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Is it possible to apply "Do Not Translate" style to an .idml file?i

Veronika Orazalinova

Dear members of community,

I have a following problem: I need to import an .idml file for translation so that certain segments are ignored and are not visible in editor. These segments are part numbers and consist either of just numbers ( like 4892760) or a combination of capitalized letters and numbers (like 827JUNM89). So these part numbers have a special character or paragraph format in InDesign. Is there a way to change the file type settings in a way, so that Trados jsut ignores this particular character/paragraph format? I know that this works for .mif files. You can tell Trados to ignore a certain format and not translate it.

Thank you in advance! I am lloking forward to your ideas and thoughts on this!

 
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  • 0 in reply to Veronika Orazalinova
    Hi ,

    Why did you give up with the regex? If you have segments containing only these as single codes, so like this for example:

    #1: 9475690-372169
    #2: MP59478HF98
    #3: 89POG89

    Then this would work:

    ^[A-Z0-9-]+$

    And I guess you could extend this easily enough to catch other examples by adding any additional characters you find between the [] if they are not picked up with this one.

    It would help to see some examples of your real segments if they don't look like this. You could make up a file that didn't contain sensitive information and then we could ensure you get the right help. Any solution we give you is going to be better if we can see what you are looking at, but based on what you have shared so far I still think the display filter is your best bet.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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