The Editor displays both the document to be translated and the document translation side by side. The source language document appears on the left and the target language version on the right. The content of both documents is broken down into segments. Only the target language segments can be edited.
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The first column displays segment numbers. Only one number is displayed for each segment pair as the source and target segments are aligned with each other by default. You can choose not to display segment numbers. The source and target segments can also be worked with as two separate lists.
Between the source and target segment columns is the segment status column. This column contains a variety of information about the target language segments. For example, it can indicate the current translation status of the segment.
To the right of the target language segments is the document structure column. It displays a code that tells you where the segment text appears in the source document. Click on the code in this column to display a description telling you where the segment appears in the source document. If you prefer, you can choose not to display the document structure column. For example, if you want to create a larger editing space.
In the final column, the segments numbers are displayed again.
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Document structure is shown in a number of ways:
The document
name tag appears at the start of a document.
Segments are individually numbered.
The document structure column indicates where the segment appeared in the document. For example, TC = table cell and H1 = header 1.
The
document name tag appears when the document contains merged files.
It indicates where one file ends and the next one begins.
You can have more than one document open in the Editor, but only one can be displayed at any time. The currently displayed document is known as the active document.
Each document is displayed in its own window and the document name appears at the top of the window on a tab. To make a document the active document, click the document name tab. Alternatively, select a document in the navigation tree and the selected document becomes the active document.
There are multiple segments displayed at the same time in the Editor window. However, only one of these can be selected at any time and this row is known as the active row. When a row is the active row, a lookup in the translation memory and termbase is automatically performed. You can only edit the target segment for the active row.
To make a row the active row, click in the segment numbers column or the target segment column for that segment in the Editor window.
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If you do not have the Enable implicit row activation option selected, you have to manually activate the row by confirming a previous segment or by selecting Translation > Activate Row from the menu bar. |
You can select an individual row or multiple rows. If you select multiple rows you can merge, split, lock, unlock and change the status of multiple segments. You can select multiple rows and then right-click in the segment number column of the last selected row to select different actions from the shortcut menu. Do one of the following to select multiple rows:
Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the segment number column of each row that you want to select.
Place your cursor in a target segment, hold down the Alt+Shift key and press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to select rows.
Place your cursor in a target segment, hold down the Alt key and press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to move from one segment to the next. When the target segment you want to select is highlighted with a black square, press Space to select the row.
If you have more than one document open, you can navigate them by:
Clicking the document name tabs. The document name tab appears at the top of the document window.
Clicking a document name in the navigation tree.
Clicking the document navigation buttons that appear on the top bar of the Editor window.
These are the document navigation buttons:
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Click the left and right arrow buttons to display each document in turn.
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Click the down arrow button to display a list of all open documents. Select a document from the list to display the document. |
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Click this to close the document. |
To edit a target segment, simply start typing in the target segment box. Click here to find out more about translating in the Editor window.
When you save a document in the Editor window, it is saved as a bilingual SDLXLIFF file. The SDLXLIFF file name comprises:
The name of the document being translated.
The translate from and to languages.
The file extension .SDLXLIFF.
For example, a source document named Sample.doc, being translated from English (US) to German (Germany) would be saved in the Editor window:
Sample.doc_en_us_de_de.SDLXLIFF.
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