This video will show you how CafeTran can assist you in adding new term pairs to your glossary, during the translation process.
When translating academical or technical texts, one often has to deal with lists that consist of items that are numbered according to a numbering scheme consisting of several levels.
For instance, items of table of contents are quite often numbered, following a numerical system with one to five levels. When translating technical manuals, one often has to deal with object names that are followed by a position number, placed between round brackets.
In this video we start with translating a table of contents that is organised in several levels. Each level has its own number. Every item of a level has its own number too.
Steps
1. Translate the segment, inserting new terms manually. Don't bother about sentence case or upper case at that very moment.
2. Add the individual new terms to the glossary by selecting them in the source and target segment and hitting the keyboard shortcut.
Note: You can also add the complete content of the source and target segment to the glossary, truncating leading or trailing characters as defined in Options, Memory items Trim New Term Start and Trim New Term End. To enable this feature, you will have to enable it in the Translation menu. Choose Options and enable the item, Trim New Terms.
3. Type your translation into the segment with leading numbers.
4. Without selecting any terms, press the keyboard shortcut that you have assigned to the function Add terms to glossary.
Note: The complete content of both the source and target segment is added to the glossary. Leading numbers are truncated.
Taking this to the next level, you can always make CafeTran truncating position numbers in technical texts.
5. Open the Edit, Options menu.
6. Tab to the Glossary tab.
7. Adjust the item Trim new term end to your needs, e.g. from [\p{Punct}]*\s*\z to [^\p{L}]+\z
Imagine you have to translate segments like the ones in this Microsoft Word document. Note the non-breaking spaces that are inserted to ensure that numbers and words always are wrapped together.
8. Without selecting any terms, press the keyboard shortcut that you have assigned to the function, add terms to glossary.
