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How to keep trailing spaces in repetitions?

Annemieke Jennissen

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can keep trailing spaces in autopropagated 100% matches? WorldServer projects require them but when I confirm a segment the trailing space is removed from the autopropagated match. This way I have to go through all of them and autopropagation loses its value...

thanks,

Annemieke
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    Hi Annemieke

    Looks like a bug... I think!!  I'll report it as I have not seen this before and it's probably not logged... but you never know.

    The easiest solution is probably to do a search and replace using the sdlxliff toolkit when you are done.  So search for this:

    (^.*[^\s]$)

    Then replace with this:

    $1   (Note: there needs to be a space after the $1)

    Using the toolkit will ensure that the statuses are not changed.

    Regards

    Paul

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    Hello Paul

    I've found this post because I get now and then complaint from QA that I am not following formatting and I have found out that Trados autopropagates but alters the original formatting. (eg. 3 cm > 5cm ). It is quite challenging to fix manually, since when in order to update TM, I need to confirm segment, and when I do that, all subsequent segments will be again propagated and space is again removed. Basically, I have to do one by one from top to down and by no means make any change or later fix, otherwise the change is lost.

    Here you suggests a workaround - this is post is from January and I assume Trados has not yet fixed this issue - but I am not sure how it works: I give you a concrete example:
    segment a: "5.000 kg (11.000 lb)" next one becomes "2.000kg (6.000lb)" - space between UM and figure is removed!

    I have about 280 segments to fix.. Do you have any tip how to solve this and at the same time make sure it is reflected on TM?

    Best

    Soraya Hoepfner
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    Hello Paul

    I've found this post because I get now and then complaint from QA that I am not following formatting and I have found out that Trados autopropagates but alters the original formatting. (eg. 3 cm > 5cm ). It is quite challenging to fix manually, since when in order to update TM, I need to confirm segment, and when I do that, all subsequent segments will be again propagated and space is again removed. Basically, I have to do one by one from top to down and by no means make any change or later fix, otherwise the change is lost.

    Here you suggests a workaround - this is post is from January and I assume Trados has not yet fixed this issue - but I am not sure how it works: I give you a concrete example:
    segment a: "5.000 kg (11.000 lb)" next one becomes "2.000kg (6.000lb)" - space between UM and figure is removed!

    I have about 280 segments to fix.. Do you have any tip how to solve this and at the same time make sure it is reflected on TM?

    Best

    Soraya Hoepfner
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