TRADOS Question Thread poster: Libin PhD
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In a paragraph, I have something like the following:
To do A, press 1. To do B, press 2. To do C, press 3. To do D, Press 4. To do E, press 5. To do F, press 6.
Is there any way that you can set the segmentation rule to break at the number + period combinations? right now, Trados treat them as a single sentence since the period is after a number and is construed as a decimal point probably.
Thanks for your help.
... See more In a paragraph, I have something like the following:
To do A, press 1. To do B, press 2. To do C, press 3. To do D, Press 4. To do E, press 5. To do F, press 6.
Is there any way that you can set the segmentation rule to break at the number + period combinations? right now, Trados treat them as a single sentence since the period is after a number and is construed as a decimal point probably.
Thanks for your help.
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Monika Coulson 
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Member (2001)
English to Albanian
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SITE LOCALIZER | Shrink segment? | Mar 7, 2003 |
Did you try clicking on \"Shrink segment?\"
It may work.
Monika
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Libin PhD
Chinese to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Yes, That is what I have been doing. | Mar 7, 2003 |
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On 2003-03-07 17:09, monika wrote:
Did you try clicking on \"Shrink segment?\"
It may work.
Monika
Thanks, Monika, for your reminder. That is what I have been doing. I have quite few paragraphs that have the similar phrases from press 1 to press 8. To get the first item, you need shrink 7 times. It is kind of cumbersome.
Thanks,
Libin... See more Quote:
On 2003-03-07 17:09, monika wrote:
Did you try clicking on \"Shrink segment?\"
It may work.
Monika
Thanks, Monika, for your reminder. That is what I have been doing. I have quite few paragraphs that have the similar phrases from press 1 to press 8. To get the first item, you need shrink 7 times. It is kind of cumbersome.
Thanks,
Libin
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Giles Watson
Italy
Local time: 12:34
Italian to English
In memoriam | Have you ticked "Number Stop"? | Mar 7, 2003 |
If, in Workbench, you go to:
File\\Setup\\Segmentation Rules
and enable \"Number Stop\" by ticking the box, that should do the trick.
There\'s also a Help entry on the \"Full Stop End Rule\".
HTH
Giles
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You can change the segmentation rules. In Workbench go to File/Setup/Segmentation rules.
For Stop Charakter . in the middle section Rules check Number Stop. Now a number followed by a dot should be the end of a segment.
In this or in other cases, you could also use a workaround with Search and Replace, thus preparing your Word file.
Search \". To do\"
and Replace by \". Paragraph mark To do\".
HTH
Daniel
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Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 03:34
English to German
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In memoriam | Insert a tab character | Mar 7, 2003 |
I often get files that were extracted from a .pdf, and there are only spaces following the period in a numbered list (or, for that matter, a bulleted list).
I simply prep the Word file by replacing the spaces after the period with a tab character, and then Trados will ignore the numbers in numbered steps. The same procedure works for bulleted lists.
It\'s a bit more work initially, but I consider it a good investment of my time. And it keeps the TM \"clean\".
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Libin PhD
Chinese to English
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TOPIC STARTER
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On 2003-03-07 17:39, Daniel Meier wrote:
You can change the segmentation rules. In Workbench go to File/Setup/Segmentation rules.
For Stop Charakter . in the middle section Rules check Number Stop. Now a number followed by a dot should be the end of a segment.
In this or in other cases, you could also use a workaround with Search and Replace, thus preparing your Word file.
Search \". To do\"
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Quote:
On 2003-03-07 17:39, Daniel Meier wrote:
You can change the segmentation rules. In Workbench go to File/Setup/Segmentation rules.
For Stop Charakter . in the middle section Rules check Number Stop. Now a number followed by a dot should be the end of a segment.
In this or in other cases, you could also use a workaround with Search and Replace, thus preparing your Word file.
Search \". To do\"
and Replace by \". Paragraph mark To do\".
HTH
Daniel
Thanks, Daniel, for your suggestion. I think I tried that before. However, if you check the \"Number Stop\" check box, Trados treat period as boundary marker ONLY if it is preceded by a number. If it is not preceded by a number, it will not be recognized as a sentence.
I will give it a little more test and see what happens.
Kind regards,
Libin
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Libin PhD
Chinese to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Adding a tab should work. | Mar 9, 2003 |
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On 2003-03-07 19:16, uel wrote:
I often get files that were extracted from a .pdf, and there are only spaces following the period in a numbered list (or, for that matter, a bulleted list).
I simply prep the Word file by replacing the spaces after the period with a tab character, and then Trados will ignore the numbers in numbered steps. The same procedure works for bulleted lists.
It\'s a bit more work i
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On 2003-03-07 19:16, uel wrote:
I often get files that were extracted from a .pdf, and there are only spaces following the period in a numbered list (or, for that matter, a bulleted list).
I simply prep the Word file by replacing the spaces after the period with a tab character, and then Trados will ignore the numbers in numbered steps. The same procedure works for bulleted lists.
It\'s a bit more work initially, but I consider it a good investment of my time. And it keeps the TM \"clean\".
Thanks, Ulrike. Adding a tab should work. It looks like that we cannot always expect the program to do everything for us.
Thanks a lot.
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