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Why is it necessary to use Trados for presegmentation?
Thread poster: Heinrich Pesch
Heinrich Pesch Finland Local time: 06:06 Member (2003) Finnish to German + ...
Oct 11, 2011
When someone sends me ttx-files, I cannot translate them in WFP straight away, but have to presegment them first in Trados WB. Why is that? After all the ttx is only a text file, and all segments are already defined, when I look at it in Tageditor. All inner and outer tags are there.
Shouldn't it be possible to duplicate all segments and insert the necessary tags at front and end and a 0% tag in between? So we would get a file where source and target segments are identical. ... See more
When someone sends me ttx-files, I cannot translate them in WFP straight away, but have to presegment them first in Trados WB. Why is that? After all the ttx is only a text file, and all segments are already defined, when I look at it in Tageditor. All inner and outer tags are there.
Shouldn't it be possible to duplicate all segments and insert the necessary tags at front and end and a 0% tag in between? So we would get a file where source and target segments are identical.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me where' the secret of pre-segmentation. ▲ Collapse
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