Oscar Villarino 

Interesting conversation with the AI. But the simple reality is that your source file is an xliff and Trados Studio doesn’t know anything about what type of formatting is supported. This is because the underlying format that created the xliff could have been anything.  So the only formatting you can apply will be what’s in the source. And in this case there is no formatting in the source.

To explain that better… it’s not really formatting you would be applying from the source, it would simply be tags and you would transfer them from the source to the target. Studio won’t know what they are for, they are just tags.

The only way formatting can be applied is if you have the original source file.. which in this case looks like a Word file. So if you have memoQ you should be able to do that there. Although it looks as though you may have been provided with a split file so unless it was you who split the original even that xliff if added to memoQ may not support formatting… although I’d have to test that.

This would be the same for any CAT tool that is given an xliff as the source file.

Thanks for your detailed feedback, Paul.

Source is Portuguese and target is Spanish, the terms to apply italic are English words that are not translated (is an orthography rule for foreign terms, in case you don't know), and there are no tags on source. One option would be quotations "" but italic is preferable and it is what they use on the website of the client.

Files were originally from MemoQ and the agency sent them to me prepared to be edited on Studio, upon my request

When saving the target it can be

I hope this gives you some light to understand more the issue.

I commented this with the PM earlier and she told me to add a comment when formatting was not active.

And, yes, looks like you are right, the file would be editable only having the source file.

I though of using the exported bilingual file to apply the italic and importing it back but the font stay normal.

Note:

I have just found some tags that appear to be italic

Then, pasting that code on target in the required cases would rend an italic font on target final file?

Thanks again!

 Oscar Villarino 

I understand the problem. This is a limitation of working with intermediate files and not the original source. Simple as that.

thanks, Paul, Have you seen the tags I found?

"Then, pasting that code on target in the required cases would rend an italic font on target final file?"

Regards

thanks, Paul, Have you seen the tags I found?

"Then, pasting that code on target in the required cases would rend an italic font on target final file?"

Regards

 Oscar Villarino 

Try it. I could not confirm this would work without testing. It might work… but given these are normally placeholders that are used when recreating the target file from the original source I think it is probably unlikely. But give it a go… can’t hurt to validate this for yourself.

Hello Paul

PM has arranged a single document with the italic tag

Hope you can send some light here as this is on the final step of my review and we are trying to avoid the PM to add the italic in MemoQ after delivery

Appreciating your time

Regards

OGV

files are delivered, thanks for your attempt support!

Oscar Villarino 

Glad you sorted it out.  Note that we are not support!  I'm also on leave!!