the navigation pane right click the TM to be re moved and select Remove From List The side by side editor pane 236 TM name tabs Source language segments Target language segments r TU s Danskt samlingsminne 2 ds DK sw 5E daDK gt sv SE TestlenUs sv SE Test memory en U5 gt sw SE 3 dp wx Dell Scan Driver Help Hj lp till Dells skannerdrivrutin Overview versikt 1 1 Scan fram iem fr n p atus Document structure Custom field values A TM will normally take up several pages in the editor pane The number of TUs per page is set with Tools gt Options select Translation Memories view and then set the Number of translation units per page as necessary Some explanations TU status Edited Some change s has been made E To be deleted Invalid Some error e g one segment is empty was detected during verification when the cursor was moved to another TU Th
8. shortcut lists in Annexes A and B SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 121 segment handling Segment navigation and manipulation Copy source to target Press Ctrl Hnsert or AltHns Any text in the target segment will be overwritten Copy all sources to targets Press Alt Shifttinsert SDLX Shift F4 Only empty target segments are affected Note that you can elect to have this done every time you open a document for the first time Go to Tools Options Editor In the right hand pane there is this option Opening Files Automatically copy source content to target cells when opening document Confirm a translation ra Translate to fuzzy 122 o9 o This option should be used with care however For instance if you are translating a WorldServer p 266 document which contains al ready translated segments this option will overwrite those segments with the corresponding source content Clear the target segment Press Alt Del Clear all target segments Select all segments see below and press Alt Del Clear draft segments Press Alt Shift Del Toggle between source and target Press F6 Delete to end of row Press Ctrl D Delete to next tag Press Ctrl Shift D Lock segment Press Ctrl L A locked segment cannot be changed in any way The same command unlocks a locked segment A translated segment is confirmed when you finalize it with Ctrl Enter SDL Trados Alt num The tr
9. 2309 Catalog UA Lia H E Microsol l SDL Sample 2009 3 SOL Sample 2009 6 Definition About B Copyright c 2009 SDL plc BP ias Physical name C Documents and Settings Mats Linder Mina dokument SDL SDL E Input Models MultiTerm Samples Sample sdlitb J Import Physical size 3 19 MB Export g Exp Database owner Creation date den 18 juli 2011 Statistics Total number of entries 30 Total number of multimedia objects 6 Indexes Name Terms Entries Coverage of total English 52 30 10068 French 27 25 838 0 German 34 29 978 eeN Read only Expires on Currently logged in Locked entries In the Navigation pane you have a termbase navigation tree Under each branch termbase is a list of object types When you click an ob ject type the corresponding information is shown in the Work pane Opening termbases Press Ctrl 0 or select Termbase gt Open Termbase and browse in the Select Termbases dialog to the desired file or use the Servers and Login buttons When you re through makes sure that the bases you want to open are selected and press OK Note At the bottom of the dialog is a link to SDL OpenExchange where you can find termbases provided by other Trados users At the time of writing there are three El En He En De En Fr And one company provides Microsoft 2011 terminology collec tions for the European langugages
10. 288 ANNEX d ausi ivar ie E cus Ravaqs a a Or FRE TRAN EE KERA ES PUNTNE MGE PEMU EVER ME 209 Keyboard shortcuts Translation Memories eeesssssse 289 ANNEX e 290 Docurnenbstr ctille Codes aad n aset tnr dea eaa Su epa eta n de err sut 290 ANEX ete mE 291 SPeCial CharacterS COIN MER 291 jaro diee E 294 Segmentation differences between Studio and Trados 2007 SDLX 2007 294 INDE X drm M 295 VI SDL Trados Studio 201 THE MANUAL There are many ways to get help with the use of Studio SDL offers a large number of different help facilities to the free lance translator Go to Help gt SDL on the Web gt Translationzone Un der the heading Resources you will find under Downloads and Useful Links in particular a large number of very useful items Under Academic Portal look especially for SDL Blog http blog sdl com community blog which is a rich mine of useful texts you can also subscribe to this blog I would strongly urge you to famil larize yourself with these resources since they may provide many tips and help with Studio uses that you would not otherwise dis cover The SDL Knowledgebase go to Translationzone as described above and look under Support contains an enormous amount of infor mation solutions to problems FAQs etc Under the Support menu tab of translationzone com not the Sup port header in th
11. 8 Marking a project as complete enn 199 39 Review ANG Sign Of ioscins cetur eee EpETIS sees aeu oo Iv cde FeviEF erar edes n rco DRE ade 200 The review DIOCCSS ivostixdapatvetans ete tass 2 dede LO VERHA SD xv mU DE PIS D vUtR PEE VEMM OV TtA MEE VUBUE 200 Tracking changes in target segments as in Microsoft Wora 201 Making changes eter RENS 202 Reviewing tracked changes sessi 202 Niln i egnelferowccP m I a a aa a a aa 203 40 Bilingual Word files PDF TTX and Excel files in Studio 204 Handling bilingual Word files 204 FANUC PDF EE UT LT 205 Handing NP Si ERR 205 PrCase Ol Excel e Nanding eoi Reda enti etti bo beu coena Cent at bas bu niece 205 The SDLXLIFF to Legacy Conve rter ccccccccsssessssecssseessseessseeesseessseeesseeess 205 Converting SDLXLIFF files to import from Trados legacy formats 206 Converting SDLXLIFF files to TMX format eese 207 M PSCUGO TFANSIAOMN m aaa aaia 208 PART VI TRANSLATION MEMORIES 42 Handling Studio translation memories 212 Translation units descripuof 555 edi ob to E EI idee ab tema uetus 212 GE AUING He new Ame 213 Exporting importing a Studio TM cecccceseceseeeeseeesseesssseesseeessseeessseeesseeeesaees 215 uec Ac 216 Editing Ine TM deseHpliols aue poosevsr tva ara LOU o oua RE DU Co UU dea E P EE a UU 216 Crealing editing Cu
12. Eastern European languages plus English Western European languages plus Africaans English Arabic Hebrew Japanese Korean and 3 Chinese English and Dutch and separate ones for Greek German French 252 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL
13. I TERMBASES 47 MultiTerm and termbases 250 PART VIII AUTOMATED TRANSLATION 48 Automated translation basic information 264 PART IX REGULAR EXPRESSIONS 49 Regular expressions an introduction ANNEXES 273 INDEX 295 272 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Contents in detail PART INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL ADOULIBIS MANU dise sociae ctoo eu oai ru DU Eae Nade oun duae dUaU d a Ig Pec oo qusc UE 2 1 SDL Trados Studio a presentation s 3 Changes in the 2011 version including SP2 esee 4 019 6 tots 0 6 eeeerner ERR 5 Mi e 6 PART II BASICS 3 User interface overview eeeeeeeueee eee eene nennen nnn nnn nnn nnns 10 Tie ICING VEW cient uitis etu der a ee aeneo t d UR Mtt M iet 10 The maln Studio WIDOONW 5 t ie t bate re t th e et bie dein i 12 Customizing the VIEWS esse oes oases Shock acted she deh com sete ette etos e cim ciere 13 Rearranging the work panes enne nennen nnne nnns 13 AM erige isolnteijt 2e etes 14 5 Specific St dio COlICeDIS iss ieievau eie cep aed cuero euin coo ona cu tes EE 16 THE Project CONCCE m 16 The Project template concept nnn 17 The User profile CONCE1 c ccccssceccssssecsssseessseeesssseeesseeessseeesssneesssseesessnees 17 The Project package CODGC
