| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Expand function in Wordfast Thread poster: Monika Lebenbaum (X)
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Monika Lebenbaum (X)
Local time: 11:55
French to Swedish
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Hi,
Im trying to learn Wordfast but I can't even get the expand button working. I created a TM and translated a few sentences but need to expand a segment. Im clicking on the button and I tried the shortcut aswell but nothing happens. Anybody out there who can explain what Im doing wrong???
Thank you in advance.
| | | | | In some cases you can't expand... | Aug 17, 2006 |
Hi Monika,
For example, I don't think you can expand beyond a paragraph mark, a page break, or the end of a cell in a table. But you should be able to get past periods. If the text is segmenting after abbreviations (because of the period in Prof. for example) you can customize the list of abbreviations in Setup -> Segments.
Hope that helps.
Anna
| | | | Gerard de Noord 
France
Local time: 11:55
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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| Try to keep the natural segmentation | Aug 17, 2006 |
Hi Monika,
When setting up Wordfast you can define a list of abbreviations, like Anna explained.
To add an abbreviation to the list and expand the current segment on the fly, just select the abbr. including the dot and push Ctrl+Alt+T.
In other cases I wouldn't expand segments, because they wouldn't be recognised the next time. And isn't that the purpose of segmenting?
Kind regards,
Gerard
| | | | Monika Lebenbaum (X)
Local time: 11:55
French to Swedish
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TOPIC STARTER
Thank you both for your comments. However, the problem remains unsolved! This segment that Im trying to expand is actually one sentence that has been cut up for some reason. There are no paragraph marks, cell breaks, etc. Maybe it's just one of those bugs...
Wishing you a good night.
Kind regards,
Monika
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| My testing of WF 5.25o1 and 5.21 | Aug 18, 2006 |
Monika L wrote:
Maybe it's just one of those bugs...
Monika
I tested it now. In version WF 5.25o1 was a feature not working and for exeample in old 5.21 was Expand working fine.
I put cursor after dot and click "Expand".
Milan
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| | | | Antje Harder
Sweden
Local time: 11:55
Swedish to German
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| Expand works only for "unsegmented" text | Aug 18, 2006 |
Hi Monika,
the "expand" function works only the first time you open a segment. As soon as you continue to the next segment or close the segment and the TU-delimiter tags appear you cannot expand that segment anymore.
In that case the only solution is to delete that part of the document (which hopefully is a copy of the original...) and copy the untranslated and unsegmented text from the original document into your working document.
Does this solve your prob... See more Hi Monika,
the "expand" function works only the first time you open a segment. As soon as you continue to the next segment or close the segment and the TU-delimiter tags appear you cannot expand that segment anymore.
In that case the only solution is to delete that part of the document (which hopefully is a copy of the original...) and copy the untranslated and unsegmented text from the original document into your working document.
Does this solve your problem?
Regards from Lund
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| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 12:55
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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You can eliminate a segmented pair of translation units by opening them and pressing ctrl+alt+x, which empties the target segment. Then alt+up to the previous segment etc.
If expand segment does not work you can do as in Trados and delete/copy the following text into the target segment.
Or you empty the current segment (ctrl+alt+x), go back and highlight the text you want to translate and press alt+shift+down. This function I use most of the time when the document is badly formatted.... See more You can eliminate a segmented pair of translation units by opening them and pressing ctrl+alt+x, which empties the target segment. Then alt+up to the previous segment etc.
If expand segment does not work you can do as in Trados and delete/copy the following text into the target segment.
Or you empty the current segment (ctrl+alt+x), go back and highlight the text you want to translate and press alt+shift+down. This function I use most of the time when the document is badly formatted.
Regards
Heinrich
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| | | | Antje Harder
Sweden
Local time: 11:55
Swedish to German
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| Deleting delimiters | Aug 18, 2006 |
Hi Heinrich,
You can eliminate a segmented pair of translation units by opening them and pressing ctrl+alt+x, which empties the source segment. Then alt+up to the previous segment etc.
If expand segment does not work you can do as in Trados and delete/copy the following text into the target segment.
"source segment" should probably read "target segment"?
But otherwise it works great - I thought I had tried that but maybe I was wrong.
Or you empty the current segment (ctrl+alt+x), go back and highlight the text you want to translate and press alt+shift+down. This function I use most of the time when the document is badly formatted.
Yes, I forgot about "alt+shift+down" - haven't used it in a long while. Usually "alt + arrow down" does the trick for me.
Regards from Lund
Antje
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Monika Lebenbaum (X)
Local time: 11:55
French to Swedish
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TOPIC STARTER | Feature not working | Aug 18, 2006 |
Thank you Anna, Gerard, Milan, Antje and Heinrich!
