Low-tech way to get rid of unneeded tags in DOCX in memoQ Thread poster: Dominique Pivard
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| | | Have you tried... | Sep 20, 2012 |
The second video shows a method that can be OK for very small documents, but is far from being practical for very large documents.
These RPR tags mostly appear when the DOC file has had a very poor DTP, i.e. use of fonts and sizes on each individual paragraph instead of simply creating styles, which is the preferred practice.
If the document as a whole has one single font, you will often see that selecting the whole document and applying it the font again (without destr... See more The second video shows a method that can be OK for very small documents, but is far from being practical for very large documents.
These RPR tags mostly appear when the DOC file has had a very poor DTP, i.e. use of fonts and sizes on each individual paragraph instead of simply creating styles, which is the preferred practice.
If the document as a whole has one single font, you will often see that selecting the whole document and applying it the font again (without destroying any other formatting) using the font box in the toolbar already removes a fair amount of RPR tags. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | RPR tags in DOCX files | Sep 20, 2012 |
Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
The second video shows a method that can be OK for very small documents, but is far from being practical for very large documents.
I agree. However, it's OK for me, because I mainly translate documents like the one used in the video.
Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
These RPR tags mostly appear when the DOC file has had a very poor DTP, i.e. use of fonts and sizes on each individual paragraph instead of simply creating styles, which is the preferred practice.
In this particular case, the RPR tags appeared after saving from DOC to DOCX in Word 2010. Although I didn't mention it in the video, the original DOC imported without any tags in memoQ. And as I said, Studio 2011 managed to import the DOCX without any tags either, although I got 12 RPR tags with memoQ. This leads me to believe the DOCX filter in memoQ could be improved (to the standard set by Studio).
Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:
If the document as a whole has one single font, you will often see that selecting the whole document and applying it the font again (without destroying any other formatting) using the font box in the toolbar already removes a fair amount of RPR tags.
Nice idea. However, I tried it and it didn't change anything: I was still left with the same 12 RPR tags.
| | | | | CodeZapper is low tech too... | Sep 20, 2012 |
of course for the user, it just takes installing the template and clicking the button. For its author its quite a different story....
CodeZapper is not free, but worth having anyway.
Piotr
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Piotr Bienkowski wrote:
of course for the user, it just takes installing the template and clicking the button. For its author its quite a different story....
CodeZapper is not free, but worth having anyway.
Code Zapper is a nifty piece of software and definitely worth having for translators who work in Windows. However, as I mentioned in my reply to your comment on my vlog earlier today, it didn't help in this particular case.
The version of Code Zapper nowadays built into Déjà Vu X2 did help with that same document in DVX2: without it, there would have been tons of codes in the grid, with it there were only a few codes, a few less than in memoQ.
I plan to make a follow up video mentioning Code Zapper and its effects in DVX2.
| | | | Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 09:19
English to Chinese
| I want to echo this | Sep 20, 2012 |
[quote]Dominique Pivard wrote:
Studio 2011 managed to import the DOCX without any tags either, although I got 12 RPR tags with memoQ. This leads me to believe the DOCX filter in memoQ could be improved (to the standard set by Studio).
[Edited at 2012-09-20 17:48 GMT]
| | | | | | Pavel Tsvetkov 
Bulgaria
Local time: 19:19
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Dear Dominique,
Thank you for uploading the video. I do have a question though:
You state that the Déjà vu X2 verson of CodeZapper is superior to the Word version – is that the official position of the author of CodeZapper?
Kind Regards,
PTs
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| Standalone vs. built-in CodeZapper | Sep 28, 2012 |
Pavel Tsvetkov wrote:
You state that the Déjà vu X2 verson of CodeZapper is superior to the Word version – is that the official position of the author of CodeZapper?
I'm not the author of CodeZapper, so I can't answer your question, but I didn't say (or at least didn't mean to say or imply) that the built-in version of CodeZapper is better than the standalone one.
All I said is that the standalone CodeZapper couldn't remove more tags from my sample DOCX file that memoQ hadn't already removed itself, whereas, with the same document, Déjà Vu would have had lots of codes (153) without CodeZapper, but very few (9) with it. What I didn't try is this: run standalone CodeZapper on DOCX, then import in Déjá Vu (without built-in CodeZapper), Chances are the results would be the same.
The standalone CodeZapper gives you more flexibility, since you can choose what macro(s) to run. There are macros for specific tasks and situations. In Déjà Vu, OTOH, you can only tick a checkbox, and accept whatever has been hard-coded.
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