14. Legacy Converter SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 205 lt Handling legacy old format TMs Migrating non Studio format TMs into Studio There are a number of non Studio format TMs and the way they can be migrated into Studio TM format and what can be migrated varies See also the Trados Studio Migration Guide p 6 for very detailed information The section designations refer to the subheadings on pp 224 233 Source program System Custom Segmen Language Tags See fields fields tation rules resources section and 2007 Trados 7 x 2006 TMX 1 4b Upgrade and 2007 Trados 7 x 2006 TMX 1 4b Import and 2007 Trados 7 x 2006 TXT Upgrade V J gt J and 2007 2006 and 2007 SDLX 2005 TMX 1 4b Import J J J C 2006 and 2007 Other programs TMX 1 46 Upgrade Possibly Pos or earlier sibl Other programs TMX 1 4b Import Possibly Pos or earlier sibl Trados Studio SDLXLIFF Import v bilingual Trados 2007 Txbim mot b b bho v a Trados2007 DObWg mot js Trados 2007 RTF tiling mpot SDLx2007 ITD biling impon ae we ek fTrados 2006 i impon o SDLX 2007 Import SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 223 Handling legacy TMs Importing files into an existing Studio TM These settings include segmentation rules abbreviations list ordinal followers list and variable list see p 217 and footnotes below If you migrate the Trados 2007 segmen
15. Mbase cccccccccccseecceceeseceeeeeeeeeseeeeeesseeeeesaaes 43 PUTO SUGGS ST icing tet ud ceuelne atin toes lived ttu Maar Duc ee enews 44 enia 44 Q ality COMO sacri ova a ven eR Toten Pa edu v e PU Duo EM vu ou 45 12 The preview DIOGCGSS dui iu ciae o dua dun eus to saco ve eo pe sono oo taper o pion SE dus saxis cuas 46 Previewing as you translate cccccsssseccesssseesssseseesssseseesssenseesssseseesssensensssneess 46 Previewing in the original file fOrMal ccscccccsssceccsssseeeessseeeesssnseeesssneeeessneess 46 The Preview toolbar ccno a a 47 Printing Rig do sad Weereens a 47 Tracking changes as in Microsoft Word cccscccsssessseesseessseessseeessneessseeesaes 47 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL SDL Trados Studio a presentation 13 Saving documents generating translated documents 48 PART IV GENERAL FUNCTIONS iL Mic uuiel e 52 19 Language Pairs nicsen 53 16 Language resource templates eese 55 UD OIC CUS tne 57 creating a Dro OC EE m m m TM 57 FIODSEAIOLIS oiu sated vit aah isl OMM t lteter oU occ Men EUR Unt apu eO a tle 57 sEtjeNefel eMericu M DRE 58 POCELE iaeio T Sate a aac eee eae seen oa 60 UB managemen ea ees earache chk a ch cls abet ee cht cabal ica aN 62 T rmpase hanalifig susosteicc ditas cse utis OR andi cael Clu dun duod
16. ODE suus voca oria oni uE cri ro rto FER da RR Ex rnori nra 18 PART Ill QUICK GUIDE BASIC USO Sirasini EER 22 T oralio ett c 23 One source file only no initial creation of a project sese 23 Several source files with project CreAtiOn cscccsscccsssessseessseeesseesseeeesseeeesnees 23 8 Creating a elgel ie TE TET ODE ETE 24 Project without Centralised resources cc ccccsssecsssecesseeesssseeesseeeessneesssteeesees 24 Project with centralised resources via SDL WorldServer 27 9 Translation memory handling eese 28 Greatingia WW RT 28 Importing a legacy old format TM into an existing Studio TM 29 Upgrading an legacy old format TM to Studio format 32 10 Translating a single file which is not part of an existing project 33 LEE Crulmec ES 35 Opening a previously Saved file or files ssesessessssssssss 35 EGUNO EHE P rc PE 36 TAGE CUOF DANG c T a a Oe saehutianet 37 Segment NANGIING tet m 37 Segment status filtering uio iota veia Maar iva ree Maa leedetndett ocean putt Rcup busque 40 PING zio e mataams 41 Placeables tags formatting and special characters whitespace characters 42 Lookup TM Concordance ter
17. SDL Trados Studio A pa e L ay Sea e pin New Project Open Package HE MANUA For self study and easy reference Mats Dannewitz Linder SDL Trados Studio 2011 IHE MANUAL For self study and easy reference Mats Dannewitz Linder Copyright O 2012 Mats Dannewitz Linder All rights reserved Contents at a glance PART I INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL About this manual 2 1 SDL Trados Studio a presentation 3 2 Help 6 PART II BASICS 3 User interface overview 10 4 Keyboard shortcuts 14 5 Specific Studio concepts 16 PART Ill QUICK GUIDE 6 Basicuse 22 7 Workflow 23 8 Creating a project 24 9 Translation memory handling 28 10 Translating a single file which is not part of an existing project 33 11 Translating 35 12 The p review process 46 13 Saving documents generating translated documents 48 PART IV GENERAL FUNCTIONS 14 User Profile 52 15 Language pairs 53 16 Language resource templates 55 17 Projects 57 18 Project templates 77 19 Levels for settings document project project template 80 20 Project packages 82 21 File types file type handling 85 22 Batch Processes 89 23 Project and file statistics reports 96 PART V EDITING TRANSLATING 24 Starting the editing translation process 106 25 The Editor view 110 26 Segment handling 121 27 Using TMs 128 28 Using termbases 141 29 Placeables and tag handling 146 30 Automatic substitution localization of spe
18. acters instead of paragraphs soft hyphens etc Preferably compare the result to the PDF s p It is of course also possible to open a PDF file in Studio export the result to a source or target file and edit it 3 Translate as usual Handling TTX files Handling of TTX files in Studio normally is no problem and the translated files can be exported into a TTX format which looks exact ly like a TTX translation generated by the old Trados There is a particular setting which concerns compatibility with re gard to tags you can either use the smart tag pairing mode or the compatibility mode By default the former is selected in Tools gt Options gt File Types gt TRADOStag gt Compatibility This topic is covered in detail in a chapter called TTX Compatibility with SDL Trados Studio in the Migration Guide see p 6 A brief explanation is given in the corresponding Help section A case of Excel file handling Sometimes you get the task of translating a text column in Excel and placing the translation in another column Usually you can accomplish this without big problems by for instance copying pasting translat ing copying and pasting again but Paul Filkin describes a more ele gant method in his multifarious blog A couple of little known gems in SDL Trados Studio The SDLXLIFF to Legacy Converter Studio user Patrick Hartnett has given us a brilliant OpenExchange application the SDLXLIFF to
