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Sentence delimitation, here: Tab character
Thread poster: Matthias Brombach
Matthias Brombach
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Oct 22, 2012

Dear colleagues,
I often have to translate technical documents where values, phrases and even sentences are segmented by tab characters. Although I know where to set segmentation rules ("split") and their exceptions, I cannot find in the manual how to express the tab character in the setting field.
Thanks in advance for any hints,

best regards,

Matthias
 
Matthias Brombach
Matthias Brombach  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 22:10
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What about inserting tab space? Dec 4, 2012

Dear colleagues,
Okay, I understand that either there is no solution for that problem of mine or I wasn´t understood properly.
Again:
DV isn´t able (at least in my configuration) to split certain segments where the content isn´t isolated by punctuation but by space generated by the tab key in the source, but I would like to make DV to separate those phrases, content, whatever too.
Alternatively, I also would be happy to insert the tab generated space in the target fiel... See more
Dear colleagues,
Okay, I understand that either there is no solution for that problem of mine or I wasn´t understood properly.
Again:
DV isn´t able (at least in my configuration) to split certain segments where the content isn´t isolated by punctuation but by space generated by the tab key in the source, but I would like to make DV to separate those phrases, content, whatever too.
Alternatively, I also would be happy to insert the tab generated space in the target field of DV (instead of making dozens of like demonstrated).
Yes, I could use F5 and overwrite the source, leaving the tab space, but that´s not the elegant way.
Thank you for any hints,
best regards,

Matthias ▲ Collapse
 
Selcuk Akyuz
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English to Turkish
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Ctrl+Shift+I Dec 4, 2012

Matthias Brombach wrote:

Alternatively, I also would be happy to insert the tab generated space in the target field of DV (instead of making dozens of like demonstrated).


Hi Matthias,

Try Ctrl+Shift+I to insert a tab character.

For most file types, tabs are converted into codes. AFAIR, SDLXLIFF is an exception - tab characters are not converted and represented by codes in those files.

DVX2 still does not display such characters so I use an SQL filter to select all segments with tabs.


Source or Target segments with tabs

Source LIKE "* *" OR Target_XXXX LIKE "* *"


Please add a TAB character between the asterisk symbols.
 
Matthias Brombach
Matthias Brombach  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 22:10
Member (2007)
Dutch to German
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Perfect! Dec 4, 2012

Hi Selcuk,

great! The key combination works perfectly and I will try your SQL filter later when there is more time. In any way, thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Matthias
 


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