WINALIGN HOW TO
WINALIGN MANUAL

Most of the document contains an introduction, chapters, sections and other structures, while in DOC or RTF document, the chapters, sections and other structures have been defined as a paragraph style.

WINALIGN MANUAL

WinAlign can also optimize the match results by adjusting the option even if it is free of manual interventionД«) Drag вЂњFormatting SignificanceвЂќ into вЂњHighвЂќ Note: you can load several files at one time. If the files cannot be connected by вЂњAlign File NameвЂќ, you can connect them manually) If the target language is Korean, please click вЂњTarget SegmentationвЂќ to select вЂњFull StopвЂќ and then change the value of Trailing Whitespace as вЂњ1вЂќ.ДЄ) Add the source files and target files Д«) Click вЂњAlign File NameвЂќ button and then the two files are connected. If the target language is Chinese, please click вЂњTarget SegmentationвЂќ to select вЂњColonвЂќ and вЂњMarksвЂќ and then change the value of Trailing Whitespace as вЂњ0вЂќ. If the target language is single byte, just keeps the default setting. NOTE: we need to make special setting for languages with double byte, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. in the window of вЂњNew WinAlign ProjectвЂќ, click вЂњSource LanguageвЂќ and вЂњTarget LanguageвЂќ button to choose source language and target language used in the project. The file type support includes word file, PPT file, HTML file and TTX file we used mostly. select the document type which use in the project in the drop-down menu вЂњFile TypeвЂќ. Please note this is just your project name, not file name.Д«). enter your project name in вЂњProject NameвЂќ, for example вЂњMy First Alignment ProjectвЂќ.

WINALIGN HOW TO

Now let us take SDL Trados 2006 as example to see how to make the operation step by step.ДЎ) Please go to вЂњStartвЂќ, and then go to вЂњApplicationsвЂќ, run WinAlign from the menu of SDL Trados 2006.Дў) Click вЂњFileвЂќ and then select вЂњNew ProjectвЂќ, below dialogue box popped up:ДЄ). Thus we can leverage all these translation and improve the efficiency and consistency of translation on the continuing projects. TXT file which contains the bilingual information and then import into a translation memory. These joint translation units will be exported into a. The translator needs to check if the joint is correct or not and make necessary corrections. And WinAlign automatically match these segments like translation unit. The source and the target can be split into segment which can be words, phrases and sentences. You can edit the connections, but you can only connect segments that are in the same paragraph.WinAlign is the component of SDL Trados and it is a tool which can recycle the projects for future use that didnвЂ™t use the translation memory tool for translation.

The alignment result files open in the Alignment view prior to adding the review changes to the project files.

You can also choose to review and manually adjust this alignment.

Studio performs an automatic alignment while updating the changes from an external reviewed target file.

This is an additional case where alignment is used.

Sends the translation units that result for all the generated alignment result files to the same translation memory.

This generates an alignment result (*.sdlalign) file for each pair of source and target document.

Suitable when you want to align several pairs of files at the same time.

Sends the translation units resulting from the aligned source and target document to your specified translation memory.

Suitable when you want to pair one source document to its corresponding target document and generate one single alignment result (*.sdlalign) file.

Here you can make small edits to the TUs before importing them into the translation memory.

The translation units generated from the alignment open in the Translation Memory view.

Suitable when you just want to create TM matches for your project and return to your translation work.

You can then also open the alignment file in the Editor view for extra editing or QA checks.

Here you can heavily edit the connections and the segment content.

The alignment result files open in the Alignment view.

Suitable when the source files you are aligning are not exact translations of your target files.

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