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WFP5 bilingual review import loses spaces between tags
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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Sep 5, 2019

Hello everyone

When I use bilingual review in WFP5, and I import a file in which the source text ends on two tags with a space between them, and the target text too, then the imported TXLF file has no space between the tags in the target text. This happens consistently. Is there a workaround for that?

My DOC file definitely contains e.g. "Wat maak die liggaam met die studiemedisyne?‭[g1] ‭[/g1]", but the TXLF then ends up having "Wat maak die liggaam met die studi... See more
Hello everyone

When I use bilingual review in WFP5, and I import a file in which the source text ends on two tags with a space between them, and the target text too, then the imported TXLF file has no space between the tags in the target text. This happens consistently. Is there a workaround for that?

My DOC file definitely contains e.g. "Wat maak die liggaam met die studiemedisyne?‭[g1] ‭[/g1]", but the TXLF then ends up having "Wat maak die liggaam met die studiemedisyne?‭{tag}{tag}". This means that my final file often has sentences with no space between the sentences.

It not only happens at the ends of segments -- in many places where there is a space between tags, the space is lost when importing the bilingual review file back into TXLF. And if those two tags are on either side of a space between words, then those two words become one word in the final file...

The only way I know of to fix this is to open the TXLF file in WFP5, run a TransCheck, and fix the tag spacing manually. But that's just silly -- the DOC file is error-free, so the TXLF should be too.

Has anyone noticed this problem as well?

adult segment 185 in DOC

adult segment 185 after import (report)

adult segment 185 after import (TXLF)

Anyway, in the mean time, the solution is to use a dummy character string in the DOC files, e.g. "Wat maak die liggaam met die studiemedisyne?‭[g1]###[/g1]" and then change them to spaces by editing the TXLF file in a plain text editor.

Samuel

[Edited at 2019-09-06 12:25 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 


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