The "Reviewed Target File Update (Retrofit)" function should use segmentation rules defined in the first TM of the project instead of standard segmentation rules.

When using custom segmentation rules, the use of the "Update from reviewed target file (Retrofit)" functionality is limited because the target file is imported with the standard set of segmentation rules, so source and target segments don't match.

This would be solved if the import of the target file would follow the rules set in the first TM of the project - it would give the user the opportunity to define corresponding segmentation rules.

Paul Filkin writes: [In case of a retrofit...] "[t]he original target is already segmented and I believe this is taken from the SDLXLIFF; but the updated target file is segmented based on default target language rules and not the custom rules I have in my translation memory.  So the segmentation choices for Retrofit are not the same as those used for Alignment."

In his conclusion he states: "So the news for Retrofit isn’t great if you’re using custom segmentation rules in your TM.  If you’re using the defaults it’s a great feature, but the solution for updating your TM if you used custom segmentation rules and had a lot of changes is to do the retrofit more manually and align the original source (or preferably an updated one) with your updated target file making sure you apply the custom rules for segmentation to the source and target language.  I’ve no doubt there will be a fix to improve this in the future but until then forewarned is forearmed!" (Emphases are mine, DH)

Thank you for considering this request.

Daniel