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SDL Studio 2014: First Impression and Overview of New Features
The release of SDL Studio 2014 on September 30, 2013 marks the third iteration of the SDL Studio translation environment that supersedes the older Trados brand environment that is now officially discontinued. SDL accompanied the launch with a formal press release (that I completely disagree with its message; TEnTs or any other technology are not…
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Understanding how to Work with Bi-Directionality (BiDi) Text
I’m a native Hebrew Speaker. Hebrew, as well as Arabic and several other languages, is a Right-to-Left (abbreviated ‘RTL’) language, meaning that it is written from Right to Left. Translators and other content creators working with bidirectionality (abbreviated ‘BiDi’) content – i.e. text containing both Left-to-Right (abbreviated ‘LTR’) and Right-to-Left characters and segments – are…
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Analyzing Files in SDL Studio
One common complaint that experienced users of SDL Trados and some users coming from other tools have after switching to SDL Studio is that getting the file analysis statistics is complicated, slow, and cumbersome. On the occasion of the upcoming release of Studio 2014 I thought to share the method I use for analyzing files…
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Removing Tags from a Translation Memory
Earlier this week a colleague contacted me with an issue. One of his agency clients sent him a Translation Memory, but much to his dismay, the TM was cluttered with unnecessary formatting tags that rendered it pretty much useless. This clutter is usually being referred to as a “Tag soup”, and it is primarily the…
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