Removing AT statuses as you work

Paul over 7 years ago

This one has always been a hot topic and I've been fairly opinionated on this in the past, but today there are so many published ways to do this I thought I'd share a simple way of automating the removal of the AT status as you work:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Clear AT statuses in SDL Trados Studio.
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
^+f::
Send ^a^c!{Ins}^a^v
Return

The script is simple enough, you just press Ctrl+Shift+f and the AT status from a machine translation magically disappears so the active segment appears to be a new translation for you to post-edit. The script just automates the selection of the target, copy the target to the clipboard, overwrite the target with the source which clears the AT status, select the target again and paste back the original machine translation.

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Removing AT statuses as you work This one has always been a hot topic and https://multifarious.filkin.com/2015/11/02/mt-or-not-mt/ on this in the past, but today there are so many published ways to do this I thought I'd share a simple way of automating the removal of the AT status as you work: ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; Clear AT statuses in SDL Trados Studio. ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ^+f:: Send ^a^c!{Ins}^a^v Return The script is simple enough, you just press Ctrl+Shift+f and the AT status from a machine translation magically disappears so the active segment appears to be a new translation for you to post-edit. The script just automates the selection of the target, copy the target to the clipboard, overwrite the target with the source which clears the AT status, select the target again and paste back the original machine translation.
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Lianne van de Ven over 7 years ago

This does not work for me as I was expecting and it is the same as with Nora's script: it changes unedited status to edited but does not clear the AT status to new translation for me. Any idea why?
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Paul over 7 years ago in reply to Lianne van de Ven

Hi Lianne van de Ven ,

Maybe you need a delay in there. Or maybe you have different shortcuts than the ones I use. What happens if you do this?

1. Click in a target segment with the AT status
2. Press Ctrl+A (to select all the text)
3. Press Ctrl+C (to copy the selected text to the clipboard)
4. Press Alt+Ins (to copy source to target)
5. Press Ctrl+A (to select all the text)
6. Press Ctrl+V (to paste the original content back in)

Does that all work with these shortcuts? If it doesn't then replace the appropriate part of the script with the shortcuts you use.

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Paul

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Daniel Ernwein over 7 years ago in reply to Lianne van de Ven

No idea, but try this manually: select content of segment (Ctrl+A, copy (Ctrl+C), delete segment (Alt+Del) - this clears everything, including the AT status, paste (Ctrl+V). If you get the original content, without the AT status, my script should do the same. Otherwise, you may want to check your shortcuts in Studio options? Maybe your shortcut to clear a segment is something else, in which case you can either change it to Alt+Del or update the script to your own shortcut
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Daniel Ernwein over 7 years ago in reply to Paul

I don’t think it needs a delay in here (never experienced issues with the speed), but probably a shortcut issue indeed... We are on the same line!
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Lianne van de Ven over 7 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi Paul,

I suspected that it was in my custom shortcuts but I reverted "alt + ins" instead of "alt + del" to test it and that did not help.
(I always use "clear target" for this manual sequence rather than inserting source, but you added ctrl+A after that, which I don't).
After reverting to defaults, your script now works.

For deleting (or clearing) target segment (alt + del), I have:
ctrl + alt + ; (=ctrl+alt+Oem1)
And for copy source to target (alt + ins):
ctrl + alt + ' (=ctrl+alt+Oem7)
If I want to keep these custom shortcuts, how do I change your script? I am new to AHK and haven't looked into the scripts.

Thanks.
Lianne
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Pengfei Niu over 7 years ago

Hi Paul,

I have a question about the scripts. Can we combine all scripts in one script? If so, I only need to enable one each time instead of running them one by one. If this is not possible, can we set the scripts to automaticlly run when the PC starts? Many thanks.

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Ivan
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Paul over 7 years ago in reply to Pengfei Niu

Hi Pengfei Niu ,

Yes. Just put them all into one ahk file, one after the other. If this file is loaded when your computer starts they will already all be available without having to do anything.

It would probably be worth taking a little time to read the beginner tutorials in the AHK site, they are very good and will take the mystique out of this.

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Nora Díaz over 7 years ago in reply to Pengfei Niu

Unknown said:
Hi Paul,

I have a question about the scripts. Can we combine all scripts in one script? If so, I only need to enable one each time instead of running them one by one. If this is not possible, can we set the scripts to automaticlly run when the PC starts? Many thanks.

Regards,
Ivan

Hi Ivan,

Not Paul, but I thought I'd chime in. : )

Yes, you can combine them all into one file. That's what I do, I have a file called "Studio scripts" and they're all in there. All you need to do is copy them one after another. Whenever I write or find a new script, I simply add it to the file.
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Nora Díaz over 7 years ago in reply to Lianne van de Ven

Unknown said:
Hi Paul,

I suspected that it was in my custom shortcuts but I reverted "alt + ins" instead of "alt + del" to test it and that did not help.
(I always use "clear target" for this manual sequence rather than inserting source, but you added ctrl+A after that, which I don't).
After reverting to defaults, your script now works.

For deleting (or clearing) target segment (alt + del), I have:
ctrl + alt + ; (=ctrl+alt+Oem1)
And for copy source to target (alt + ins):
ctrl + alt + ' (=ctrl+alt+Oem7)
If I want to keep these custom shortcuts, how do I change your script? I am new to AHK and haven't looked into the scripts.

Thanks.
Lianne

Hi Lianne,

In AHK, ctrl + alt + ; is ^!;, so you would need the appropriate line to read:

Send ^!;

For ctrl + alt +', use:

Send ^!'
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Pengfei Niu over 7 years ago in reply to Nora Díaz

Thanks. Nora.
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