Copy source all? Thread poster: Heinrich Pesch
| Heinrich Pesch Finland Local time: 08:34 Member (2003) Finnish to German + ...
I would like to pre-translate the files so that the source would be copied to target on no match. Is that possible in WFP? I'm tired of pressing alt+ins a thousand times. | | | Gerard de Noord France Local time: 07:34 Member (2003) English to Dutch + ... Tools/Tools/Translate | May 19, 2011 |
Combine Tools/Tools/Translate with the PB option CopySourceWhenNoMatch. That should do the trick. Cheers, Gerard PS Sorry, that's a WFC solution. Isn't it a drag that WFP can't do the same? That would also be a perfect solution for translating WFP pretranslated documents in WFC. Gerard
[Edited at 2011-05-19 17:27 GMT] | | | Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 07:34 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Heinrich Pesch wrote: I would like to pre-translate the files so that the source would be copied to target on no match. Is that possible in WFP? 1. If none of the cells contain a translation yet, set your fuzzy match percentage to 100%, turn off all penalties, select a blank TM, and then select Copy Source When No Match (somewhere). Then just use the "down" button to zip through all segments. 2. If some of the cells contain a translation, you need to visit them individually and press Alt+Ins on each of them, individually. | | | Alex Lago Spain Local time: 07:34 English to Spanish + ... Followin Samuel's explanation.... | May 19, 2011 |
To reach what Samuel mentioned, just click on Edit, then Preferences and then on Translation Memory, the first option at the top of the screen is "Copy source on no match" | |
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Egils Turks Latvia Local time: 08:34 English to Latvian + ... Match when TM is blank? | May 19, 2011 |
Samuel Murray wrote: 1. .. a blank TM, ... I don't get it. I thought that source had to be copied ONLY on no match. If TM is blank/empty, how you can get match or no match? | | | Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 07:34 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ... Just extra protection | May 19, 2011 |
Egils Turks wrote: Samuel Murray wrote: 1. .. a blank TM, ... I don't get it. I thought that source had to be copied ONLY on no match. If TM is blank/empty, how you can get match or no match? Oh, I misinterpreted what the original poster's wanted. You can use your existing TM, of course, but if you do the copying quickly, you won't notice if a segment is auto-inserted from the TM, and that means that you won't check that segment to see if it is correct. | | | Jorge Payan Colombia Local time: 01:34 Member (2002) German to Spanish + ... Murphy's Law: "When everything fails, read the manual" | May 20, 2011 |
The command is Ctrl + Alt+ Ins. I use it very extensively as to pre-processing the txml file this way becomes necessary before starting the traslation with DVX, which is by far my CAT of choice. Saludos | | | Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 07:34 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ... Not quite, Jorge | May 20, 2011 |
Jorge Payan wrote: The command is Ctrl + Alt+ Ins. This command does make all segments source=target, but it does it to *all* segments, and not only to the non-translated ones. Anyway, it is nice to know about it, since I will definitely make use of it. | |
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Oana Popescu Romania Local time: 08:34 English to Romanian + ... Undo copy all source segments | Apr 17, 2013 |
Samuel Murray wrote: Jorge Payan wrote: The command is Ctrl + Alt+ Ins. This command does make all segments source=target, but it does it to *all* segments, and not only to the non-translated ones. Anyway, it is nice to know about it, since I will definitely make use of it. I found out about this command the wrong way, when I pressed the Ins key instead of Del by accident, while I was translating in WF Pro. When I saw the message (that all source segments are copied to the target) and cancelled it, it was too late, half of my translation was ruined. I tried to undo it (edit, undo), but this only undid the last segments that I typed. I tried to retranslate, using the TM (ALT+Down), but strangely, it did not work. The only solution was to close the document without saving it, and open it again. Luckily, I did not lose more than segments, so I don´t know if this time it would have been possible to recover the lost part (by closing without saving) with ALT+Down, but anyway the solution does not seem elegant, so I wonder if it is possible to undo this command (CTRL+Alt+Ins) in another way. | | |
The same thing just happened to me, this comment saved me 100 segments, I had pressed Alt Gr+Insert, thank you! | | | Raija Rapo (X) Finland Local time: 08:34 English to Finnish Wonderful, thank you! | Dec 16, 2015 |
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