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Which CAT tool's bilingual review files use ELX tags?
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
Local time: 07:11
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Feb 20, 2013

G'day everyone

I received "bilingual review" type of MS Word files today that must have been generated by a tool that I haven't encountered before. I'm just curious to know which tool it came from. The bilingual files have three columns, namely source, reference, and target. A unique-looking feature is that the tags are grey, in curly brackets, and have the letters ELX before the numbers. If there is a fuzzy match, the reference column contains both previous source text and targ... See more
G'day everyone

I received "bilingual review" type of MS Word files today that must have been generated by a tool that I haven't encountered before. I'm just curious to know which tool it came from. The bilingual files have three columns, namely source, reference, and target. A unique-looking feature is that the tags are grey, in curly brackets, and have the letters ELX before the numbers. If there is a fuzzy match, the reference column contains both previous source text and target text in the same cell.

Does anyone recognise this file?

Thanks
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Dominique Pivard
Dominique Pivard  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:11
Finnish to French
Custom, in-house tool? Feb 21, 2013

It's probably a custom tool developed in-house. Many agencies are using such tools. For instance, here is a snapshot of a Word document I received last year:



It was a Word document in which I was supposed to enter the translations in the third column.

A custom template (.dot) was supplied with the document, that was supposed to be used for the translation:



In other words, they had re-invented their own version of Wordfast

 


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Which CAT tool's bilingual review files use ELX tags?







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