19. ag penalty Note 2 The Auto Propagation function can sometimes be tricky and may give unwanted results with numbers Discussions in TW Users see p 6 indicate that some experimenting with the set tings may be required to get satisfactory results SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Bilingual Word files PDF TTX and Excel files in Studio There are some file types which are more common than others and the handling of which in Studio is not completely straight forward I will take a look at PDF and TTX files and most particularly the handling of bilingual Word files it seems to be quite common that clients want to receive an uncleaned Word file of the same format as the old Trados used to deliver Handling bilingual Word files 204 Users of old Trados and also Wordfast D j Vu and some other CAT tools will recognize the bilingual Word file format which is the result directly or indirectly of translation in those tools Such a document typically looks like this har kontrollerats av VeriSign Authentication Services som bevis p str ng autentisering T I e source segments here blue and target segments green separat ed and enclosed by Trados tags violet The 2009 version of Studio could neither handle nor produce such documents to the chagrin of many users whose clients demanded re sults delivered in that format Workaround processes were soon de veloped but thos
20. aking such tags to be grouped to gether as a single item in the QuickPlace drop down list press Ctrl comma and the corresponding QuickPlace dialog They can thus be inserted all at once Special characters 148 The Quicklnsert toolbar makes it easy to insert e g specific quotation marks line breaks and other characters which otherwise may not be easily accessible The contents of this toolbar to some extent depends on the source file type Examples SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Automatic substitution localization of specific expressions You can set up Studio to recognize certain types of expressions and treat them as tokens a new Studio term This means that during translation a if the source segment is identical to a TU except for tokens Studio will insert the corresponding target segment as a 100 match with the target versions of the tokens inserted or b if no hit in the TM is found for the source segment you will still be able to insert the token in the simplified way using Quick Insert see p 148 The types of expressions are Acronyms URLs Variables Inline tags Dates Times Numbers in numerals Measurements The first four of these tokens are handled as placeables p 146 which means that the suggested target is the same as the source The last four of these tokens can be automatically localized accord ing to the settings for the target language If you w
21. anslation unit is then entered into the TM and the next unconfirmed segment is activated The confirmed status is indicated in the status column by the fe symbol If you go to next row by simply pressing the down arrow key the translation will remain unconfirmed and nothing will be entered into the TM Sometimes you need to confirm the translation and just go to the next segment If so press Ctrl Alt Enter You unconfirm a translation by right clicking in the row selecting Change Segment Status and then selecting the appropriate status Note however that the corresponding TU in the TM does not change even if you apply the status Not translated You can deactivate the TM update upon manual confirmation Go to Tools gt Options select Editor and its Automation option de select Update translation memory under After Confirming Segments Manually You can make a note to yourself that a particular translation needs to be checked by leaving the segment with Draft status Translate to fuzzy is a function well known to users of the old Trados It means that the program steps through each target segment including confirmed ones except PerfectMatches inserting every 100 match until it comes to a non 100 match a fuzzy match which may of course be 0 If the TM hit is different from an exist SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL segment handling Segment navigation and manipulation Add as duplicate
22. ant automatic localization to take place during pre translation or when applying matches from a TM the Auto Substitution function must also be enabled which it is by default This is how you disable it De pending on whether to do this in the default settings the current project or a specific project template see p 80 select in the re spective dialog the TM in question then select Auto Substitution and deselect the appropriate options 154 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Automatic substitution localization of specific expressions Auto substitutian i G vf Enable or disable automatic substitution for the following placeables M Iv Dates v Times Iv Numbers v Measurements V Variables De activate a recognition substitution by default they are all activated normally there is no reason to deactivate them but it may happen that e g number expressions do not follow the rules set out by Microsoft in their National Language Support NLS API Reference and then numerous of false QA errors may be reported if these settings are active Select the Translation Memory view right click the TM in question it does not have to be open and se lect Settings then select Fields and Settings Fields Remove Settings Iv Recognize dates Iv Recognize acronyms Iv Recognize times Iv Recognize variables v Recognize numbers Iv Recognize measurements Substitution More on the substitution of numbers acronym
23. ated documents to produce a new TM 233 Creating a TM from a termbaSe ccccccscccsssecssseesseecsseesesseessseessseeesseesssseeeaes 234 44 Translation Units maintenance sess 235 The Translation Memories view eeeseseeseeeeeeeeeeeeen nnn 235 The side by side editor palle eem Avec E Seed piste co doe ete ees 236 Customizing the Translation Memories view eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 237 Eding indmvaual TUS ssis 237 Deleting several TUs at the same time batch delete 238 Editing several TUs at the same time batch edit 239 oedichirig TOF dUbplIeales c mvicoe pu od celat vod vetere ET vo edet e esa Neve desees eva 241 miuus PH 242 45 Reversing languages in a TM eese 244 46 Using server based TMSs essere eee eere nnmnnn nnne 245 Managing Ez s Rs ETE TTE T E 10 00 0T TOTEM 245 Adding a server connection cccssscecsssseessseeesssseecseseeessseeesssseeesssnsessseenesaes 245 Adding a server based IM cc ccccsssccssssecsssseessseeesssseeeesseeesssseeesseneesssseeessass 246 PART VII TERMBASES 47 MultiTerm and termbases 1 1eceeeeeeeeeeieeriee nennen n ann nana 250 The MultiTerm windOW
