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Line breaks possible in MultiTerm?

Tanja Hampf

I wonder whether it's possible to insert line breaks in MultiTerm? This would be a great advantage for us as we sometimes have to deal with control panel buttons and indicators where there's very limited space for the texts only and the line breaks need to be in a specific position. 

Example of a button :

DRIVE
MOTOR
OFF

...

Actually I did use soft line breaks (shift + return) at the beginning, but after having to move the termbase contents to another termbase they were all lost. Is there a safer/more permanent way to do it?

Cheers!!
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  • 0 in reply to Tanja Hampf

    Tanja Hampf said:
    So, there's no way I could add new terms (containing line breaks) from Excel to MultiTerm without killing the line breaks or producing duplicates unless I merge the Excel and the termbase contents in the Glossary Converter, correct?   

    Incorrect :-)

    This is probably a process many users are not aware of in this brilliant application, so maybe this will help.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • 0 in reply to Paul

    Thank you for the video, that was really helpful - I think I've got it now. .... But I'm still not sure whether I could use this process for my own purposes?

    I could export my server-based termbase to xml format and open the xml export file in Excel, where I would add all the new terms. So far, so good. But how could I merge the contents from my server-based termbase with the Excel file then?

     By exporting the data from my server-based master termbase to a local termbase first (i. e. making a true local copy of my termbase each time)? That would be quite an effort. And even if I did that, at the end of the merging process I would have a completely new and local termbase ... which would not work in my case.

    In our case, all the data would need to be in my master server-based termbase again at the end of the day unless I want to reconfigure the whole set-up every time, i. e. create the users, define their roles etc.  There will be other users accessing it too, you see?

    Can you think of any alternative maybe?