Align Assist
Gururaj Rao
PowerPoint files given to me for reference, and was happy generally
with the manner in which the application quickly presented the
segmented text side by side.
The shortcut keys for merging and deleting text were very useful. I
had two issues during the alignment.
1) The number of slides was 89; however, Align Assist (AA) picked up
only 75 of the Japanese slides, and 89 of the English slides. I'm not
sure why this issue occurred.
2) The Japanese ppt file had notes given to me for translation. The
slides were for reference.
When I aligned the files, the Notes appeared on the left side
(Japanese), so I had to delete all of them by hand.
Is it possible to exclude Notes BEFORE the alignment process?
3) A suggestion if I may - possible to include an operation to delete
all identical source and target segments? (such as COT, SOLAS and
other English abbreviations names that appear frequently in the source
and target columns and need to be deleted by hand)
4) The alignment process can be finished in a jiffy if AA does not
segment after a full stop in abbreviations such as Ref. 1, Fig. 2 and
so on. The target segment splits after Ref., Fig. and the figures 1, 2
... are placed in the next row, which needs to be merged.
This was the first alignment job I did after doing so in Trados 7 more
than 3 years ago. AA is definitely more user-friendly and easy to work
with (although Trados Align might have improved - I don't know).
Thanks Ryan, for the excellent AA that you have released to the general public.
Gururaj Rao
http://cli.gs/ttech/
Gardening Blog: http://japanesegarden.wordpress.com
Ginstrom IT Solutions
> I tried out Align Assist for the first time on Japanese and English
PowerPoint
> files given to me for reference, and was happy generally with the manner
in
> which the application quickly presented the segmented text side by side.
Thanks for the feedback on Align Assist.
> 1) The number of slides was 89; however, Align Assist (AA) picked up only
75
> of the Japanese slides, and 89 of the English slides. I'm not sure why
this
> issue occurred.
If you can send me the files, I'd be happy to have a look.
> 2) The Japanese ppt file had notes given to me for translation. The slides
were
...
> Is it possible to exclude Notes BEFORE the alignment process?
It's not possible now, but that's a good idea, thanks.
> 3) A suggestion if I may - possible to include an operation to delete all
> identical source and target segments? (such as COT, SOLAS and other
English
> abbreviations names that appear frequently in the source and target
columns
> and need to be deleted by hand)
Another good suggestion. It would speed up many types of alignment tasks.
> 4) The alignment process can be finished in a jiffy if AA does not
segment
> after a full stop in abbreviations such as Ref. 1, Fig. 2 and so on. The
target
> segment splits after Ref., Fig. and the figures 1, 2 ... are placed in the
next
> row, which needs to be merged.
This is a good idea. Right now, with Word and PowerPoint you are able to
specify a list of abbreviations. I will add a ticket to be able to do this
in Align Assist as well.
Regards,
Ryan
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