24. ber of characters you should experiment But you probably do not want a large number of suggestions which might happen even if the suggestions are based on the source context nor will you want very short expressions to be suggested Hide suggestions which have already been used means used before in the current segment i e the word phrase already exists in the current target segment Case sensitive if you uncheck this AutoSuggest will not only find results regardless of case it will also adapt the hits accordingly i e if the term you start to type starts with a lower case letter then the hits will do the same regardless of whether they are listed like that in the sources Whether or not to use termbases depends very much on the relevance of the terms in the bases There is a risk that you will be presented with numerous suggestions for which you have no use but with cus tomer specific termbases AutoSuggest may offer great advantages Sortorder is self explanatory The order of sources for the suggestions presented may be changed by moving each source up down buttons Move Up Move Down under AutoSuggest Providers Defaults button Reset to Defaults does not affect the settings of AutoSuggest providers Generating adding an AutoSuggest dictionary Generate a dictionary This function is not by default included in the Freelance edition but it may be bought as an add on You can base the dictiona
25. cific expressions 154 31 AutoSuggest 158 32 Auto Propagation 167 33 Spell checking 169 34 Comments 173 35 Changes in source documents 176 36 Verification 179 37 Preview 190 SDL Trados Studio a presentation SDLX Trados MultiTerm SDL PerfectMatch Language Weaver GroupShare and TranslationZone are registered trademarks of SDL plc Translators Workbench Trados Studio TagEditor QuickPlace and AutoSuggest are registered trade marks of SDL plc Word Power Point WordPad and Excel are trademarks of Microsoft Corpora tion FrameMaker InDesign and PageMaker are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc QuickSilver is a trademark of BroadVision Inc QuarkXPress is a trademark of Quark Inc StarOffice is a trademark of Sun Microsystmes Inc All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respec tive companies All images Copyright 2012 SDL plc All rights reserved All company product or service names referenced herein are properties of their respec tive owners 38 Saving documents and updating TMs generating translated documents 197 39 Review and sign off 200 40 Bilingual Word files PDF TTX and Excel files in Studio 204 41 Pseudo translation 208 PART VI TRANSLATION MEMORIES 42 Handling Studio translation memories 212 43 Handling legacy old format TMs 223 44 Translation Units maintenance 235 45 Reversing languages ina TM 244 46 Using server based TMs 245 PART VI
26. d of them by de selecting the Recognize numbers and or Recognize measurements options in the Fields and Settings dialogue click the Project Settings tab above the Translation Results pane select the TM in question click the Settings tab above the TM list select Fields and Settings in the new dialog and make the desired changes Can t promise it works though it seems a bit erratic Note 1 There are numerous shortcuts for the Quick Insert QuickPlace options see Annex C or simply point to the toolbar buttons Note 2 You close the list dialog without insertion of an entry with Right LeftArrow Note 3 As for Studio s ability to correctly recognise numbers etc it is based on conventions for each sub language based on their representations as defined by Microsoft in their National Language Support NLS API Reference Hence the source text must follow these conventions or Studio will not be able to perform recognition correctly Mouse Click in the place of insertion and then click the placeable in the source segment while pressing Ctrl Or right click in the place of insertion and select QuickPlace to open the QuickPlace dia log with the same options as the list mentioned above x RightwardsArrow 2192 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 147 Placeables and tag handling Tags formatting and special characters Or click the QuickInsert list button which opens the Insert Tag dialog looking for example like
27. e are no longer needed You can import a bilingual Word document also complex ones with footnotes and other sub segments such as index entries directly into Studio work on it and export it with Shift F12 SDLX Ctrl Shift F12 or File gt Save Target As to the same bilingual format As for delivering normal transla tions i e where the source document is not a bilingual file see The SDLXLIFF to Legacy Converter below Paul Filkin gives us a general discussion of the handling of bilingual Word documents in his SDL blog entry Studio 2011 Series The Return of the Bilingual Word File Type SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Bilingual Word files PDF and TTX files Handling TTX files Handling PDF files While SDL Trados claims that Studio is able to handle PDF files most users agree that the result is far from satisfying Often the text is clut tered with so many tags that it is impossible to work with So the basic rule still stands If at all possible do not base the job on PDF files but demand the files in the format on which the PDF con version was based If you cannot obtain anything but the PDF versions the normal pro cedure as with any CAT tool applies 1 Convert the PDF file s to a suitable office document format e g Word There are numerous tools for this check with colleagues and the net 2 Pre edit the result Be particularly careful with misplaced para graph characters new line char
28. e handling 85 Supported TIS YDES 5 cei tonta den idi ere Ra eo oid pieta iu t essei ip btts nies 85 FG ype SEUNS EET DD 87 22 Batch PIOCCSSCS ornan a A a Ea 89 Batch tasks and task sequences included in Studio 89 For processing files and preparing projects seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 89 For Preparing projects OMY sidus esce see cuss ru utu verlieren e udo ux puede Vo Fake uda enun coUe 92 Running a batch task or task sequence on files sessssssss 93 23 Project and file statistics reports esses 96 FICDONE MANGIING MER E 97 Project and file analysis for fuzzy statistics etc ssessssssssss 99 Word count no fuzzy matches statistics 101 Current status no fuzzy matches statistics eeseesessssssss 102 Pretranslati n rzio o eR D 103 PART V EDITING TRANSLATING 24 Starting the editing translation process 106 Settings for the opening of a COCUMEN cccscccssseessecsseessneesseeeesseeesseeeeaes 106 Opening a new document for translation essseeesseeeeeessees 106 Opening several new documents for translation sssss 108 Continuing wo
29. e middle of the page you will find both Tips and Tricks and a large number of Video Tutorials and FAOs There are also a number of video sequences at youtube com sdltrados as well as in the Help itself under the heading SDL Trados Studio Video Help Series Documentation The SDL Trados Studio Migration Guide is an in troduction to Studio for those who are familiar with the old Trados as well as others and does a quite good job of it There are also three Quick Start Guides Translating and Reviewing Translation Memory Management and Project Management All four are accessible via Start gt SDL gt SDL Trados Studio 2011 gt Documentation the latter three also via the Help The OpenExchange page Start gt SDL gt SDL Trados Studio 2011 gt SDL OpenExchange or go to http www translationzone com en open exchange where users can offer their own enhancement applica tions and of course download them Very useful And the SDL Blog mentioned above has a topic specifically geared to comment ing on and explaining some of these applications The main user driven help facility is the unofficial Trados user group TW users search for that term where more than 5000 us ers discuss everything to do with Trados not only Studio and of fer very swift help on all sorts of problems Various sites and blogs run by translators Here are a few SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Help multifarious multifariou
