Unknown said:

Is there a setting that makes it possible to automatically change double spaces at the end of a segment into single spaces? These spaces are not shown in the segment itself, so I cannot do so while translating.

Ineke

These spaces should show up if you enable the display of spaces. To do this, click on the "paragraph icon" in the View part of the ribbon and you will see small dots wherever there is a space.

I know this problem of double spaces with US texts and it is annoying. On the other hand, I am surprised you still get this because this was a habit in US long time ago and it is disappearing, meaning that younger people do not follow this rule anymore. 

What I used to do with these texts was to open them in Word before translation and replace all occurrences of "a dot followed by two spaces" by "a dot followed by one space".

Beste groeten.

Walter

Walter, thank you for your reply.
However, making spaces visible (which is a standard setting for me) doesn't do the trick. These double spaces are not shown in Trados. There are NO spaces at the end of my segments in Trados, not one, not two. So I cannot delete anything in Trados.

Since I am a medical translator, I am not surprised that my texts in general will not be written by the younger generation. I do encounter this problem quite often. And if there is no way to solve this in Trados, my clients will keep the double spaces in the return package I usually have to send them.

I do not always get the Word files, and even if I do, if I get a package from a cliënt, editing the word files in the source texts doesn't help either.

I am not looking for a workaround, I have worked around this already for many years.
I am looking for a solution, and one might expect with all the new versions Trados is promoting, that annoying problems like this one should have been solved.

Walter, thank you for your reply.
However, making spaces visible (which is a standard setting for me) doesn't do the trick. These double spaces are not shown in Trados. There are NO spaces at the end of my segments in Trados, not one, not two. So I cannot delete anything in Trados.

Since I am a medical translator, I am not surprised that my texts in general will not be written by the younger generation. I do encounter this problem quite often. And if there is no way to solve this in Trados, my clients will keep the double spaces in the return package I usually have to send them.

I do not always get the Word files, and even if I do, if I get a package from a cliënt, editing the word files in the source texts doesn't help either.

I am not looking for a workaround, I have worked around this already for many years.
I am looking for a solution, and one might expect with all the new versions Trados is promoting, that annoying problems like this one should have been solved.

Ineke

I still wonder why you can't see these spaces in the Editor. In my case, I do see spaces at the end of a segment, regardless of the number of them. If they are not shown, then they are most probably not normal spaces. 

If you don't get the Word files, you can still create it from the SDLXLIFF (File - Advanced Save - Save as source.."), replace the double spaces and reopen the corrected Word document.

Unknown said:

I am not looking for a workaround, I have worked around this already for many years.
I am looking for a solution, and one might expect with all the new versions Trados is promoting, that annoying problems like this one should have been solved.

Hi Ineke,

The display filter is in the Review ribbon and you filter on "All Content":

But I'm not convinced this will help you do anything more than carry out a visual check.  You can edit them and delete a space but it's manual.

Regards

Paul

Unknown said:

couldn't find it, since it was called All segments, now I see that it has a submeny with the option All Content in it.

Ineke

"All content" is not a submenu of "All segments", it is one of the many choices offered by the Display Filter. You can access it simply by clicking on the funnel symbol in the status bar and it gives you a lot of choices to restrict what you want to see in the Editor. You can for example temporarily only show the segments that have comments, or tracked changes or all the ones you have not yet confirmed, etc,

Very useful, mainly for the checking stage after translation.

Walter