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How to handle abbrev. with Wordfast Auto-Aligner
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Apr 2, 2022

Auto-Aligner is rather good, but you cannot add your own list of abbrev.

Here's a workaround:

Source:
Screen Shot 2022-04-02 at 10.35.03

Target:
Screen Shot 2022-04-02 at 10.34.46

In the third paragraph of the source document I've replaced the full stops after the abbrev. 'Hy' with a unique sign, the dollar sign.

Note how this tricks Auto-Aligner's segmentation:
Screen Shot 2022-04-02 at 10.37.30

In the Excel table, the TMX or TXT file that Auto-Aligner sends you, you can replace the unique sign with a full stop.


[Edited at 2022-04-02 08:40 GMT]
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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What happens Apr 2, 2022

What happens if you use non-breaking spaces after those fullstops?
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
I don't know ... Apr 2, 2022

Samuel Murray wrote:

What happens if you use non-breaking spaces after those fullstops?


I had thought about that but decided to go for a unique sign rather than for the non-breaking space.
 


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