30. e status is also reflected in the background colors of the TU White or gray No pending changes Yellow Pending changes Pink Marked for deletion Blue Currently selected SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL MultiTerm and termbases The use of MultiTerm is integrated in the use of Studio where you can search for edit and create termbase entries For more radical termbase management such as advanced searches and the creation of new termbases you have to start and use MultiTerm itself Here I will just cover the basic uses for the rest I refer to the quite extensive Help function and SDL Trados own resources at www translation zone com en translator products sdlmultitermdesktop The MultiTerm window The Terms view This is a typical MultiTerm window with the Terms view activated Navigation pane Entry pane Menus and toolbars X SDL MultiTerm Microsoft P Dl x Termbase Edt Search Mavigation View Tools Help D d D A a Pi j D kel v No input model pi AV BY 92 i English v Swedish Flads layout v 100 R i gly 5 amp Gb Y No filter Y Terms T TT Entry number 5032 0EM AT Enalish ZSYSTEMROOTZ AIN ng 4WINDIR SOEMS adml Swedish SOEMS admx cab file Browse Hitlist Termbases In the Terms view you work with terms and termbase entries In the corresponding Navigation
31. een active for a while though Popular Help Topics ig Introducing SDL Trados Studio Quick Start Guides gi Creating and Managing Projects amp i Translating in SDL Trados Studio gi Upgrading your Translation Memories This list can also be found at the SDL Trados Studio Manual site ael Samples where it is continually updated g Open Sample Project Studio help Last but not least note that in every dialog you can use F1 or the Help button to the right or to the left at the bottom of the dia log to arrive at the help page rele vant to that dialog If instead you arrive at the very first Help page try Access local help files see be low Very useful since the Help function even if the Help naviga tion pane in the Home view shown at right is helpful with Popular Help Topics and also SDL Trado Studio News as usual will very quickly SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL SDL Trados Studio News SDL Trados Studio 2011 Service Pack 2 5P2 is now available Translators Connect to the Cloud SDL Trados Studio 2011 Service Pack 1 5P1 is now available Google Translate API v2 now supported SDL Trados Studio 2011 is here SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP3 is now available to download from your SDL Account Important KB Article Term recognition not working after running Workbench SDL Trados Studio 2009 Service Pack 2 5P2 is now available ij User interface overview The main St
32. eft of the suggestion in dicates its source The more characters you type the more specific the suggestions will be Iri H installing Make your selection with the Up DownArrow and press Enter If you want to close the list without using any of the suggestions press Right LeftArrow Or just go on typing ignoring the list An AutoSuggest dictionary contains words and phrases extracted from a TM You will find a detailed discussion of the uses of AutoText and Auto Suggest in Paul Filkin s SDL blog post Studio 2011 Series Using Au to text and AutoSuggest search the Help for Using Auto text and Auto Suggest Setting up AutoSuggest Enable AutoSuggest and select providers of AutoSuggest entries Open Tools Options and select AutoSuggest in the navigation pane 158 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL AutoSuggest Setting up AutoSuggest Auto Suggest I Enable Auto Suggest Show the suggestions window when there are 20 or fewer suggestions Show suggestions which have or more characters v Hide suggestions which have already been used IW Case sensitive Sort Order Sort by shortest suggestions first Sort by longest suggestions first Sort suggestions alphabetically Auto Suggest providers only selected providers are used W Tembases Move Up M Auto Suggest Dictionaries W Auto Text Move Down For the settings of the number of suggestions to show and their num
33. f the cursor in the target segment Keyboard Press Ctrl comma or Ctl Alt DownArrow A OuickPlace list of the candidates in the source segment opens LL Note that for every option that you go to with DownArrow the affected text in the source segment will be highlighted Select the required option and insert it by pressing Return SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Placeables and tag handling Tags formatting and special characters c By pressing Ctrl Alt RightArrow LeftArrow you step between the placeables but not the numbers in the source segment forwards or backwards each placeable is highlighted in turn When you let up the keys the selected placeable is inserted in the target segment but it is still highlighted so you need to press RightArrow before you start typing again or it will be replaced by the next character For some reason the RightArrow always starts with the first place able and the LeftArrow always with the last regardless of which one was the last inserted Irritating but there you are You can apply a particular formatting tag pair from the source segment to a word or words in the target segment by selecting those words and then use one of the above methods See also about Ghost tags p 152 If you don t like long lists of numbers as sometimes happens see the figure above which are useful only when the numbers are re ally big you should be able to get ri
34. ing translation 180 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL ili SDL Trados Studio a presentation Verifying a project normally after translation ccccceeeesseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 181 OA CReoer SE TIIGS 5 costura siena Ere suia On tp St delapsa rre EE 182 Terminology Verifier eeseeeeesee cesses eene 187 ha VENICANOM UNTERE E T T 188 AME leri TN 188 SYM OVI OW MEET EI sidadienatanadsaawecudsnctetesausterteln 190 Previewing as you translate c ccccessssecsssssseesesseseesesseseesesseseeseseeeeesesseseesessees 190 Previewing in original file format ccsccccesssseessssseeeeesseeeeesseeesesseeeeesseeeeesnes 191 The Preview too Da ennan ta Cohen oreet ta ale eons ka Reuds 191 misigulsrelarzqer i n iataninanareneainddsiahdewtintds 191 Printo the preview via StudiO sisis ee oe edt eee oC ee 191 Printing the preview as a Word document eseeeeeeeenreeeee 192 Comparing SDLXA LFF MES cocictut aei taces S a decebat ode abt 196 38 Saving documents and updating TMs generating translated documents eese 197 Saving the bilingual and source documents esses 197 Updating ihe cm a 197 Generating a translated document essen 198 Finalizing the translation puer ERI RR NR 198 zyiosnlqeMi Mome m emm 19
