How to count bilingual files Thread poster: Fernando Toledo
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I have a lot of files in two languages but only one language should be translate.
How can I analyse it.
To delete the other language is a option for a few files but a I have a lot, and with tonnes of tables, how can I mark the other language as NON TRANSLATE or so
Thks
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 06:34
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Delete by unique word | Aug 9, 2006 |
Fernando Toledo wrote:
I have a lot of files in two languages but only one language should be translate. ... How can I analyse it?
How about deleting whole sentences based on what words they have in them. Use words that are common in the one language but unlikely to occur in the other.
For example, if I had a bilingual document in AF-ZA and EN-UK, I would notice that since the word "the" is unlikely to occur in a AF-ZA text, it would be safe for me to delete all sentences that contain "the" if I had wanted the retain only AF-ZA.
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Samuel Murray wrote: Fernando Toledo wrote:
I have a lot of files in two languages but only one language should be translate. ... How can I analyse it? How about deleting whole sentences based on what words they have in them. Use words that are common in the one language but unlikely to occur in the other. For example, if I had a bilingual document in AF-ZA and EN-UK, I would notice that since the word "the" is unlikely to occur in a AF-ZA text, it would be safe for me to delete all sentences that contain "the" if I had wanted the retain only AF-ZA.
about thousands of tables!
I though about a Search&replace or something like that to mark all the things that don't need to be translated (the other language) applied in all the docs at once.
Has +Plus tools this function?
Manually is no possible (or to much time)
Thks
| | | | Marek Buchtel
Czech Republic
Local time: 06:34
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English to Czech
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SITE LOCALIZER | I can be done | Aug 9, 2006 |
Hi Fernando,
It can be done, provided that the appropriate language (for the spellchecker) is set for the respective language.
Then you can use search and replace to search for the text in the respective language, and change its style to untranslatable.
Confirm that the languages are set in your language, and I will tell you what to do
Marek
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Marek Buchtel wrote: Hi Fernando, Confirm that the languages are set in your language, and I will tell you what to do Marek
I can select the whole text and select the language to be translated... or?
| | | | Marek Buchtel
Czech Republic
Local time: 06:34
Member (2005)
English to Czech
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SITE LOCALIZER | Search and replace | Aug 9, 2006 |
I assume we are talking about MS Word, right?
What I mean is that each sentence has the appropriate language assigned to the text, i.e. when you run the spellchecker, it will, for example, check the English sentences in English, and the Spanish sentences in Spanish.
Then you can do the following (in MS Word, with Trados installed and Trados toolbar visible):
1) Press Alt+F8
2) In the window that appears, select the macro "sAddTagStyles" and click Run<... See more I assume we are talking about MS Word, right?
What I mean is that each sentence has the appropriate language assigned to the text, i.e. when you run the spellchecker, it will, for example, check the English sentences in English, and the Spanish sentences in Spanish.
Then you can do the following (in MS Word, with Trados installed and Trados toolbar visible):
1) Press Alt+F8
2) In the window that appears, select the macro "sAddTagStyles" and click Run
3) Press Ctrl+H (or select Edit->Replace from the menu)
4) Place cursor in the Find field, click on More and then Format, and then select Language. In the list, select the langugage, which you do NOT want to translate. Click OK
5) Place cursor in the Replace field (back in the Replace window)
6) Select the button Format agaim at the bottom of the Replace window, and then choose Style
7) From the list. select the style tw4winExternal, then click OK
8) Now you can click Replace All (back in the Replace windows)
All the text with the respective language will change to the tw4winExternal style, which Trados regards as untranslatable.
Pretty complicated, huh?
Well, I am not good at explaining. If anything is unclear, just ask ▲ Collapse
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Pretty complicated, huh? Well, I am not good at explaining. If anything is unclear, just ask
Is all OK, I will give it a try tomorrow!
Thnks!
Regards
Fernando
| | | | Peter Linton (X)
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| Thanks Marek | Aug 10, 2006 |
An excellent solution, Marek, thank you for explainng it so well.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 06:34
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Why should the number of tables matter? | Aug 10, 2006 |
Fernando Toledo wrote:
I am speaking about thousands of tables!
So am I.
Well, you'd have to write a macro or search/replace regex that marks all text from the beginning of a setnence to the end of a sentence, if that sentence contains the offending word, but my macro writing skills are not sufficient to do that.
With my limited skills and tools, I would have used OmegaT for this, coupled with an autoskipper script (available on the OmegaT yahoogroup's archive). But this is probably too complex for you.
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 06:34
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| I didn't realise the languages were marked | Aug 10, 2006 |
Marek Buchtel wrote:
What I mean is that each sentence has the appropriate language assigned to the text, i.e. when you run the spellchecker, it will, for example, check the English sentences in English, and the Spanish sentences in Spanish.
I didn't realise, from the OP's post, that the different languages were already marked for spell-checking purposes. I had assumed they weren't. Of course, if they are already marked, then it's a simple matter of Find/Replace (as you described) to do it.
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