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Processing Index Tokens from Framemaker files

Alaina Brantner

Hello all,
I'm processing a Framemaker manual with an index and tokens throughout the body copy linking back to the index. We've worked with a similar manual in the past, and had each of the tokens in the body copy translated and then had to manually verify that each was translated consistently so that we would not get any added duplicate entries in the target index once re-generated. This added time to our review stage to manually check each of the tokens, and numbers to our word counts.

Are there any filters available in Trados that would allow for index tokens in inline copy to be excluded from the word count? Or extracted? Any other solutions for processing tokens efficiently?

We tried exporting from Framemaker to XML to see if there’s a way we could isolate tokens in the format, but from what I’m hearing from the DTP team, the exported XML file would be something the client would use to publish the content online, and I don’t see any of the tokens displayed in the XML version of the controls file. Sounds like we may not even be able to import that file back into Frame.
Thank you!
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    Hi Alaina,

    I'm not sure what you're after to be honest, but could you filter on the Index Entries using the Advanced Display Filter, and then just lock them for translation?  You can then exclude locked segments from the analysis and filter on unlocked during translation:

     

    If this is what you're after but need to do this across hundreds of files in a Project then you could also do this using the SDLXLIFF Toolkit and prepare all the files before you even open them for Translation.

    Regards

    Paul

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    Hi Paul,

    Thank you for showing the advanced filter display. Once the markers have been filtered using the advanced display filter you showed, is there a way to sort them alphabetically? Since I'm new to Trados, I'm trying to figure out what the program can do.

    So, I have an index file auto-generated from the index markers throughout a manual. The last time we did the project, the single index markers in the manual content were unfortunately translated inconsistently by the translator at times, which would've resulted in a target index auto-generated with more entries than the source (and in a new alphabetical order, making clean ever more difficult). I suppose the QA verification should have flagged any inconsistent translations of index markers. For the last project, I went through and manually verified the markers to make sure they were consistent during my QA review, which was fairly time consuming.

    For future reference, I'm wondering if there's a way to filter these index markers into their own separate XLIFF file?

    We'd like to cut index markers from the word count, by translating the actual index file itself (so that we can translate only 1 instance of each marker) and then perhaps apply a memory of that file to the index markers found throughout the manual. I'm going to test it out on my end to see if I get clean 100% matches, since we have about 30-40 files we'd need to process.

    Thanks very much for the guidance -- I'm excited to learn Trados!

    Best,
    Alaina
  • 0 in reply to Alaina Brantner
    You can only filter, not sort. But you can use the SDLXLIFF Toolkit from the SDL Appstore to export these entries to a separate SDLXLIFF.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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