35. io Rs 65 miiel eWed erirzien cT ETT 66 FASK NISO ninman UAM et ves vd ecl De ao nun OR GM eue ocH vaca car EET VOR OM eue Pow a vC V RR 72 Managing de ro sei Pr 72 FPLOLECE SCUING Satiivetin T M 72 TING FOIE CIS VIEW ea deter nner yiutdada de Ud bus sy TUVO dede up Oed v eta det tiatec Reactors tide Qu ade 73 Changing projects list Settings sioe pute tu oiea a a 75 Changing file type setllnigsS aires epe tb en ui tutt bor Gates acea evce tas Desi cud uer Dutton n de 75 Add remove files Or TOlders is o o a Sede iae Pad laua Ep 75 Ado remove TMS asses botes uode E anes aad ase liete cs a ee deel 76 Add remove TEMMDASES 2 aaicee pura e eto anui a Mabel hed 76 Add new target langages aceto ete Rer oce oma cete Daet im n Redoute odds 76 PG PFOJect templates 2 iie ed et o Ee S 77 Managing project templates ccccsssseccsssssecesssseeesssseseessseeeesssseeesessnsenessnsess 71 Managing language pairs 5 2 5 x px EEutR tena cre MES e dena atv eva EN E C RE te dE ETE a eS ERA 79 General settings of TMS and termbases ccsecccceeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseaeeeeeeeeaaaees 79 19 Levels for settings document project project template 80 20 ideli reluler lel Cie Re nectar ete teat aeae ade abet a eE 82 Opening a project HackKaJE marrin 82 Opening files in a project packagers i i 83 Returning a project Dackage doeet t iie oce lir ec dee hee 83 21 File types file typ
36. lar expressions an introduction 272 ANNEXES ANNER A arose nn HEUDX A E T 274 Keyboard shortcuts All views cccccsccessseesssseeessseeeseseeessssseesseeessseeeeseeeens 274 ANNEX B usns eut EI Ii UII ELLE DERE FETEEE OK ARLDOPI KO MEEL FI SEU EUL TENIS 275 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL SDL Trados Studio a presentation Keyboard shortcuts Editor ccccccsssecessecessseeesseeeeeseeesssaeeessseeesssaeeseseeeens 2 5 ANNEX ee D 278 Keyboard shortcuts Editor gt QuicklInsert Toolbar 278 ia 279 Keyboard shortcuts Editor gt TM and Concordance Window 279 Annex B o oon LL IEEE E 200 Keyboard shortcuts Editor gt Track Changes ssssss 280 hid crease acacia atin oanetensce de ctuaaeceaueveuawesee Danae wuueuseeeeeteutaweensoeragetcoes 281 Keyboard shortcuts Shortcuts used in Editor and All views 281 ANNEN Corm M MR 286 Keyboard shortcuts Files ccscceccssseesssscecssseeesssssesssseeeesessessseeeesseneessseeenens 286 ANNEX PT inna iaienitissivendss tst notus tux a 207 Keyboard shortcuts Projects esses nennen 287 iu24 eR 288 Keyboard shortcuts Reports 5 eee oett es s enit eo c teet Dens elec
37. med segments If you make a change to a target segment with matching source text elsewhere in the document the change will be propagated also to SDL Trados Studio 201 THE MANUAL 167 Auto Propagation those segments which are already translated and confirmed In my experience this is a very useful option Confirm segment after auto propagating an exact match will probably save time If you have set the matching requirement see above to less than 100 any such propagated lesser matches will not be confirmed The whole document or only below the current segment Select as Starting Position either First segment or Next segment in document Obviously you cannot propagate upwards only Prompt for confirmation Select whether you want to be warned for every segment to which the translation or change is propagated Always or not at all Never or conditionally when the matching segment has been translated differently and or the matching segment has no translation and or the matching segment is confirmed The lat ter option is of course available only when auto propagation to confirmed segments has been selected The warning looks like this 4uto propagate Confirmed Translation X Match 1 2 Apply the translation to segment 227 Evenemangs Detail 2 es to All Ma Cancel Help p PA 168 Note 1 Auto propagated segments with tags missing from the tar get segments will get a missing t
38. nd Translation Memories tell us exactly what they are for The menus toolbars and work panes are context sensitive and depend on which view is open All in all this is to my mind a successful way of accommodating the control of the very large number of features that are included in Stu dio You can switch between all panes and open documents with Ctrl Tab and Ctrl Shift Tab the difference is the direction in which you go See p 111 12 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL User interface overview Rearranging the work panes Customizing the views As well as rearranging the work panes see below you can make changes to the look of the user interface window Toolbars can be dragged and dropped both within the window and outside of it Toolbars outside of the window will disappear when you change the view and reappear when you return to it Navigation panes including the view buttons can be minimized by clicking the double arrow in the top right corner and maximized again by clicking the corresponding double arrow Color scheme With View gt Color Scheme you can switch between Office 2007 Blue default Office 2007 Black and Office 2007 Silver And don t forget that you can select what toolbars to show by select ing View gt Toolbars Rearranging the work panes If the pane has a pin symbol next to the X in the top right hand cor ner you can move it freely to other places on the screen or
39. pane there are three tabs Browse with the terms from the selected database shown in alpha betical order 250 SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Multi erm and termbases The MultiTerm window ACCOE file Accelerated Cost Recovery Syste accelerated graphics port accelerator accelerator board accelerator card accelerator editar Accent Process Hitlist where you work with the termbase search results Microsoft accelerator accelerator board accelerator card accelerator editor Termbases where you select in the list of open termbases which termbase the default termbase to view in the Browse pane click that termbase and exclude termbases from searches There are al so other actions to perform right click a termbase name and they all become available Termmbases 3 Microsoft i SOL Sample 2009 There are also other actions to perform right click a termbase name and they all become available Set as Default Termbase Disable for Searching Clase Termbase Ctrl Alt B Delete Termbase Open Termbase Ctri Q Create Termbase Ctrl Alt T SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 251 Multi erm and termbases The Multi Term window The Catalog view This is a typical Catalog view Navigation pane Work pane Menus and toolbars SDL MultiTerin SDL Sample 2009 Oj x Termbase Catalpg View Tools Help q English 7 gt French 5 9 00 7O O E 0 3 6 2
