Reynir Gunnlaugsson

Might be that the all caps is not due to all characters being uppercase, but through the font style? Since the font used in the editor (your screenshot) is obviously not identical with the font used in the document...

Can you try entering some translation and exporting the target document, just to have a look whether it's back to all caps there?

DAniel

Daniel Hug

We have indeed done so on several occasions and the translation comes out in the same manner as the source text. The problem seems to lie in the creation phase of the project, where a perfectly valid document with its first line in uppercase is converted (miraculously) into ,,proper" text. Maybe this has something to do with the "Correct TWo INitial CApitals" setting in the editor menu ?

Reynir Gunnlaugsson

The "Correct two initial capitals" setting affects only the text entry in the target window, it works like a macro, you can see it work if you enter "HEllo", as soon as you enter the space after the word it will change it to "Hello". That's all.

May I ask what format the source document has?

DAniel

It is a Microsoft Word .docx document with TimesNewRoman font, size 9

It is a Microsoft Word .docx document with TimesNewRoman font, size 9

For me it seems like the paragraph style in Word is applied, while in Studio this is simply not shown. Please check the style applied to this very paragraph in Word—I strongly assume "Capitalize" is selected there in the font attributes.

It says "Main Title" in the Styles section ?

Then again the said "Main Title" does not contain the All Caps definition for some reason ?

Jerzy Czopik and Reynir Gunnlaugsson

The interesting question is why the style is not preserved in the target document, the text not re-injected into the style tags?

The styles would be usually preserved. What can happen is, that the template used for this Word file is not present where Word is being processed and thus the changes appear. Without seeing the file I cannot tell you more.

Would it be possible to leave the paragraph in question and few following paragraphs (you can replace text with anything, preferably with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum) and upload the file here? This would make the sherlocking investigations for Watsons here easier.

Sorry Jerzy, lost you there, I have no idea how to upload the file. Could you give me directions for how to do that ?

Use insert—image or video—upload

Here is a little test that I made, where all is portrayed correctly. The culprit is probably the Style that the formatting provider is using?

Reynir Gunnlaugsson

In your document the caps lock effect is achieved by applying the "caps lock" attribute manually (clicking "Font" and then "Caps lock" in Word).

Trados correctly imports the respective tags:

And when I export the target document, it looks like this:

The only problem comes up if I ask Trados to display formatting, but not to display formatting tags:

Nota bene that there is also a setting to not report missing formatting tags.

Make sure you have that unchecked, so that Trados warns you if there is an issue with formatting tags.

My guess is that these are your settings. (Same thing happened to me before!)

Let me know if making formatting tags visible solves the problem (in the "View" tab):

Daniel