Maria Bellini

Maybe you can provide some proper example segments to cover a range of scenarios you are faced with?  We're not so good at guessing what the text might be ;-)

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Maybe it wasn't clear enough but I need just that. I need to make changes to segments with particular words, but only that word (the word or two words vary). For instance, I need to change a segment containing the word "is", but only that word, so, If I use find and replace I have to go through all "is" instances in the file, which takes forever.

This issue came up because the files I am working on have segmentation issues, so one source word appears as several target words in the TM. 

Hope it's more clear now :)

And on which criteria do you base your need to replace the particular word? What makes these segments different from other segments containing the same word? To be able to filer you need a filtering criteria. Might be bold formatting for example or a special source word, containing or not containing numbers and so on.

I need to change all instances of "El" in the target when they should be "La" and Part obviously is not right there. That is why I need to filter whole segments.

Thanks again,

Hi,

I hope the screen shot clarifies the issue. I need to filter segments containing only one word. Like Part and The below. If I need to correct all instances when "El" appears alone in a segment in the target and it should be "La", I have to go through all segments containing "El" in the file and it takes forever.

This is impossible to do from what I see. A translation of the meaningless English word "the" does not make sense... In such case you would have needed to adapt the segmentation before starting to work on that file.

The segmentation has a purpose and can´t be changed.

I was thinking about a RegEx or wildacard maybe, but again, have no experience.

If this kind of segmentation has a purpose, so try to use the purpose you used for segmenting in the same way for filtering.

Would I be the translator having to deal with this file, I would certainly question this purpose, as I fail to see how much sense it makes to translate words like "the", "have" or the German "der" "die" "das"... All these words have meaning depending on the context, so it is simply impossible to give a proper translation for them...

The client sent the files like that and I am not supposed to change the segmentation.

I don't need to look for or change all "the", just the "The" appearing alone in a segment (like, Part, as in the screenshot).

Thanks,

Maria Bellini

Seems very odd... however you might be able to do something like this:

(^The$)|(^Part$)

Put that into the Advanced Display Filter like this:

Gets me this:

It's difficult when we don't get any real examples clearly explaining what's needed... and it's surely trivial to make some up and provide a file to test with!  I hope this helps anyway.