40. r add a new one If you try to assign a shortcut which is al ready in use the row will be highlighted in red and you will have to try another one It is alright to use the same shortcut in different cat egories except for conflicts with All Views or conflicts between the three Editor tables Reset shortcuts Click the Resetto Defaults button This applies only to the category that is open SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Segment handling Segment navigation and manipulation You can quickly get access to many commands for segment handling by right clicking in the segment This gives you the following options note also the shortcuts ta Baal Bo io niu Sr a LE Y Paste Ctrl 5kift Ins QuickPlace Ctrl Alt Down Activate Row Alt Home Confirm and Move to Next Unconfirmed Segment Ctrl Retur Change Segment Status Concordance Search F3 Copy Source to Target Ctrl Ins Clear Target segment Alt Del Pectore ans j kl ese Torm ee EEE ETLi T Add Comment Ctrl Skift N a eer ff mmrmant The basic editing functions familiar from Word and other office pro grams have the same shortcuts here e g cut copy paste cursor movement selection deletion of a word change case all minor case capitalisation of first character all capitals for this function you can also use Format gt Change case select text until end of paragraph segment etc See also the Edit menu and the
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42. rt wizard opens with the Import Files page O Depending on whether you are going to import a file or a folder with several TM files click the Add Files or Add Folder button Select the file s to import The Import Bilingual Document Import Options page Opens SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL Handling legacy TMs Importing files into an existing Studio TM Bilingual Document Import Options Specify import options for the bilingual documents you have selected Only import segments with the following confirmation level Draft v Translated Translation rejected v Translation approved D Sign off Rejected v Signed off Help Back Next gt Finish Cancel Select confirmation i e status levels for the TUs to be imported Draft corresponds to Fuzzy Match or Machine Translated in TTX Translated corresponds to 100 Match or Manually translated in TTX and Confirmed in ITD Translation Approved corresponds to Context Match and PerfectMatch in TTX and Unconfirmed in ITD Click Next The General Import Options page opens General Import Options Specify general import options and click Finish to start importing Apply Field Values L Import translation units as plain text Exclude language variants Overwrite existing translation units Export invalid translation unite Export Location Browse Help Back M est Finish Cancel O Apply Field Values permi
43. ry on a Studio SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 159 Auto Propagation 32 Auto Propagation means that the translation of a segment is copied to all other target segments with identical source content in the same document It takes place when you confirm the translation Settings Select Tools gt Options Select Editor in the navigation tree and select Auto Propagation Make settings as follows the figure shows the de fault settings General v Enable Auto propagation Minimum match value 100 I Auto propagate exact matches to confirmed segments Confirm segment after auto propagating an exact match Starting Position Auto propagate from When auto propagating a segment the user will be prompted C Always Conditionally when Matching segment has been translated differently E Matching segment has no translation E Matching segment is confirmed C Never always auto propagate translations without prompting user Note The options Auto propagate exact matches to confirmed segments and Conditionally when are selected here for the sake of visibility they are not active by default Explanations Enable disable Under General Select unselect the check box Enable Auto Propagation Matching requirement Under General Select a 100 minimum match value or lower hardly advisable Note that you do not have the choice of context match i e 101 Auto propagate exact matches to confir
44. s and variables of numbers Numbers are automatically localized according to the settings for acronyms and the target language Note that in particular the word in can variables cause problems if preceded by a number it may be interpreted as in i e inches There is probably a way of avoiding this even if I haven t yet figured out how Acronyms are identified as consisting of an uppercase letter fol lowed by 0 4 more uppercase letters or by the amp character and by a single uppercase letter e g A amp B Variables are set by yourself for a specific TM Select the Transla tion Memory view right click the TM in question and select Settings then Language Resources Select at right Variable list and click Edit Add variables as necessary in the dialog that opens Go to the end of the list double click and type the new variable If you need to edit an entry double click it Depending on the type of document you are translating this is potentially a quite power ful function Punctuation within variables is not allowed SDL Trados Studio 201 THE MANUAL 155 AutoSuggest AutoSuggest is a new function whereby Studio by detecting the first few characters that you type makes suggestions based on expressions in the selected termbases and in specific AutoSuggest dictionaries and on expressions that you have entered into an AutoText list for the tar get language in question The symbol to the l
45. s filkin com Paul Filkin s expert blog on various Studio issues Invaluable for everyone who is using Studio in any but the most basic ways Regularly updated Between Translations foxdocs biz Jayne Fox is an extremely knowledgeable Studio user and translator who willingly shares her experiences of translation and translation tools My Migration to Trados Studio 2009 tradoshelp wordpress com Tuomas Kostiainen s very informative blog SDL Trados Studio Troubleshooting unofficial studio troubleshooting blogspot se S bastien Desautel s sparsely oc curring but very knowledgeable help on specific issues Claudia s Translation Blog www hispaniclanguages com blog tag trados Practical advice and tips from Claudia Alvis 21 Century Translations english german translation blogspot se Gabriel Brunner on all things translation online marketing technology and some personal stuff very much about SDL Trados Thoughts On Translation thoughtsontranslation com Corinne McKay s interesting and personal blog about her life as a freelance translator with among other useful things long lists of site references ABC Technical Translation www abc tech se cat 10 Sup port amp tips from Katarina Bovin In Swedish Salt Hat Translation Notes salthatten blogspot com Salthatten s experiences of translating with CAT tools haven t b
46. screens drag it by its title bar However if you simply drag it you will also drag the all the panes that are indicated by the tabs below the one you are dragging If you want to drag only the pane that is open you have to first select the Floating alternative from the w menu Possible actions v Opens a menu with options Close Floating Auto Hide Auto Hide same as the menu alternative The pane including sub panes is hidden and is replaced by tabs above the pane It is shown when you point to the tab You stop Auto Hide by clicking again X Close Open again from the View menu Note The symbols have other meanings Pin and Unpin in a floating pane However I have not been able discover the differ ence between pinned and unpinned a pinned window can be moved in the same way as an unpinned one The symbols that you see on the right when you drag a pane work like this when you drag the pane so that the FSF cursor points to such a symbol and you release of the mouse button the pane jumps to the position indicated by the symbol Restore a floating pane to its original position Double click its title bar or right click its title bar and de select Floating Restore all panes to their original positions Press View Reset Window Layout Note The rearrangement that you have done is retained in the us er profile see p 52 that is active at the time SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE
