Specify how SDL Trados Studio extracts and displays text from the documents processed with the Comma Delimited Text file type, Tab Delimited Text file type, or any new Simple Delimited Text file type that you create.
Studio uses Simple Delimited Text file types to process text documents in which the text is divided into columns separated by special characters. Each line contains source text in one column and the corresponding translation in another column. Examples of such documents are *.csv files processed with the Comma Delimited Text file type or *.txt files processed with the Tab Delimited Text file type.
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Studio only applies simple delimited file types to documents where at least 40% of the lines contain the delimiter character that you specify on the Format page. |
Configure your Simple Delimiter Text file type on the Format page. To display the Format page:
Expand the Comma Delimited Text, Tab Delimited Text or any new Simple Delimited Text file type.
Delimiter
| Tab, Comma |
Specify if the columns in your document are separated by a comma or a tab. Make sure that at least 40% of the lines in the document use a tab or a comma as a column delimiter. |
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| Other |
Specify which custom character is used to separate the columns in your document. Make sure that the custom delimiter character you choose does not exist in the source or in the target columns and that the character is used as a delimiter in more than 40% of the lines in the document. |
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| Source Column |
Specify the number of columns which contain source text. If you give the same number of source and target columns, the source text is overwritten. |
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| Translation Column |
Specify the number of columns which contain target text. If you give the same number of source and target columns, the source text is overwritten.
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| Extract comments as structure information |
Select this to convert any available comments into document structure information. |
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| Comment column |
Specify which column contains comments that Studio should extract as structure information. |
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| Exclude lines without comments |
When this option is enabled, Studio extracts for translation only those lines of text for which a comment is available in the column that you specified for the Comment column option. |
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Exclude
| Lines without delimiter |
When enabled, Studio extracts for translation only those lines of text that contain the delimiter character specified on the Delimiter section. This option is selected by default. |
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First line is column headings |
When enabled, Studio does not extract for translation the first line of text in the document. |
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Existing translations
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Make existing translations confirmed |
When enabled, Studio sets each extracted source and target segment to Confirmed.
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Lock existing translations |
When enabled, Studio locks each extracted source and target segment. Locked segments cannot be translated in the Editor view.
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Process
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Files not matching formatting requirement |
When enabled, Studio can process files with many empty lines or with lines that contain only a delimiter.
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