Smartling confusion Thread poster: Philippe Noth
| Philippe Noth Switzerland Local time: 01:55 Member (2015) German to French + ...
I have been working occasionally in Smartling. It looks like a good web-based tool, but there is something that baffles me since the beginning: this concept of segments and subsegments. I just do not get it, am I missing something?
So here I am, reviewing a translation, confirming segments like in any other CAT tool… and suddenly comes a multi-segment. And with the same key combination, I am suddenly confirming not one sentence, the one I read, but a bunch of sentences, which I di... See more I have been working occasionally in Smartling. It looks like a good web-based tool, but there is something that baffles me since the beginning: this concept of segments and subsegments. I just do not get it, am I missing something?
So here I am, reviewing a translation, confirming segments like in any other CAT tool… and suddenly comes a multi-segment. And with the same key combination, I am suddenly confirming not one sentence, the one I read, but a bunch of sentences, which I did not read. It is very disruptive, I now need to scroll back to read the parts I missed.
My only answer to this issue is to keep looking ahead to see whether I jumped into a single segment or a multiple one. Do I really have to do that?
[Illustration taken from Sandberg's knowledge base about Smartling]
Thanks in advance for your enlightenment.
Philippe ▲ Collapse | | | Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:55 English to Russian Paragraph-based segmentation | Mar 10, 2023 |
This resembles a paragraph-based segmentation in Trados or memoQ.
Philippe Noth wrote:
My only answer to this issue is to keep looking ahead to see whether I jumped into a single segment or a multiple one. Do I really have to do that? You have to keep an eye on the green marker on the left. When you see it, you are in a paragraph consisting of multiple segments. Review/edit all the paragraph segments covered by that green marker and only then confirm them.
[Edited at 2023-03-10 14:30 GMT] | | | Thomas Pfann United Kingdom Local time: 00:55 Member (2006) English to German + ...
Philippe Noth wrote:
My only answer to this issue is to keep looking ahead to see whether I jumped into a single segment or a multiple one. Do I really have to do that?
I believe so. It's one of my biggest bugbears with Smartling – maybe the only one.
I have been using Smartling for years and really like it, but I haven't yet found a way around the problem you describe. | | | Philippe Noth Switzerland Local time: 01:55 Member (2015) German to French + ... TOPIC STARTER Thanks, at least I know… | Mar 10, 2023 |
Thomas Pfann wrote:
Philippe Noth wrote:
My only answer to this issue is to keep looking ahead to see whether I jumped into a single segment or a multiple one. Do I really have to do that?
I believe so. It's one of my biggest bugbears with Smartling – maybe the only one.
I have been using Smartling for years and really like it, but I haven't yet found a way around the problem you describe.
Thanks, at least I know that I am not the only one to be bothered by that. I have been reading every information available about Smartling, hoping to find what I did wrong – a command to confirm/step into subsegments, a better workflow. But nope! All help about Smartling described this "feature" as it were perfectly normal and desirable, so I felt stupid not being able to work with it. | |
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:55 English to Russian Export as xliff | Mar 10, 2023 |
Thomas Pfann wrote:
I haven't yet found a way around the problem you describe. I downloaded the content (Job - Export Content) as xliff files along with TM and glossaries, translated them with Trados or memoQ, and then imported back into Smartling (Import Content).
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