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WFC: length(target)

Thread poster: DZiW (X)

DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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May 19, 2009

Hi.

As far as I exported a software piece messages to .txt and wanna localize it using WFc I would like to learn:

Is there a way to limit the length of a target segment up to the length of a source segment?

By now I found that Pandora (directly?) cannot...

TY

Daniel Grau

Argentina
Member (2008)
English to Spanish

No, but there is a workaround

May 20, 2009

Change to a mono-spaced font, like Courier, where all characters have the same width. Then, as the source and target segments appear one after the other, just make sure your translation does not exceed the length of the source.

You should work in Normal View (not Page View), enable Wrap to Window and use a really wide window. The idea is to minimize automatic line breaks, which would hamper your visual length-matching.

Regards,

Daniel

DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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TOPIC STARTER

Thank you, Daniel

May 20, 2009

I see your point and it sound fine. Still it remains a manual procedure thus I still can go beyond the limits and make a mistake...

Also I think that I've seen some CAT with 'fixed length'-like feature, but I cannot think of the name yet. Somehow I suspected wf.

Ok, it's already something to go

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