Hi Giuseppe,

Studio does not just do this without a valid reason.  Can you share a file that behaves this way and we can try to explain.

Hi Paul,

thanks.

So is there a logical reason behind this strange behaviour?

I do hope I can find the two lines/segments, the real ones I mean.

In my request here I simply created an example, BUT I remember that the file in which I noticed the strange thing was an HTML file. Can that be one of the possible reasons?

In any case I'll try to find the right position and the right segments to help you understand.

Thanks for now.

Best,

Giuseppe

Hi Paul,

thanks.

So is there a logical reason behind this strange behaviour?

I do hope I can find the two lines/segments, the real ones I mean.

In my request here I simply created an example, BUT I remember that the file in which I noticed the strange thing was an HTML file. Can that be one of the possible reasons?

In any case I'll try to find the right position and the right segments to help you understand.

Thanks for now.

Best,

Giuseppe

Hi Giuseppe,

Well, there is some information missing to help answer this one:

- was this a target html file displayed in a browser?

- was this an export for external review?

- what happens to the source html under the same circumstances?

- what were the elements separating the sentences?

Hi Paul,

thanks.

It was impossible to find the sentence, the HTML source was flooded with tags and I had four different separate files, so now I really can't find the two segments which had this mistake, BUT to make you happier I checked other segments and they all showed no problems.

I.e. after the source text paragraph was split into several segments for the translation, although it was a single short paragraph, the space after each full stop was then correctly inserted when the whole target paragraph was reconstructed again on the target page, with all the HTML tags shown correctly as well.

As far as I remember, yes the first time I saw the target page it was displayed in a browser, then I saved it to my computer as an HTML page to keep it. But I can't tell whether the problem of the missing space was seen on the browser display only or also after having saved the page as an HTML document on my computer.

My guess:

on those two unfortunate segments, which also belonged to a single paragraph, probably the HTML tags somewhere in the sentence were wrongly placed by the customer and hence Studio got confused in some way? It's difficult to use technical jargon, I'm not an IT expert at all as you may have imagined, but this is what I think might have happened.

To tell the truth, when I saw the source text with so many HTML tags I really got terrified as I imagined some mistakes might come out somewhere at the end of my translation. Luckily the only thing I noticed was that space NOT inserted after the full stop in that paragraph.

I'm sorry, I'm aware of the fact that it must be very difficult for you to give an answer, and that the problem must certainly be caused by some tiny mistake somewhere.

Next time it happens, but I do hope it won't again, I'll collect immediately as much information as possible.

Best regards and wishes,

Giuseppe

Thanks Giusseppe, that was considerate of you to come back and elaborate.  Hopefully it won't happen again, but if it does I'm sure we'll be able to explain why.

Have a good Christmas!