Rudi Warttmann

Would it be a help to define it on a Story basis? (Translate this story, but not that?)

Daniel

That's a really good point. In some scenarios - like the one I'm doing my investigations at the moment - it would in fact be sufficient.

In InDesign, I could tag a story with a story label - OK, not in the UI, but only by scripting - which could even turn out to be an advantage. Trados would then need to be able to assess this story label and so make the distinction.

Thanks!

Rudi

Rudi Warttmann

Or you could simply use the ICML file type, export selected stories to ICML, then only translate those. You can even have an almost-live-preview if you relink the ICML files with the icml files in the Studio target language folder. I work a lot with ICMLs for translation, especially in documents where only some parts need translating (e.g. catalogue pages with only some text fields updated). I find it very smooth and powerful. Officially, Studio supports ICMLs from CC2018, which feels ancient by now, but in practice I have not come across any incompatibilities recently.

I like the idea of story labels. How would you do that in InDesign? If you upload a text file, I can try to make it work on the Studio side of things.

Daniel

If the cursor is blinking within a story, you could use a script like:

app.selection[0].parentStory.label = "myLabel";

In the IDML, the story would then be flagged as shown in the screenshot.

To assign the internal (unique) story id to each story of the currently active document, you could use:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
for (i = 0; i < doc.stories.length; i++)

{

   doc.stories.item(i).label = doc.stories.item(i).id;

}

Rudi

One addendum. From the administrator's point of view, a story label is much more robust than conditional text. First, users can't see change story labels in the UI and change/remove them inadvertently. Second, users (people using InDesign) are not confused by any kind of text flagging like a line or wave underneath. Third, conditional text needs to be hidden prior to sending the IDML to SDL. Fourth, I can apply story labels by scripting at any time in the publishing process or even already in the InDesign templates.

Hence, for all projects where we can translate on a story basis, this would be extremely helpful.

One addendum. From the administrator's point of view, a story label is much more robust than conditional text. First, users can't see change story labels in the UI and change/remove them inadvertently. Second, users (people using InDesign) are not confused by any kind of text flagging like a line or wave underneath. Third, conditional text needs to be hidden prior to sending the IDML to SDL. Fourth, I can apply story labels by scripting at any time in the publishing process or even already in the InDesign templates.

Hence, for all projects where we can translate on a story basis, this would be extremely helpful.