I translate an Excel file, in which there are a lot of manually bulleted lists, each item starting with "space + dash + space", e.g.:
- Heating/Cooling
- Electrical energy
How can I set a segmentation rule for "space + dash + space" as a starting string?
It can be done:
The trick is seeing what the segments look like without the rule. If you turn on the show spaces you'll see that the first space is not there because it's considered unnecessary and is moved external to the segment. So you only really need a rule for the "dash+space".
To do that I usually put something in the basic editor so I know where the rule needs to be like this:
Then switch to Advanced and replace the XX and YY with a proper regular expression. I know you probably don't need to do this, but I've done it for so long it makes more sense in my head!
So this:
XX[YY]+
Would be become this:
-[\s]+
So before the break is the dash, and break on the space.
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for your reply.
This rule will separate everything after a space+dash:
"- Solar panels project - separate Project?" =>
"-"
"Solar panels project -"
"separate Project?"
I would need to separate the starting dash only:
"-"
"Solar panels project - separate Project?"
Is it possible?
No problem... ish:
Although I did have to play around a little because Trados Studio can be a bit unpredictable with regex for segmentation. I expected any of these to work but they failed:
^-[\s]+
(?<!.)-[\s]+
So in the end made it work with this:
^\s*-[\s]+
The \s* accounts for any potential quirks in Trados' handling of invisible characters (e.g., tabs, extra spaces), and anchoring with ^ ensures the match applies only to the first hyphen at the start of the line.
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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No problem... ish:
Although I did have to play around a little because Trados Studio can be a bit unpredictable with regex for segmentation. I expected any of these to work but they failed:
^-[\s]+
(?<!.)-[\s]+
So in the end made it work with this:
^\s*-[\s]+
The \s* accounts for any potential quirks in Trados' handling of invisible characters (e.g., tabs, extra spaces), and anchoring with ^ ensures the match applies only to the first hyphen at the start of the line.
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me.
My segmentation rule looks like this:
And the segmented file (I've also attached the source file):
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