Does anyone know why I keep getting a message saying that there was a consistency error? This is a large file, and I'm afraid I'm going to lose all my work. It...
I apologise for chiming in on this so late, but I have a suggestion. Don't use two (or three?) nearly identifical shades of blue-green together in the format...
... lose ... Try making a TM of your work, creating an entirely new itd of same project, and applying the TM. ... Don't know what your troubles are exactly,...
Hi, I kept getting a similar error under the previous SDLX version. What I've noticed is that SDLX sometimes causes an error when you apply format painting to...
Hi Luis, Thanks. I don't think I explained clearly, since I sort of mixed several questions together. I can't format paint at all. It doesn't work. I click the...
Thanks, Richard ... project, > and applying the TM. Yes, that worked. Thanks. ... enhanced the format painting functions, and I'm having no problems with them...
Hi Joan, did you check the Format Paint tab (Tools --> Options --> Format Paint) to see whether the "right" (that is, right for you!) boxes are checked? As for...
Hmmm... if the format painting is not working at all, that sounds like a program bug. I am not sure what could be causing it, but I have an idea of what it...
Thank you all, Richard, Luis, Mirella, for being so helpful! Mirella, I hadn't even found format paint under tools. I had just assumed that everything related...
... Yep - the same happened to me when I upgraded to SDLX 2004, so it must be some sort of default setting. Luckily I was already familiar with the Format...
Hi all, Just to clear a few things up: [1] In SDLX 2004, the "Press enter to confirm format paint" is checked by default. As we've found that most users have...
Hello All Just another trick for fixing Consistency errors, go to the segment that has thas the problem and press CTRL F4 to copy the source formatting across....
David Pooley wrote: [5] If some source formatting isn't required in the translation, you can always delete the formatting. Enter format paint mode, click the...
I think you can duplicate it by pressing the ALT key, Richard. HtH, Roberta ... Roberta Anderson Technical Translations, Localization English > Italian Tel.:...
... After you have applied a selected format to a part of your translation, press and hold the Alt key, paint another part of your translation (in the same...
Thank you, David and Denise, for your additional suggestions. The one about being able to delete unwanted formatting is especially helpful. I didn't know there...
Now I'm having a new problem with this. When I try to create a file I get a message that says "Error merging file: possible due to incorrect format file (.skl...
I just posted the following message (which hasn't shown up in my inbox yet for some reason, but Urs received it. I finally managed to create the translation...
Hi again, I think you should do a clean install of SDLX, if you can... maybe the file is corrupted, but it could also be something in the program. You could...
Please ignore this one. It appears to be the long-lost message I sent about 10 hours ago. Joan ... From: Joan Wallace To: sdlx@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
Thanks, Luis. I'll try to keep track of when this happens and if it continues, I'll try your suggestion. This was also a very large file I was working with, I...
Hi, yet another wish based on the task I am facing now. I used SDL Utilities to export nearly one hundred separate ITD files to an Excel workbook, and sent...
If putting them in a TM is an option, you can save the workbook's sheets as txt files ensuring that the first and the second column are source and target and...
Hi all, I have a problem that's been bothering me for the last few months. An increasing number of the .doc and .rtf files I receive for translation are texts...
Sorry Stefan, but my post was misleading: I've checked the file again and only found soft returns (^p instead of ^v), so there's nothing to prevent me from...
Mirella, The replacement of hard returns is to manage for the conversion in idt files. Find and Replace: “^ p” – nothing or space. Without quotation...
Yup, but then it's easy: If paragraphs are delimited with hard returns, then simply replace any soft return with a space before extracting. And off you go...
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