Proper names and placeables in Trados 6.5

Ralf Lemster wrote:

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Clarisa Moraña wrote:

Taken from the Trados user manual, page 4-18:

To create or modify the variable list:
1 From the File menu, select Setup and click the Substitutions tab.
2 Under Automatic substitutions, select Variables. This activates the Variable list.
3 Click Edit to open Notepad.
4 In Notepad, create or modify the list of variables as required. Check that the list is formatted according to the properties outlined in the previous section.
5 Save and close the file in Notepad. Note that the file name for the list is automatically assigned by Translator’s Workbench and must not be changed.
6. Translator’s Workbench asks you to confirm the changes that you have made to the variable list. Click Yes to confirm the changes.
7 On the Substitutions tab, check the contents of the list as displayed in the Variable list box.
8. Click OK to save the variable list in the translation memory setup and to close the Setup dialog
box.
D NOTE
If you do not click OK in the Setup dialog box, the changes you have made to the variable list are
discarded.
9 If the translation memory you are using already contains translation units, reorganise the
translation memory. Translator's Workbench can only process the variables correctly after a
reorganisation of the translation memory.


You have to take into account that:

Variables must appear exactly as they do in your documents, otherwise Translator's Workbench will not recognise them.
C Each item in the list must be on a line of its own, for example:
TRADOS GXT
TRADOS MultiTerm
Paris
Bremen
C Punctuation inside variables, such as hyphens or commas, is not supported.

Regards

Clarisa