Studio 2011: First Cap placeables Thread poster: John Fossey
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John Fossey 
Canada
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This might have been asked before but I couldn't find it. Is there any setting so that words that start with a capital (and therefore are frequently an untranslateable proper noun) are included with the list of placeables in a segment, to avoid having to constantly retype them?
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
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Spanish to English
| I don't think so... | Jul 31, 2012 |
... but you can use Autotext to create a list of proper names. This would apply to all your projects and would be offered in the Autosuggest list. To add words, go to Tools>Options>autosuggest>autotext
Or you could define variables that work as placeables for individual TMs in the Language Resources in Translation Memory Settings (Variable List).
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John Fossey
Canada
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TOPIC STARTER | Autotext doesn't help | Jul 31, 2012 |
Emma Goldsmith wrote:
... but you can use Autotext to create a list of proper names.
I'm aware of that, but in documents that list a lot of proper names that each only appear once or twice, Autotext doesn't help. It's a feature of Wordfast that I miss in Studio.
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Claire Cox
United Kingdom
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John Fossey wrote:
I'm aware of that, but in documents that list a lot of proper names that each only appear once or twice, Autotext doesn't help. It's a feature of Wordfast that I miss in Studio.
Me too, John; I only use Studio for a couple of clients, but this is one simple thing from Wordfast that I really miss. I end up copying the whole of the source text and working round the placeables, but you would have thought there was an easier way....
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Hello John,
To avoid typing some words, I am putting them in the termbase. Which means that when I type its first character -- it will autotype it for me. So if you put John Fossey and John Fossey as its translation. When you type a capital J -- it will autotype John Fossey for you.
Service Pack 2 has the feature of using both capitals and lower case (it is an option!). (though it is a bit buggy -- or I do not have the setting right)
Hope this helps.
... See more Hello John,
To avoid typing some words, I am putting them in the termbase. Which means that when I type its first character -- it will autotype it for me. So if you put John Fossey and John Fossey as its translation. When you type a capital J -- it will autotype John Fossey for you.
Service Pack 2 has the feature of using both capitals and lower case (it is an option!). (though it is a bit buggy -- or I do not have the setting right)
Hope this helps.
Guru (someone who is having fun working on his first project on Studio 2011) ▲ Collapse
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| You can use TermInjector 2.0 for this | Aug 31, 2012 |
You can simulate this sort of functionality with TermInjector 2.0. Here's an example:
TermInjector can construct translation suggestions for new segments and supports regular expression replacement rules. This means you can specify that all words that start with a lowercase letter or are at the beginning of a segment are omitted from the translation suggestion. Unfo... See more You can simulate this sort of functionality with TermInjector 2.0. Here's an example:
TermInjector can construct translation suggestions for new segments and supports regular expression replacement rules. This means you can specify that all words that start with a lowercase letter or are at the beginning of a segment are omitted from the translation suggestion. Unfortunately some extra spaces and punctuation will be left in the proposal.
In the example I've used rules that turn every string matching regular expressions ^[A-Za-z]+ or [a-z ]+ into empty strings in the constructed translation proposal.
You can download TermInjector from Open Exchange.
It would be a simple thing to do a specific plugin just for this functionality, I might look into it if there's another Open Exchange competition. ▲ Collapse
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Mark Bossanyi
Bulgaria
Local time: 16:16
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| Two years and a new version of Studio later, still no solution from SDL? | Nov 3, 2014 |
I reluctantly started using Trados Studio 2014 in response to the fact that many of my clients are hooked on it. Trados has a large number of features, but also a large number of shortcomings that are inexcusable for a market leader. Its inability to treat capitalised words as placeables is one such example and to my knowledge this has still not been addressed. TermInjector is a valiant attempt to address this problem but is far from user friendly. In contrast, Wordfast provides this feature out... See more I reluctantly started using Trados Studio 2014 in response to the fact that many of my clients are hooked on it. Trados has a large number of features, but also a large number of shortcomings that are inexcusable for a market leader. Its inability to treat capitalised words as placeables is one such example and to my knowledge this has still not been addressed. TermInjector is a valiant attempt to address this problem but is far from user friendly. In contrast, Wordfast provides this feature out-of-the box and it is a breeze to use. Does anyone know whether SDL intends to do anything about this? ▲ Collapse
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Lianne van de Ven
United States
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I miss this too. I translate plenty of proper nouns because there is a localized version for it, but I still typically put the original/source in parenthesis.
Capitalized and first cap words should be Recognized Tokens.
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
Local time: 15:16
Member (2004)
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Lianne van de Ven
United States
Local time: 09:16
Member (2008)
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| Thanks, Emma | Feb 15, 2015 |
This worked. I looked at Regex AutoSuggest from another post somewhere, if I remember well, without being able to understand much of it. The link to Paul's video explains how to use it and it does what I was looking for.
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