6.2 - Translation Editor

IDevice Icon Reading Activity
The Translation Editor view presents a side-by-side view of the document: the source document is displayed in a table, with each sentence (segment) in a row. The table has five columns:

1. The first column shows the segment id.
2. The second column contains the source segments.
3. The third column reveals the segment status (e.g. in progress, untranslated). It contains icons indicating the translation status and the translation origin. Here, you can ascertain at a glance whether a translation is in draft status, is confirmed, etc.
4. The actual translations are entered into the fourth column.
5. The last column shows the document structure information (e.g. a heading, a footnote, normal paragraph text).

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Reflection #1: What information about the document layout can you get from the last column on the picture above?


The Windows in the Editor View

Above the side-by-side editor, you see a number of tabbed windows, most importantly the Translation Results window. This is where hits from the TM (if any) are displayed. Note that the window actually consists of a number of tabbed windows. By clicking the tabs you can switch between different windows, e.g. Translation Results, Messages, Concordance Search, and Comments.

Next to the Translation Results window there is the Term Recognition window, which also contains the tabbed window Termbase Search. This window displays hits (if any) from the selected termbase(s).

It is possible to close, resize, and rearrange all windows to use your screen space as required. To re-open windows select the menu commands View -> Termbase Search and View -> Term Recognition.

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Reflection #2: Which of the tabbed windows do you think is the most relevant to the translation process? Why?



You can auto-hide windows by clicking the Auto Hide (pin) button in the upper right corner of the window. If the pin is pointing to the left, the window automatically collapses once you move out the mouse pointer. You can disable Auto Hide and fix the position of the window by clicking the pin button once more.

Windows may be rearranged within the application or even dragged and positioned outside of Trados Studio. To dock the window, for example, to the right border Trados Studio, move your mouse pointer (with the left mouse button still pressed) over the direction indicator pointing to the right and release the left mouse button.

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