Adding comma and semicolon to delimiters does not work in Wordfast Classic ناشر الموضوع: Chris Lovelace
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In the Wordfast Classic setup dialogue:
I have changed the "End of segment punctuation" in Wordfast to read as follows:
, : . ! ? ^t ;
When I closed the dialogue box, it asked if I wanted to save to wordfast.ini, which I did.
After rebooting my computer and resuming the translation, segmentation still goes to the next period, and ignores intervening commas and semicolons.
How can I resolve this, or at least get Wordfast to generate... See more In the Wordfast Classic setup dialogue:
I have changed the "End of segment punctuation" in Wordfast to read as follows:
, : . ! ? ^t ;
When I closed the dialogue box, it asked if I wanted to save to wordfast.ini, which I did.
After rebooting my computer and resuming the translation, segmentation still goes to the next period, and ignores intervening commas and semicolons.
How can I resolve this, or at least get Wordfast to generate shorter segments?
PS - I posted this question in an old forum discussion, but decided to re-post here when I got no responses. Not sure if the other thread is dead, so I apologize for the double post if this causes any problems. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Anna Haxen 
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I recently had a text where an entire list appeared in one segment. I solved it by typing periods in the source text after each item on the list and removing them again afterwards. Definitely not the authorized solution, but I was in a hurry, and it worked.
| | | | Chris Lovelace
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بادئ الموضوع | "Shrink/Expand Segment" does not work | Nov 25, 2009 |
The Shrink and Expand Segment buttons and shortcuts do not work for me in Wordfast Classic. I am running Office 2002 on an XP system.
...Perhaps this has something to do with the problem I originally mentioned.
| | | | Chris Lovelace
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بادئ الموضوع | Quick fix sounds good, but my document is too big for that | Nov 25, 2009 |
Anna Haxen wrote:
I recently had a text where an entire list appeared in one segment. I solved it by typing periods in the source text after each item on the list and removing them again afterwards. Definitely not the authorized solution, but I was in a hurry, and it worked.
Sounds like a workable solution, but I don't think that will help. The document I'm doing is very large. Any thoughts on why the Exoand and Shrink don't work?
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| Shrink/expand are erratic | Nov 25, 2009 |
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (2007 & XP). I haven't been able to figure out when or why. Hopefully, one of the experts will be along soon ...
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| I was about to suggest Shrink Segment | Nov 25, 2009 |
Chris,
I was about to suggest that you need to shrink the segment as Wordfast does not automatically segment sentences ending with a semi-colon. However, you did mention that Shrink/Expand do not work. This might be due to another program using the designated shortcuts or the Wordfast version is simply shoddy on your particular PC. I would therefore suggest for you to download a different version, not necessarily a newer one and try it out. The second solution I would suggest is to... See more Chris,
I was about to suggest that you need to shrink the segment as Wordfast does not automatically segment sentences ending with a semi-colon. However, you did mention that Shrink/Expand do not work. This might be due to another program using the designated shortcuts or the Wordfast version is simply shoddy on your particular PC. I would therefore suggest for you to download a different version, not necessarily a newer one and try it out. The second solution I would suggest is to designate keyboard shortcuts for these two functions yourself. I presume that you do know how to do it, so I shall not bore you with the details. But, I'll be here if you do.
Hope I helped.
Cheers.
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| In the source text | Nov 25, 2009 |
I think the problem is not in the semicolon but in the end of paragraph character.
So in the source text, replace ^l by ^p ("soft" end of paragraph character by "hard" end of paragraph character). Then the ; in end of segment punctuation should work.
Hope this helps.
(If your text is coming from Excel, there will be a problem in copying back the text in the Excel column, because both end-of-paragraph signs in Word mean a separation between cells in Excel. Again, the pr... See more I think the problem is not in the semicolon but in the end of paragraph character.
So in the source text, replace ^l by ^p ("soft" end of paragraph character by "hard" end of paragraph character). Then the ; in end of segment punctuation should work.
Hope this helps.
(If your text is coming from Excel, there will be a problem in copying back the text in the Excel column, because both end-of-paragraph signs in Word mean a separation between cells in Excel. Again, the problem is not in Wordfast which does things fine, but Word en Excel are slightly incompatible. So be careful, try this out on a small scale).
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| | | | Chris Lovelace
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بادئ الموضوع | Cell protection had to be disabled | Nov 26, 2009 |
It seemed to make a difference when I disabled cell protection (CTRL+ALT+F12).
However, it may have also made a difference that I replaced all commas with ,^p to create breaks at each comma while not losing the distinction bewteen a comma and a ^p. I later changed this back, and for some reason the document responded better under the segmentation process.
Regarding this response:
NMR wrote:
So in the source text, replace ^l by ^p ("soft" end of paragraph character by "hard" end of paragraph character). Then the ; in end of segment punctuation should work.
Hope this helps.
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When I tried this throughout the whole document, 0 replacements were made.
Incidentally, I also tried working with the document in Wordfast 6.0, where it responded better when I had it set on "TEXT" rather than "TABLE," but gave me the same problems in "TABLE" mode.
Once I went back to Wordfast Classic, I was able to shrink the segments.
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| This is another solution | Nov 26, 2009 |
However, it may have also made a difference that I replaced all commas with ,^p to create breaks at each comma while not losing the distinction bewteen a comma and a ^p. I later changed this back, and for some reason the document responded better under the segmentation process.
Glad you found a solution.
Sometimes you'll have to force line breaks manually in the source document, for instance in lists of instructions or ingredients, when there are dots • between the segments. And sometimes the whole document is one segment!
| | | | Chris Lovelace
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بادئ الموضوع | Thanks... Still open to ideas | Nov 26, 2009 |
Thanks to all who answered. My document seems to be behaving better.
I do think the CTRL+ALT+F12 function makes a difference, since I've had to use it twice more...
I'd still very much appreciate any pointers you can offer, since I'm new to Wordfast, and really want to make it work.
| | | | | Setup > Segments | Nov 26, 2009 |
Chris Lovelace wrote:
In the Wordfast Classic setup dialogue:
I have changed the "End of segment punctuation" in Wordfast to read as follows:
, : . ! ? ^t ;
When I closed the dialogue box, it asked if I wanted to save to wordfast.ini, which I did.
After rebooting my computer and resuming the translation, segmentation still goes to the next period, and ignores intervening commas and semicolons.
How can I resolve this, or at least get Wordfast to generate shorter segments?
Hi Chris,
This is because the text following commas and semicolons usually starts with a small letter. Go to *Setup* (tab) > *Segments* (sub-tab) and check the option: *An ESP + a space + a lower case end a segment*.
HTH,
Yasmin
| | | | Chris Lovelace
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Yasmin Moslem wrote:
This is because the text following commas and semicolons usually starts with a small letter. Go to *Setup* (tab) > *Segments* (sub-tab) and check the option: *An ESP + a space + a lower case end a segment*.
HTH,
Yasmin
Thanks, Yasmin!
I'll give this a shot.
Thank you for your help!
Chris
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