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Is there a way of disregarding formatting?
Thread poster: Comunican
Comunican
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Jun 29, 2020

Does anyone know, please, if there is a way of disregarding formatting when a TU is stored in the TM?

I'm currently working on a set of documents that I have chained together and there are translation units that are exactly the same except for the formatting.

However, it seems that two otherwise identical TUs are stored as two separate TUs, which means that if I make a change to one TU, press Alt-Down/Alt-Up, the other does not get automatically changed and I have to g... See more
Does anyone know, please, if there is a way of disregarding formatting when a TU is stored in the TM?

I'm currently working on a set of documents that I have chained together and there are translation units that are exactly the same except for the formatting.

However, it seems that two otherwise identical TUs are stored as two separate TUs, which means that if I make a change to one TU, press Alt-Down/Alt-Up, the other does not get automatically changed and I have to go searching for it and change it separately.

Many thanks for any advice. ▲ Collapse
 
Samuel Murray
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TransCheck Jun 29, 2020

Comunican wrote:
Is a way of disregarding formatting when a TU is stored in the TM?


I know of no way, so the workaround for your problem would be to run a TransCheck on the file(s) and look for consistency errors. In my experience, TransCheck ignores formatting tags when comparing segments.


[Edited at 2020-06-29 19:28 GMT]
 
Jean Lachaud
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In Preferences | New Project Preferences Jun 29, 2020

Try checking: Do not add to TM

See a screen shot here: https://www.screencast.com/t/cCsZhpiIrKa (I can't find how to upload a picture here).



[Edited at 2020-06-29 16:44 GMT]
 
Comunican
Comunican
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Local time: 16:56
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Thank you, Samuel Jun 30, 2020

Samuel Murray wrote:

Comunican wrote:
Is a way of disregarding formatting when a TU is stored in the TM?


I know of no way, so the workaround for your problem would be to run a TransCheck on the file(s) and look for consistency errors. In my experience, TransCheck ignores formatting tags when comparing segments.


[Edited at 2020-06-29 19:28 GMT]


 


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