TRAINING for Idiom workbench

1、one hisoft = one dream + one team + one customer at a time training for idiom workbench topics file types introduction of menus the structure and user interface use idiom workbench for translation other features file types utranslation kit (.xlz file) contains all the information desktop workbench n

2、eeds to build the actual project files you use to translate the project. uafter you open a new translation kit, it will generate the following files: 1) a project file (.wsprj file): the primary file you work in when translating. you translation will be saved in this file. so please handback this fi

3、le to pm if it has been edited by you. 2) a translation memory database (.wstm file): this file contains any existing translation memory matches from worldserver. you can also input your translations in the tm. just like trados tm. 3) a terminology database (.wstd file): this file contains any exist

4、ing terminology database matches from worldserver. note: .xlz file is a translation kit, only include the same original files as handoff, with none of your work saved. all your work will be saved in wsprj file. introduction of menus file menu all the commands in the file menu are the standard window

5、s option, using to create, open and close the file. edit menu includes copy, cut, paste, search press ctr+s to search the td hisoft confidential & proprietary use idiom for translation auto search hisoft confidential & proprietary use idiom for translation auto search setting the minimum score: 1. c

6、lick tools option. 2. in general tab, setting the minmum score. notes: auto search dialog will not display any matches strings whose match value is lower than what you set. we usually set it as 75%. hisoft confidential & proprietary view menu display the tag click view display tags to select to disp

7、lay placeholder or tag. hover the mouse over the tag or press f6, you can view the contents of the tag notes: the order of the tag pairs should be kept unchanged when moving. in other words, if you want to move the tag pairs, you must move both of the tags and keep the order as it is. hisoft confide

8、ntial & proprietary view menu using comments open the column for comments ，enter your comments after the comments are added, the comments icon will display in the left of the row. hover your mouse over the icon can see the comments. hisoft confidential & proprietary view menu translate the index his

9、oft confidential & proprietary offline preview you can see the source and target in html file. click asset save to save the reference file notes: only the html asset can be previewed directly. hisoft confidential & proprietary other features you can check the workload before translation select “all”

10、to check the amount of all kind of contents statistics: hisoft confidential & proprietary spell checking you can select the built-in checker in workbench or microsoft office checker from tools options spelling notes: please make sure filter all your translations before checking the spell, or it will

11、 check all strings, which will be time consuming work. hisoft confidential & proprietary placeholder checking the placeholders in target should be kept consistent with the source. hisoft confidential & proprietary consistency checking - 1 the consistency checking including the terminology checking a

12、nd number checking. once checked, the strings with inconsistency terms will marked with a red exclamation mark hisoft confidential & proprietary consistency checking - 2 you can filter all these inconsistent translation using the filter. hove your mouse over the red exlamation mark, you can see the

13、explanation to indicate whats the inconsistency. (notes: not all the inconsistency are wrong, please judge it by yourself). hisoft confidential & proprietary configure the tm and td if pm only send you the .wsprj file, you can add the original tm and td in this file. 1, click project configuration.

14、you will see the above dialog. 2. click database, you can add the tm and td. hisoft confidential & proprietary pretranslate you can pretranslate the file by leveraging the translation in tm&td translation pretranslate notes: pretranslate has no effect on manual translation. hisoft confidential & proprietary export strings segments exported as .txt file, you can convert it into csv file to add in the search tool if necessa