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Unwanted Tags in Translation Memory
Thread poster: Frank Gersemsky
Frank Gersemsky
Frank Gersemsky
German to English
Nov 1, 2004

Hi,
I have two questions related to the handling of tags when translating text in Excel documents.
1) When I convert the Excel file to TRADOS ttx via TagEditor there are a huge amount of tag declarations shown. The contents of each cell is embraced by a TAG pair defining the font type and size of this text portion.
Since the format of my whole Excel sheet is the same, I wonder if these TAG definition are really necessary.

2) It gets even worse if the text in a ce... See more
Hi,
I have two questions related to the handling of tags when translating text in Excel documents.
1) When I convert the Excel file to TRADOS ttx via TagEditor there are a huge amount of tag declarations shown. The contents of each cell is embraced by a TAG pair defining the font type and size of this text portion.
Since the format of my whole Excel sheet is the same, I wonder if these TAG definition are really necessary.

2) It gets even worse if the text in a cell is split into multiple segments. This occurs when I start the translation job.

I would expect it to look like this :
|cell) |cf) |TU) German text segment1 (100) English Text Segment 1 (TU| |TU) German text segment2 (100) English Text Segment 2 (TU|(cf|(cell|

In my case it looks like this :
|cell) |TU) |cf) German text segment1 (100) |cf) English Text Segment 1 (TU| |TU) German text segment2(cf| (100) English Text Segment 2 (cf|(TU|(cell|
(I hope this is readable at all.)

The problem is that now the font declaration becomes part of my translation units. The workbench is now looking for something like "|cf) German text segment 1" in the translation memory and after I provide the translation it ends up in the translation memory as well.

Does anyone have an idea what might be going wrong here?

Best Regards,

Frank

[Edited at 2004-11-01 11:23] ▲ Collapse
 
Frank Gersemsky
Frank Gersemsky
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
Get rid of the tags in Excel to TTX Conversion Nov 1, 2004

Hi,
I would like to get some feedback on the following idea:
Is it possible to avoid all the tags related to font type and size when converting an Excel file to TTX format?

My Excel file does not use different font types / sizes. So if I could convince the TagEditor / Workbench to ignore the font information, life would be much easier.

If there is no easy switch for this, maybe someone tried to change the Excel filter (Excel_2_0_0_0.xml). I am not an XML exp... See more
Hi,
I would like to get some feedback on the following idea:
Is it possible to avoid all the tags related to font type and size when converting an Excel file to TTX format?

My Excel file does not use different font types / sizes. So if I could convince the TagEditor / Workbench to ignore the font information, life would be much easier.

If there is no easy switch for this, maybe someone tried to change the Excel filter (Excel_2_0_0_0.xml). I am not an XML expert and trial and error might not be a good idea.

Best Regards,

Frank ▲ Collapse
 


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