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Knowledge Base / one2edit™ v4 Admins – Creating Projects Manually / Applying Segmentation Rules

Apply Segmentation Rules in a Master Document

Created on 10th June 2024 at 17:41 by Jamie O'Connell



Text is translated in segments known as Translation Units. These are often single sentences, but may also be paragraphs.

Translation Memory (TM) databases contain translation-unit matches across multiple different languages, enabling machines to do some of this translation work, typically on a first pass (a pre-translation).

This lesson demonstrates how to apply Segmentation Rules (uploaded or created via Settings > Segmentation Rules) to your document so that the text is segmented correctly for use with your translation memory.

NOTE: If you use the Project-Creation Assistant to create your project, then Segmentation Rules will have already been applied.

NOTE: The InDesign® document stories are NOT affected by this segmentation action. Segmentation is solely to assist with translation, and the flow/design of the InDesign document will stay intact.

Open the Master Document

Open the Master Document

Text is segmented within the master document.

Double-click on the document to open the Master Document Editor, or click Open Document in the option menu.

Change Document Segmentation

By default, one2edit™ will segment the text in a document by paragraph (i.e. using the paragraph character as the signal for a segment break).

Click Change Segmentation in any of the option menus from the Structure Panel to open the Apply Segmentation dialog.

  1. Apply to: Specify if you want to apply the text segmentation to the whole document, or just to selected parts of it. In the example above, the segmentation will be applied to the Selected Content Group, which in this case is All Items (i.e. the entire document).
  2. Action: Select the text-segmentation action to be performed, e.g., segment the text according to segmentation rules, InDesign® stories, paragraphs, etc.
  3. Segmentation Rule: If you choose to segment the text according to segmentation rules, you must choose the appropriate rule set here.
  4. Language: Choose the language of the master document. The chosen segmentation rule set should contain rules corresponding to this language.

When you have chosen the appropriate settings, click Apply.

NOTE: The one2edit Default rules are always available. These rules are provided as-is, and may meet your requirements. However, you should import the segmentation rules from your own translation memory CAT tool in order to get the best translation matches in your workflow.

Segmented Text

The text has now been segmented into translation units according to the rules used.




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