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Saving a target segment without confirming?? | good point!

Michael Beijer — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:25:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Saving a target segment without confirming??
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: good point!

[quote]Milan Condak wrote:

[quote]Michael Joseph Wdowiak Beijer wrote:

Which CAT tool are you guys talking about?

Michael [/quote]

Maybe other tool.

[url removed]

Felix-CAT

06 Assistant Suite - MS Word
07 Open Office Writer
08 DHTML a Tagassist
09 XLIFF Translator
10 Memory Serves

Each tool has own commands, see picture of the bottom of 08

[url removed]

Some agencies use XLIFF Translator.

Milan [/quote]

Saving a target segment without confirming?? | Felix is not olny Assistant Suite fo MS Word

Milan Condak — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:33:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Saving a target segment without confirming??
Poster: Milan Condak
Post title: Felix is not olny Assistant Suite fo MS Word

[quote]Michael Joseph Wdowiak Beijer wrote:

Which CAT tool are you guys talking about?

Michael [/quote]

Maybe other tool.

[url removed]

Felix-CAT

06 Assistant Suite - MS Word
07 Open Office Writer
08 DHTML a Tagassist
09 XLIFF Translator
10 Memory Serves

Each tool has own commands, see picture of the bottom of 08

[url removed]

Some agencies use XLIFF Translator.

Milan

Saving a target segment without confirming?? | Which CAT tool are you guys talking about?

Michael Beijer — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:47:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Saving a target segment without confirming??
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Which CAT tool are you guys talking about?

Which CAT tool are you guys talking about? I am using Felix, which is this one: [url removed] … and I don't recognise the commands you are talking about.

Did you perhaps mean memoQ or SDL Studio?

This is Felix:

Michael

Saving a target segment without confirming?? | ENTER without CTRL

Alexander Somin — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:35:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Saving a target segment without confirming??
Poster: Alexander Somin
Post title: ENTER without CTRL

Please try ENTER without CTRL on the segments you don't wont to confirm.

Saving a target segment without confirming??

Katarzyna Slowikova — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:41:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Saving a target segment without confirming??
Poster: Katarzyna Slowikova

Hello all,

I was told by a PM to copy the source (in some segments) and leave it like this without confirming the segment (so that it doesn't pollute the TM (the text there is in another language and shouldn't have been in the file at all)) and now I'm scratching my head, how to do this... When I copy the source and then just move to the next segment, the previous one appears empty.
So is there actually any way to do what I was requested to do...?

Also another question: it looks like I confirmed by mistake some of those segments which I shouldn't.... is there a way to "unconfirm" a segment?

Will be really grateful for a quick answer.... I'd ask the PM buy they've gone home now.
Thanks in advance,
Kat

Default English "End of Segment Characters" for Felix? | spoke too soon

Michael Beijer — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:13:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Default English "End of Segment Characters" for Felix?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: spoke too soon

Just found them in the Google Group, @ [url removed] #!searchin/felix-users/%22End$20of$20Segment$20Characters%22%7Csort:relevance/felix-users/4-ZqMScRPP8/e-_44qg7X80J

They are: !?.！？。.】。

Default English "End of Segment Characters" for Felix?

Michael Beijer — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:08:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Default English "End of Segment Characters" for Felix?
Poster: Michael Beijer

Hi everyone (hope there are at least a few Felix users reading this),

I seem to have messed up my "End of Segment Characters", which has mysteriously been replaced with a string of (seemingly Dragon-dictated) gibberish. Does anyone here remember the defaults for English?

Regards,

Michael

Installation, editors

Milan Condak — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:31:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Installation, editors
Poster: Milan Condak

I did not test any translation, no TM and no Glo. There are only screenshots for overview of Felix.

Felix-CAT, presentation in Czech

[url removed]

01 Black cat vs. Felix Cat
02 Felix Setup
03 Memory / Glossary (New)/ Vytvoření TMX/Glo
04 Překladová paměť = TM
05 Glosáře
06 Assistant Suite - MS Word
07 Open Office Writer
08 DHTML a Tagassist
09 XLIFF Translator
10 Memory Serves

Milan

How can you quickly compare source and target? | Opening 15 documents isn’t necessarily faster or simpler in Felix, but …

Michael Beijer — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:56:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: Opening 15 documents isn’t necessarily faster or simpler in Felix, but …

[quote]2nl wrote:

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

I open them one by one, like in the good old days ;) [/quote]

Then I must have misunderstood this:

[quote]Also, after finishing a job consisting of 15 separate Word docs in a segment-based CAT tool, who really feels like opening all these files in Word and going through them again manually, to check that everything looks right, and, even more importantly, that the text actually reads well? I don't. Which is why I now recommend using a Word-based CAT tool for many kinds of more flowing text.[/quote]

I thought that this workflow was something that Felix would make simpler. [/quote]

Opening 15 documents isn’t necessarily faster or simpler in Felix, but what I meant in the above quote is this: when translating in a CAT tool, I personally spend most of my time in the CAT tool, and when it is finally time to export my documents, I can hardly ever be bothered to actually open every single one of them (even though this is what is being sent to the client), and go through them to check that everything is OK. I mean, I usually run a spell check (in addition to the spell check already run inside my CAT tool, because MS Word also checks grammar and some other stuff), and maybe have a quick look, but that's about it.

