How to turn off automatically split after each punctuation mark

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Hello, 
 Apologies for the simple question, but is it possible to disable the automatic segmentation? 
 In the images I've uploaded, you'll notice that the text is split after every punctuation mark. 
 in other places it is even worse Is there a way to disable this automatic segmentation, so the text displays continuously, as it would in a regular editor? Thanks in advance.

Paul · Accepted Answer

H. Hulkov 
 H. Hulkov said: However, there are tags present, and Trados doesn't filter them out properly, so I have to remove them using a different editor. 
 Only because you don't know how to use Trados! 
 H. Hulkov said: However, since it impacts the translation memory (TM), this approach is not feasible for me. 
 Indeed. So try this approach instead: 
 Create a custom filetype to handle the original source file 
 New -> Regular Expression Delimited Text 
 Opening Pattern: \w+\s+?=\s" 
 Closing Pattern: " 
 This gets you this far: 
 
 To make sure you keep the paragraphs, just open the file in a project against a TM that uses Paragraph Segmentation: 
 
 Now in your project you'll get this: 
 
 I don't know how you want to handle the 
 codes for the line feeds but you can either just tag them, or have them actually move the content to a new line. So like this where the tag is moved externally so you don't have to deal with it: 
 
 Or like this where we keep the tag with the text but protect it so you don't mistakenly break it: 
 
 This is done with a simple inline tag, placeholder using this rule: 
 \n 
 
 Is this what you needed?

Paul · Answer

H. Hulkov 
 But I'd actually recommend you don't use the paragraph segmentation anyway for the same reasons I mentioned earlier. You can preview the file as you translate it and that should give you everything you need in terms of visibility:

Paul · Answer

H. Hulkov 
 well&hellip; you could use a TM with paragraph segmentation instead of the default. But I have two things to consider 
 First, not all of your segments are segmented on punctuation and this makes me think the structure of the source file may be causing this. So to change it you&rsquo;d need to share the underlying filetype and what it looked like. 
 Secondly, the segmentation makes it easier to translate and also get better leverage from your TM. Why would you not want this? 
 And worth noting Studio isn&rsquo;t a regular editor at all&hellip; it has a different purpose.

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How to turn off automatically split after each punctuation mark

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