Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: SDL Trados 2014 New bugs & shortcomings
Poster: TiagoVanRheenen
Post title: Clear Formatting NOT a "consistent apprach"
[quote]SDL Support wrote:
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- When i select superscript, bold and any other type of formatting related to text changes...those options can be activated but can't be DEACTIVATED. This means that if i activate superscript...the line will keep going in that format forever unless i do tricks. This is the same for bold etc. Is that me doing something wrong or is it a bug? If so...any chance to fix it? IT's very time consuming, for example in formulas or other things that require BOLD, ITALIC etc.
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You need to use Clear Formatting. This is a consistent approach for all formatting for any filetype in Studio. It's this button here:
[IMG] [url removed] [/IMG]
You can also use the keyboard shortcuts as you work. So Ctrl+spacebar deactivates. [b]Clear All Formatting [/b]will remove all the tags in the segment.
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- Symbols, special characters (French and Italian accents also capitalized). Is it possible to simply add a table of those i can directly select them rather than ALT+XXX (which on a chinese keyboard also may change things quite a bit as, at least in my case, correspondences are never the standard ones on my PC). Apart from that, remembering every single ALT+ combination is pure madness.
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Sounds like a useful enhancement... but perhaps you can use the windows charmap table for the same thing?
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- When accessing projects created with FOLDERS rather than files, and i select a project folder to translate i don't seem to have a BACK button taking me back to the main PROJECT ROOT DIRECTORY (The one showing me all folders containing the TTXs to be translated. Again, is that me doing something wrong or this is something missing?
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I'm not sure I follow this Enrico. You do have the navigation pane on the left so can't you just click on the folder you want to go to?
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- Question: Is there any way to have the MERGE view also for projects created with folders? (It means aggregating the view of all files contained inside different project folders in short). That would help a lot. Is that technically feasible?
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Click on Include Subfolders in the bottom of the navigation pane. Then you'll see all the files in one view from all the folders in the folder you select. So if you then click on the top level here you get all the files in all the folders:
[IMG] [url removed] [/IMG]
Regards
Paul [/quote]
Dear SDL Trados developers,
Having to clear all formatting is quite obviously not ideal. If you had, for instance, text formatted as bold, italic and underlined, and you wanted to remove the underline, you would have to first clear formatting and then add the bold and italic (three steps), instead of simply removing the underline with a button or shortcut key (one step). One forum member suggested displaying tags so we can see where the bold is but, as I said in my reply to her, I am not like the guy in The Matrix who could see redheads in streaming numbers. I need to work with plain text.
There is also another issue, but to explain it I will first describe a typical translation scenario (for me):
A client sends an invitation to tender in PDF and wants to have it translated quickly so they can respond with a proposal. I use OCR software to convert the PDF to Word before working on it in Trados. The original text uses Arial font, and the OCR software converts this correctly but also adds hidden fonts (ex: Calibri) in places like blank spaces or after words in bold. If I Clear Formatting, the text changes to that hidden font. The client will not allow me time to format the text perfectly before starting, but does want things like defined terms in bold, italics and other formatting to be as in the original. I also often need to rearrange sentence structure, which means I need to be able to add and remove text formatting at will and quickly.
In this scenario, it would be best to have complete formatting features as in Word, including the paintbrush feature so I could copy formatting over from the source segment. If the formatting buttons have been removed in SDL Trados 2014 for lack of space, I would suggest removing or hiding the quick insert section, which I never use. Having complete formatting capabilities is absolutely essential.
Topic: SDL Trados 2014 New bugs & shortcomings
Poster: TiagoVanRheenen
Post title: Clear Formatting NOT a "consistent apprach"
[quote]SDL Support wrote:
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- When i select superscript, bold and any other type of formatting related to text changes...those options can be activated but can't be DEACTIVATED. This means that if i activate superscript...the line will keep going in that format forever unless i do tricks. This is the same for bold etc. Is that me doing something wrong or is it a bug? If so...any chance to fix it? IT's very time consuming, for example in formulas or other things that require BOLD, ITALIC etc.
[/quote]
You need to use Clear Formatting. This is a consistent approach for all formatting for any filetype in Studio. It's this button here:
[IMG] [url removed] [/IMG]
You can also use the keyboard shortcuts as you work. So Ctrl+spacebar deactivates. [b]Clear All Formatting [/b]will remove all the tags in the segment.
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- Symbols, special characters (French and Italian accents also capitalized). Is it possible to simply add a table of those i can directly select them rather than ALT+XXX (which on a chinese keyboard also may change things quite a bit as, at least in my case, correspondences are never the standard ones on my PC). Apart from that, remembering every single ALT+ combination is pure madness.
[/quote]
Sounds like a useful enhancement... but perhaps you can use the windows charmap table for the same thing?
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- When accessing projects created with FOLDERS rather than files, and i select a project folder to translate i don't seem to have a BACK button taking me back to the main PROJECT ROOT DIRECTORY (The one showing me all folders containing the TTXs to be translated. Again, is that me doing something wrong or this is something missing?
[/quote]
I'm not sure I follow this Enrico. You do have the navigation pane on the left so can't you just click on the folder you want to go to?
[quote]Enrico C - ECLC wrote:
- Question: Is there any way to have the MERGE view also for projects created with folders? (It means aggregating the view of all files contained inside different project folders in short). That would help a lot. Is that technically feasible?
[/quote]
Click on Include Subfolders in the bottom of the navigation pane. Then you'll see all the files in one view from all the folders in the folder you select. So if you then click on the top level here you get all the files in all the folders:
[IMG] [url removed] [/IMG]
Regards
Paul [/quote]
Dear SDL Trados developers,
Having to clear all formatting is quite obviously not ideal. If you had, for instance, text formatted as bold, italic and underlined, and you wanted to remove the underline, you would have to first clear formatting and then add the bold and italic (three steps), instead of simply removing the underline with a button or shortcut key (one step). One forum member suggested displaying tags so we can see where the bold is but, as I said in my reply to her, I am not like the guy in The Matrix who could see redheads in streaming numbers. I need to work with plain text.
There is also another issue, but to explain it I will first describe a typical translation scenario (for me):
A client sends an invitation to tender in PDF and wants to have it translated quickly so they can respond with a proposal. I use OCR software to convert the PDF to Word before working on it in Trados. The original text uses Arial font, and the OCR software converts this correctly but also adds hidden fonts (ex: Calibri) in places like blank spaces or after words in bold. If I Clear Formatting, the text changes to that hidden font. The client will not allow me time to format the text perfectly before starting, but does want things like defined terms in bold, italics and other formatting to be as in the original. I also often need to rearrange sentence structure, which means I need to be able to add and remove text formatting at will and quickly.
In this scenario, it would be best to have complete formatting features as in Word, including the paintbrush feature so I could copy formatting over from the source segment. If the formatting buttons have been removed in SDL Trados 2014 for lack of space, I would suggest removing or hiding the quick insert section, which I never use. Having complete formatting capabilities is absolutely essential.