47. stom FIeldscaee cote acte tins e He E eee wea aes 217 Language Resource SCTINGS uoc iaces Eee ioo ac ve a uacua Dv Ex runt 217 oegmenhntauob T lGs ceste gebeten ade bete habc tote aah haere 218 Vanale issues tdeo oso unt hea het tute DE bo LOU M aa 220 Yee cM MEE 221 edel srcibiellev rice etter eer te ee et ere eet ert ote een a 221 gf gad AA BRST g 6 eee ren T T 221 Access Rights lt Passwords saci eden eek 221 FUZZY Igor irie T 221 misse uu t 222 Advanced tuning or the TM iioii crates ee ele 222 43 Handling legacy old format TMS 223 IV SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL SDL Trados Studio a presentation Migrating non Studio format TMS into Studio ccccsccsssecesseessseessseeesseeesees 223 Importing files into an existing Studio TM eseeeeseeeessee 224 A Importing TTX ITD and SDLXLIFF bilingual files 224 B Importing DOC and RTF bilingual files sese 226 C Importing TMX TSS ese Ro e p ene one eiut aa ipn eonun fatu S midi 226 D Upgrading legacy old format TMS ccccssccssseesssseessseesesseeessseesesseeeens 228 Uporading OMS TIS ONY NET o oo 228 Upgrading One Or MOre TICS avec ccsiavee TE a mo 229 E Migrating INI and ANL files from XML ccccsccccesssseeeessseeeessneeesessneeetesaes 233 Aligning transl
48. tation rules they will totally replace the Studio ones With some restrictions Formatting Segmentation rules only Trados 2007 The lists only if they are user defined Only segmentation rules Except for the Word formats DOC and RTF TMs that are based on bilingual formats have the added advantage of including context match information which makes possible both Context Match and Perfect Match analysis see p 99 which may make it more advanta geous to import such files than to upgrade the corresponding TMX files if you have the choice On the other hand bilingual files do not contain custom fields Note As the table shows TMX files can be either imported into existing Studio TMs or upgraded into new Studio TMs In the former case the imported file is not scanned for custom fields but you can choose to import ignore those When importing you may also filter out unwanted TUs and define what custom field values to apply to the imported TUs if the target TM contains custom fields During upgrade custom fields which do not contain any values will not be included in the process Importing files into an existing Studio TM A Importing TTX ITD and SDLXLIFF bilingual files 224 Supported bilingual formats for import are Trados 2007 TTX and SDLX 2007 ITD and Studio SDLXLIFF O In the Translation Memories view right click the desired TM and se lect Import or select che TM and then File Import The Impo
49. tespace characters cccccccsseecccceeseeeeeeceeeeseeeeeeseeeeesaaeeeeessaseeesseneesenaeees 150 Rr eHacinelropuer T 151 INOS UAC PME m mU UEM 152 Translatable and non translatable tags ccccssecccccseeeeeeseeeeeeseeeeeesaeeeeeaaeees 153 30 Automatic substitution localization of specific expressions 154 3r AUTO SUG OCS te ceri dace abies Deg dese a E Doe c que de UN 158 SEEMING p AUIOSUggesL s eet aet Rcs dudit eise edited beat eod 158 Generating adding an AutoSuggest dictionary sess 159 Creating AUTEK ENNES aac ocaeca Sin decia note oci aen ect Oo hate Meses 163 Termlnjector and auto insertion ccccsscecessseecsseecesseeesssseesssseeessseeessseeessaes 164 32 AAUTO PKOD AG AION emet 167 39 OPEILCNECKIN O TETTE Te 169 CHECKING TMG spellng sirccrpriin a bete ce Bpod 169 opellicheckihnga Sel jS 32e tsp aria D Dci et TOi ca OD 170 Meurs eseke eie 170 34 COmmeHlls oo vesu uetus oai resu A utrius undc idus wed atas cp DN Ud M DE va dun EE 173 35 Changes in source documents 1eeeeeeeee eene rennen nnn 176 Source documents with tracked changes sess 176 ECIUNG S re segmente aei aou vestit cau too Dau ota pir Quos aves le tu usur Dat tUe 177 SO SV CRUG AUN ONY NET I TIT 179 Verifying the translation esses eene nennen nnne nnns 180 Automatic verification verification dur
50. this Insert Tag b Bold Apply bold 4 Italic Apply italic MJ Underline Apply underline x Subscript Apply subscript ial Superscript Apply superscript And Small Caps Apply small caps b No Bold Force bold off i No Italic Force italic off ul No Underline Force underline off ix No Superscript Force superscript off Ea No Subscript Force subscript off ce BR BR o H E M M MM MM E X E Optional Hyphen Insert an optional hyphen Mon Breaking Hyphen Insert a non breaking hypher lt gt LAM Lett to right mark e If the source segment contains many tags it may be preferable to copy source to target Ctrl Hnsert and overtype the non placeable text e You can of course also copy placeables and any text containing them from anywhere to a place in a target segment e Move a placeable Drag it with the mouse to the desired posi tion If it s one of a tag pair see below both tags will be moved but not any text between them However if Track Changes p 201 is enabled this method does not work You cannot move placeables from source to target segment in this way If as sometimes happens a source segment contains several adja cent tags it can be bothersome to insert them one by one There is a way to avoid that enabled by default open Tools gt Options and select Editor In the Side by side Editor area there is the option to Group adjacent tags in formatting window m
51. ts specification of which custom field values p 217 shall be assigned to the imported TUs if the importing TM has such fields the bilingual files do not The other options are self explanatory Here it is important to con sider whether to import TUs as plain text in which case all tags in SDL Trados Studio 2011 THE MANUAL 225 a Translation Units maintenance The Translation Memories view The Translation Memories view 1s where you edit the TUs stored in your TMs i e change texts formatting field values etc in fact much like you work with the segments when translating one differ ence being that you can also edit the source segments another that you also have field values to manipulate if you have defined custom fields The view typically looks like this as usual you can customize it by moving any pane which has a symbol in its title list see p 13 Navigation pane Menus and toolbars Search Details pane WSDL Trados itudio 11Q3 MTKG 110720 Bl x File Edit Maintenance View Project Tools Help Bg Open Translation Memory 6 Open Document e New Project Open Package 5 S Gaan Translation Memori lt gt 07 ESBE Search Details I x TM Filter mofites e tu ww FerName xnofite gt Source Text o Target Test o J Translation Melnories Test memory Test2 VMware c Language Resource Templates Search Type
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