This is different than Felix, where I am actually working in the document that will be sent to my client, so as I go along, I will be fixing and checking and tweaking things, to make the document just right. Therefore, in a project consisting of 15 documents, my client is likely to get a much better finished product (in terms of the formatting of the documents, as well as text cohesion) if I use Felix then if I use a CAT tool such as CafeTran or memoQ.

Of course, the latter have all manner of benefits, which I am well aware of (e.g., tons of repetitions across a large number of smaller documents, the ability to quickly filter (and run complex F&R operations) on a particular term in the source or target column, QA routines, etc.). However, for certain types of documents, they also have very real disadvantages, primarily stemming from a lack of real context, and the disconnect between working in a CAT tool, and the final documents actually sent to your client.

I used to think that absolutely everything could/should be done in a CAT tool, but I have recently changed my mind on this. The beauty of using Felix for certain types of jobs is that I am still able to benefit from the most important aspects of using a CAT tool (TM/TB), but I also get to work in MS Word.

I am therefore currently in the process of experimenting with using Felix for certain types of documents and CafeTran for other types of documents, as well as looking into potentially interesting (synergistic) combinations thereof.

[Edited at 2015-12-01 09:57 GMT]

How can you quickly compare source and target? | I'm just asking

2nl (X) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:25:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: 2nl (X)
Post title: I'm just asking

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

I open them one by one, like in the good old days ;) [/quote]

Then I must have misunderstood this:

[quote]Also, after finishing a job consisting of 15 separate Word docs in a segment-based CAT tool, who really feels like opening all these files in Word and going through them again manually, to check that everything looks right, and, even more importantly, that the text actually reads well? I don't. Which is why I now recommend using a Word-based CAT tool for many kinds of more flowing text.[/quote]

I thought that this workflow was something that Felix would make simpler.

How can you quickly compare source and target? | ha ha

Michael Beijer — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:58:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: ha ha

[quote]2nl wrote:

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

I solve this by creating two copies of my doc: src.doc and trgt.doc, which I then open with the Side by Side feature in MS Word, with Synchronous scrolling activated. [/quote]

That's a nice solution indeed. But how do you handle projects that consist of 15 DOCX files? [/quote]

I open them one by one, like in the good old days ;)

How can you quickly compare source and target? | Nice solution!

2nl (X) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:57:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: 2nl (X)
Post title: Nice solution!

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

I solve this by creating two copies of my doc: src.doc and trgt.doc, which I then open with the Side by Side feature in MS Word, with Synchronous scrolling activated. [/quote]

That's a nice solution indeed. But how do you handle projects that consist of 15 DOCX files?

How can you quickly compare source and target? | MS Word's Side by Side feature, with Synchronous scrolling activated

Michael Beijer — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:54:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: MS Word's Side by Side feature, with Synchronous scrolling activated

[quote]2nl wrote:

I prefer to have Source and Target aligned vertically and to be able to easily check the Source at all times.

I was wondering whether the fact that the source segment in Felix disappears as soon as you start typing, will cause any problems for this coordination of Source and Target.

Is this just something one gets used to? [/quote]

I solve this by creating two copies of my doc: src.doc and trgt.doc, which I then open with the Side by Side feature in MS Word, with Synchronous scrolling activated. No matter where I am in my target document, the source will always be immediately available. And not just a preview (with all the attendant problems this might entail), but the actual real file. No need for any hidden code or uncleaned files.

I sometimes put the two documents side by side on my main screen, and sometimes I put the src.doc on my second screen to the left of my main screen, depending on the types of document I am working on.

I put the Felix TM window on my main screen, above my target document. Oh yeah, and my tlTerm dictionary "Word integration" window for automatic terminology lookups of anything under my caret.

So I now use CafeTran for files warranting a more segmented approach, and Felix + tlTerm for docs with more flowing text (press releases, marketing nonsense and stuff with actual paragraphs, etc., where I want to be able to freely move stuff around).

[Edited at 2015-12-01 08:57 GMT]

How can you quickly compare source and target? | Yes, I can see the big advantage of that

2nl (X) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:53:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: 2nl (X)
Post title: Yes, I can see the big advantage of that

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
It is a selling point of Felix that the file you're working on (the DOC(X) file) is not turned into an uncleaned file, i.e. with lots of codes and the source text hidden in it.
[/quote]

Yes, I can see the big advantage of that. I guess you just cannot have it all then (ease of the eyes and code-free documents).

How can you quickly compare source and target? | I suppose it's the downside of having a non-uncleaned file

Samuel Murray — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:51:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: I suppose it's the downside of having a non-uncleaned file

[quote]2nl wrote:
Is this just something one gets used to? [/quote]

I suppose so. It is a selling point of Felix that the file you're working on (the DOC(X) file) is not turned into an uncleaned file, i.e. with lots of codes and the source text hidden in it.

How can you quickly compare source and target?

2nl (X) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:31:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: How can you quickly compare source and target?
Poster: 2nl (X)

I prefer to have Source and Target aligned vertically and to be able to easily check the Source at all times.

I was wondering whether the fact that the source segment in Felix disappears as soon as you start typing, will cause any problems for this coordination of Source and Target.

Is this just something one gets used to?

Further development of Felix?

2nl (X) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:39:00 +0000

Forum: Felix support
Topic: Further development of Felix?
Poster: 2nl (X)

Now that Felix has become Open Source, what can be said about its future development? Is there already a community of developers active to ensure future usability of this tool?