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Which CAT tool's bilingual review files use ELX tags?
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 17:32 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Feb 20, 2013
G'day everyone
I received "bilingual review" type of MS Word files today that must have been generated by a tool that I haven't encountered before. I'm just curious to know which tool it came from. The bilingual files have three columns, namely source, reference, and target. A unique-looking feature is that the tags are grey, in curly brackets, and have the letters ELX before the numbers. If there is a fuzzy match, the reference column contains both previous source text and targ... See more
G'day everyone
I received "bilingual review" type of MS Word files today that must have been generated by a tool that I haven't encountered before. I'm just curious to know which tool it came from. The bilingual files have three columns, namely source, reference, and target. A unique-looking feature is that the tags are grey, in curly brackets, and have the letters ELX before the numbers. If there is a fuzzy match, the reference column contains both previous source text and target text in the same cell.
It's probably a custom tool developed in-house. Many agencies are using such tools. For instance, here is a snapshot of a Word document I received last year:
It was a Word document in which I was supposed to enter the translations in the third column.
A custom template (.dot) was supplied with the document, that was supposed to be used for the translation:
In other words, they had re-invented their own version of Wordfast
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