Are InDesign Editorial Notes supported?

How do InDesign’s Editorial Notes interspersed inside the text appear in Trados translation software, if at all?

I am not a user of any version of Trados, but commission translations of InDesign documents to translators that might be. In those InDesign documents, when a fragment in the text is itself a translation from another language, I usually add the source as an Editorial Note next to it so that the translator can know what the original was. I wonder if translators using Trados can see these notes at all.

Attached is a sample document with an Editorial Note in INDD (2023), IDML and ICML formats.

2821.Editorial Note example.indd.zip8625.Editorial Note example.idml.zip6153.Editorial Note example.icml.zip

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    Using default settings for the filetype I see this:

    Screenshot showing the document structure information pane and a segment marked as a "Note"

    I don't know how to add an "Editorial Note" in InDesign so I could not see it in InDesign, but it's picked up in Studio.  Looking at this it seems to be given the "Note" context.  I don't think I can stop this being processed as translatable text automatically, but I can filter on a "Note" using the Advanced Display Filter and then lock them so I have this:

    Screenshot showing a locked "Note" segment

    At least now the translator will see them and be able to read them, but they won't be taken into account for an analysis (by default... this can be changed) and as they're locked won't be mistakenly translated either (if that's your goal?).

    Similarly with the InCopy file:

    Screenshot showing an InCopy file open in the editor and a segment using the context "Note"

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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