How to filter highlighted text. Translating color-coded documents.

Some of my clients send me color-coded files for translation. I can understand that these translations are for websites and the aim is to signify the type of text + NOT pay for repetitions. The problem for me is that I can't charge for repetitions or their repetitive notes. However, I do not know how to filter out the text based on highlights. I would like to filter it out at the start of the project, copy source to target, and lock these sections. The Community Advanced Display filter allow text to be filtered by color, but not based on highlight color as much as I understand. I also tried to display all tags and filter "highlight=cyan", but the problem is that only a small part of the highlighted text is filtered as tags are only displayed when there are different text styles in one segment.

Any ides how I can work with such projects more efficiently? I can't be the only translator receiving these files...

 

The instructions can be something like this:

DO NOT TRANSLATE:

RED TEXT (Link to gallery)

YELLOW highlight TEXT Hero Carousel x3

Text, marked in blue like this: Asset: X745460_20MIY__Desktop_v2_1600x900.jpg

 

TRANSLATE:

All black text: TITLE: X – car type – Buy now (country)

BLUE text like this: EXPLORE EXTERIOR

 Green text like this: Offer

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  • Hello  

    I assume you receive color coded text in Word format (docx). The newer versions of Word can search for styles and formatting (Advanced Find), which might be a help, but it's not the route I would take.

    I would tell the customer that this is not a conventient way to deliver source text, but I'll make it work this one time. (In future, they should define a Word style for translatable text, because Studio can filter by style.)

    Then I would export the document to HTML and filter by styles. (Custom file type HTML 5, then copy the "span" item in "parser" as many times as I need to exclude styles, then define the styles to be excluded.) If I define background yellow and aqua as well as color:red as not translatable, I get this preview:

    Trados Studio preview window showing color-coded HTML filtering, with yellow and aqua backgrounds and red text marked as non-translatable.

    You'll get an HTML file back which you would have to convert to docx using Word.

    Daniel

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  • Hello  

    I assume you receive color coded text in Word format (docx). The newer versions of Word can search for styles and formatting (Advanced Find), which might be a help, but it's not the route I would take.

    I would tell the customer that this is not a conventient way to deliver source text, but I'll make it work this one time. (In future, they should define a Word style for translatable text, because Studio can filter by style.)

    Then I would export the document to HTML and filter by styles. (Custom file type HTML 5, then copy the "span" item in "parser" as many times as I need to exclude styles, then define the styles to be excluded.) If I define background yellow and aqua as well as color:red as not translatable, I get this preview:

    Trados Studio preview window showing color-coded HTML filtering, with yellow and aqua backgrounds and red text marked as non-translatable.

    You'll get an HTML file back which you would have to convert to docx using Word.

    Daniel

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    Generated Image Alt-Text
    [edited by: Trados AI at 4:13 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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