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Thin line between segments in Trados Studio

Dear Trados Support Staff,

I work with Trados Studio 2017.

Is that possible for you to give an option for me to have a border line between segments? Please see the red line in the image below.

Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing text segments with a red line border between them as requested by the user.

The reason is that when translating I prefer to have white background color for all segments so that I can easily detect any typos with that red underline. Besides, white background is easy in the eyes too if you work all day. Non-white backgrounds make the text more difficult to read, particularly when you reach a certain age, so one has to set the background shading to close to imperceptible. But then it becomes difficult to distinguish one segment from another. A thin line between the segments would be much better as in MemoQ and Memsource, or SDLX. Please see the image below.

Screenshot of Trados Studio interface with white background for text segments and a visible red underline for typos, as preferred by the user.

Also, it would be nice to be able to change the color and thickness of the cursor because, with such white segment background, it would be difficult to easily find the cursor.

Could you introduce these features in your next update?

Verdi

  • Sorry, Thomas,

    I had read this as a question post rather than an idea which is why I wrote my post. Then after I'd hit enter, I realised my mistake.

    However, I thought I'd leave my post there because while waiting for this idea to be put into action with a future update, it might help if you could change the background/colours to improve visibility. I was in a rush so didn't change my post accordingly to explain this... I guess I also thought that just maybe the app would provide this possibility. I've never tried it.

    I have voted for the idea ;-)

    All the best,

    Ali :)

  • Alison, I don't understand how your comments address the issue.

    "Choosing the light or dark gray colour scheme from the View tab helps eliminate the whiteness."

    We don't want to eliminate whiteness. We want white background, and lines separating the segments instead of shaded backgrounds.

    "However, there is a tool that you can download to achieve various looks in Studio:"

    The description talks about colour themes, but not lines separating the segments.

    The request is to get lines between the segments. We can always remove the segment shading under settings.

  • Hi there,

    Choosing the light or dark gray colour scheme from the View tab helps eliminate the whiteness.

    However, there is a tool that you can download to achieve various looks in Studio:

    appstore.sdl.com/.../

    I haven't used it because I am happy with the light gray but others have spoke well of it.

    You'll need to sig in but it is free to download!

    All the best,

    Alison :)

  • Totally agree. I have been trying to find the same feature. Non-white backgrounds make the text more difficult to read, particularly when you reach a certain age, so I have set the background shading to close to imperceptible. But then it becomes difficult to distinguish one segment from another.

    A thin line between the segments would be much better. As in MemoQ and Memsource.

    Also, it would be nice to be able to move the status column from the middle to the right (or perhaps the left). It should not be the centre of attention between the source and target columns.