Due to essential maintenance, access to Trados cloud will be unavailable on Saturday 30 August from 00:00 to 12:00 UTC.
  • State Suggested Answer
  • Replies 10 replies
  • Answers 1 answer
  • Subscribers 435 subscribers
  • Views 4826 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related

Long-standing Ideas

Michael Friedli

Hello all

I was wondering if the ideas.sdltrados.com is still active, there are a couple of long-standing ideas which have received massive support but don't seem to be going anywhere:

1. Merging across a paragraph break (or carriage return for those who are still in typewriter mode and contribute to the problem): there are 6 different versions of this, one submitted by Paul Filkin no less:

"Ability to Merge Paragraph Segments" as well as "Joining Segments Separated by Paragraph Break" by Fiona Paterson "Allow HR in Expand Segment" by Gary Daine "Allow Merging Segments over Paragraph Breaks" by Horst-Helge Liefers "Segment merging" by Claudine Lavallée"...

2. My own "Source to target drag and drop" which I reposted a few days ago, since it was claimed to have been implemented by SDL but clearly has not.
Rate translation
×
Suggest better translation
×
Moderator UI
×
  • Get AI Suggestion
Parents
  • 0
    Hi Michael,
    I think your request of the possibility to Merge across a paragraph break and the possibility to work in a vertical way with the source on top and target on the bottom instead of side-by-side have been two long lasting requests that version after version customers are disappointed that still are not available in SDL Trados Studio. The possibility to work vertically instead of side-by-side would facilitate a lot the process of revision and when working on highly fuzzy texts as your eyes naturally would see the source and target on top of the other at the same time instead of having to move your eyes from side to side. If the source is on top and the target right under you can see much faster inconsistencies when revising and exactly what needs to change in fuzzy segments. So much so that many other CAT tools already have this implemented as well as your suggestion of Merge across a paragraph breaks. It would seem like this alternative viewing format would be easy to implement, but unfortunately we still don't have it! :(

    Maybe we can hope that these are implemented in a Service Pack? :P
  • 0 in reply to Jonathan Fray

    Hi Michael, hi Jonathan,

    I prefer the side-by-side layout, actually...

    Neither of the 'precursors' to Studio was top-and-bottom, neither TagEditor nor SDLX, so users who like me grew from those two might also prefer the side-by-side GUI. I like to see each phrase within context, to retain the Source and Target texts' individual perspectives. That may be because I'm principally a reviewer these days.

    I wonder what proportion of users prefer which.

    Maybe a plug-in that switched the view would be a way forward, if it is possible to successfully program this alongside the myriad of other features that Studio already offers.

    All the best,
    Ali
  • 0 in reply to Alison Field
    Hi Ali, Jonathan,
    I have used both layouts and don't have strong feelings either way - I appreciate Jonathan's point though and agree that vertical is better for comparing source and target word by word.
    I have noticed that memoQ have added the vertical option at some point recently.
    I used to work with a Translation Company's proprietary tool (no names, no pack-drill ;-)) which was (and probably still is) seriously awful – one of the few good features it had was the ability to choose between these two layouts!
    As for drag-and-drop, it would be nice to have full drag-and-drop copy functionality in the Studio Editor, e.g. not only source to target, but also source or target to the Filter box, Concordance window to target: the current arrangement is far too fiddly.
Reply
  • 0 in reply to Alison Field
    Hi Ali, Jonathan,
    I have used both layouts and don't have strong feelings either way - I appreciate Jonathan's point though and agree that vertical is better for comparing source and target word by word.
    I have noticed that memoQ have added the vertical option at some point recently.
    I used to work with a Translation Company's proprietary tool (no names, no pack-drill ;-)) which was (and probably still is) seriously awful – one of the few good features it had was the ability to choose between these two layouts!
    As for drag-and-drop, it would be nice to have full drag-and-drop copy functionality in the Studio Editor, e.g. not only source to target, but also source or target to the Filter box, Concordance window to target: the current arrangement is far too fiddly.
Children
No Data