I have the wf 525 version so I guess the feature doesn't work as Milan wrote. Good to know it wasn't me! And as for the document, I guess it was badly formatted. I tried WF on another document where the segmentation was according to the sentences and not in the middle of them.
All your advices will be useful as I shall continue struggling with learning Wordfast. Im sure I will be back with more questions soon...
... See more Thank you Anna, Gerard, Milan, Antje and Heinrich!
I have the wf 525 version so I guess the feature doesn't work as Milan wrote. Good to know it wasn't me! And as for the document, I guess it was badly formatted. I tried WF on another document where the segmentation was according to the sentences and not in the middle of them.
All your advices will be useful as I shall continue struggling with learning Wordfast. Im sure I will be back with more questions soon...
Have a nice week-end wherever you are,
Regards,
Monika ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Space character as delimiter (or end-of-segment mark, "ESP") | Aug 19, 2006 |
I have a question to Wordfast experts.
I’d like Wordfast to perceive the space character as the delimiter of segments, which would result in each segment being just one word long. I’m going to use it for glossing of texts (entering some information next to each word).
In Wordfast’s Setup/Segs pane, I have tried to enter the space character in various ways, including its ASCII code, Unicode code – but nothing seems to work so far.
(There is a workaround –... See more I have a question to Wordfast experts.
I’d like Wordfast to perceive the space character as the delimiter of segments, which would result in each segment being just one word long. I’m going to use it for glossing of texts (entering some information next to each word).
In Wordfast’s Setup/Segs pane, I have tried to enter the space character in various ways, including its ASCII code, Unicode code – but nothing seems to work so far.
(There is a workaround – replacing all spaces temporarily with, let’s say middle-dot+space and defining the middle dot as another delimiter/ESP.)
Is there, however, a way of doing it in a straight fashion?
Please also mention the Wordfast version.
To sum up: Each translation unit (or, segment) = one word.
Regards,
Valters Feists
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| | | | Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 11:55
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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| Space character as delimiter | Aug 19, 2006 |
Hi Valters,
You'd normally use the +Extract function of +Tools for that.
Kind regards,
Gerard
| | | | | re: Space character as delimiter | Aug 19, 2006 |
Gerard de Noord wrote:...
You'd normally use the +Extract function of +Tools for that.
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Thanks, Gerard.
What I meant wasn't an automated method for extraction of glossaries as in technical translation, but rather glossing as in linguistics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss ; http://www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/Briefing_Papers/bp5.php?id=204 .
The result would be a file translated manually word-by-word with the help of Wordfast, each segment containing by default just one single word.
The only thing I miss to do that is how to automatically obtain a segment break at every space character.
[Edited at 2006-08-19 21:58]
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Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 11:55
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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| I'm not sure | Aug 19, 2006 |
I'm just a translator, not a linguist, but I'm good with computers and with Wordfast. What's your aim? Do you want to keep the sequence of all the words, even with all the repetitions?
Why don't you just replace spaces with ^t or ^p in Word, before segmenting? The result would be one-word segments. Use a current version of Wordfast to translate them.
Regards,
Gerard
| | | | Samantha Payn
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:55
Member (2008)
Russian to English
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| Expand shortcut suddenly no longer functioning | Sep 26, 2012 |
I've been using WF Classic for a while quite happily now without problems, but suddenly the expand segment command is not working. I've tried using the button and the keyboard shortcut (alt. pgdn). I have removed and restarted WF Classic and the problem remains.
(I should add that there are no paragraph marks or other "forbidden" delimiters causing the problem that I can see).
Can anyone help me, please?
[Edited at 2012-09-26 08:41 GMT]
ETA: I have discovered I can force... See more I've been using WF Classic for a while quite happily now without problems, but suddenly the expand segment command is not working. I've tried using the button and the keyboard shortcut (alt. pgdn). I have removed and restarted WF Classic and the problem remains.
(I should add that there are no paragraph marks or other "forbidden" delimiters causing the problem that I can see).
Can anyone help me, please?
[Edited at 2012-09-26 08:41 GMT]
ETA: I have discovered I can force segment my way through a a document, but it is rather hard work!
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| | | | | Document-specific? | Sep 26, 2012 |
Samantha Payn wrote:
I've been using WF Classic for a while quite happily now without problems, but suddenly the expand segment command is not working. I've tried using the button and the keyboard shortcut (alt. pgdn). I have removed and restarted WF Classic and the problem remains.
(I should add that there are no paragraph marks or other "forbidden" delimiters causing the problem that I can see).
Does this occur with all documents, or only the one you're currently working on?
You didn't mention your version, but I assume you are using the latest one (6.03t).
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