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How to "paste source into target segment" while automatically replacing Multiterm matches with the corresponding target term

Esther Moreno Barriuso

Hi, I am translating a math text where many of the Math terms are kept in a Multiterm 1:1 glossary (that is, for each English term there is only one Spanish translation). I would need something that Wordfast already did about 10 years ago: Copy source into target segment BUT WHILE replacing at the same time all the words found in the glossary with their corresponding Spanish (i.e., target-language) version.

Why? Because I need to copy source into target segment due to the high amount of tags I have, but I would like to avoid replacing each word in the glossary using CTRL+, (if possible).

 

That is, if my sentence is

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Find the gradient of the function f(x)=x^3-2x+1 at x=2 and write the equation of the function's asymptotes.

 

and I have in my glossary gradient= pendiente; function= función; find=halle; write= escriba; equation=ecuación; asymptote= asíntota

I would like the fancy-copy-source-into-target to paste

Halle the pendiente of the función f(x)=x^3-2x+1 at x=2 and escriba the ecuación of the función's asíntota.

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Any help?? If Champollion could do it on his own, I bet you can too. :)

Best regards,

Esther
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    Esther Moreno Barriuso said:
    If Champollion could do it on his own, I bet you can too. :)

    I'm not sure what to make of that statement... Yves is hardly a hobby developer!

    But having said that the idea may have some merit and I wasn't aware that Wordfast did that, nor did I think if such an approach.  The old Trados used to do this with a pre-translate function but it was never brought forward into the Studio product line, mainly because it was little used, but also because it's fraught with problems unless you only have a one to one relationship with your terms as synonyms are problematic.  Even then homonyms could cause problems.  So the value in doing the work to introduce it into the core product was never there.  Even today I could count on one hand the number of times I have seen this request since the release of Studio 2009.

    So I doubt it will be a core product function, but it might be possible to address this with a plugin if a developer saw fit to create one.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

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    Hi  

    Esther Moreno Barriuso said:
    If Champollion could do it on his own, I bet you can too. :)

    I'm not sure what to make of that statement... Yves is hardly a hobby developer!

    But having said that the idea may have some merit and I wasn't aware that Wordfast did that, nor did I think if such an approach.  The old Trados used to do this with a pre-translate function but it was never brought forward into the Studio product line, mainly because it was little used, but also because it's fraught with problems unless you only have a one to one relationship with your terms as synonyms are problematic.  Even then homonyms could cause problems.  So the value in doing the work to introduce it into the core product was never there.  Even today I could count on one hand the number of times I have seen this request since the release of Studio 2009.

    So I doubt it will be a core product function, but it might be possible to address this with a plugin if a developer saw fit to create one.

    Paul Filkin | RWS

    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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