Simon Bratina

I wonder if you're misreading this?  Your question was:

Simon Bratina said:

I was trying to enter the comments into the source segment and wasn't able to do it. 

You then shared this:

Simon Bratina said:

If you have comments in the original source file, they are displayed in the source segments when you open a file for translation, by default. However these comments cannot be amended and new comments cannot be made to source segments.

Note the last part.  These comments cannot be amended and new comments cannot be made to source segments.  This was never possible and still isn't.  The feature is the same in the newer filetype.  So I can do thi for example because the comment was already in Word:

But I can't add more.  No real change since this article in 2015...

https://multifarious.filkin.com/2015/04/26/chapterverse/

Hi Paul, 

Indeed it seems I was misreading this part on comments and "didn't see" the explicit reference you highlighted. 

 The reason is that I have a case where customer works with several revisors and editors who would most of the time enter comments and revisions in the target segment, but they have cases where there is a feedback related to a source word or part of source segment and they need a simple way to annotate/comment  that.

Hence, me misreading the "source comments" more in the light of my needs as in the context of "comments already present in the source document" prior to processing it in Studio. 

Client has been using Trados 2007 unitl recently and all thier processes and workflows benefit the flexibility of bilingual Trados Workbench documents.

I appreciate that allowing users to add new comments to the source segments could cause all sorts of issues and is therefore not supported. 

And yes, it's been a while since I really looked into the comments as much as I'm now, so thank you for the reply and clear&understandable reply. 

I glimpsed over your article from 2015 and I, obviously, need to refresh my knowledge.

Thank you. 

Hi Paul, 
I'd just like to check if my mind is playing with me... 

I'm not sure with which version, could be some beta version, but i kind of remember that  I was able to mark comments in the source segment.  
I also believe there was an issue with generating target file of such commented sdlxliff.

That's why I was convinced that entering comments in the source segments would also be technically possible, but for some reason in not implemented.

Thank you

Simon Bratina

I either don't recall this, or this has never been possible. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Even if it was possible we definitely would not support doing anything with the comments in the target file Why would we when the comments related to the source?

Hi Paul,

I have a case where customer (GOV) would apparecchiate to have the option of adding  comments into the parts of source text -> allowing translators and/or reviewers to clearly mark what would be the issue in the source.
Most common reasons would be:

-clarifying or expressing the doubt about the source term used.
-adding an internal clarification (description) for the reviewers on the source term or "word construct"
- pointing out the error in the source text that is critically misleading for the translation and review and that require to be communicated to source content author for later correction and implementation 
- ... and others (can ask them to help me collect the full list).

As I said above, I can understand that having comments in the source text just adds to the complexity of handling SDLXLIFF. 

Until I'll have a more complete list of why one would need comments on the source text  .... 

Thank you, Paul,  and best regards

Simon Bratina

I suggest you log this as an idea:

http://ideas.sdl.com