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SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

By : Andy Walker
Book Image

SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

By: Andy Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SDL Trados Studio – A Practical Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Analyzing files without a TM


You will sometimes have new documents for translation but no TM that contains matching content. To find out whether the documents themselves contain repeated content, you can analyze them against a dummy (new and empty) TM. In this situation, however, the Analyze Files report will, by default, tell you only how many New segments and Repetitions the documents will generate during translation.

To gauge more accurately the time and effort that the documents will take to translate by checking also how many fuzzy matches the documents will generate, in the Settings screen of the Analyze Files wizard, select Analyze Files | Report internal fuzzy match leverage (as described in the earlier section, Configuring the settings).

Tip

Similarly, if you are expecting the TM to produce matches and are surprised that the report shows only New matches, Repetitions, and Cross-file repetitions, it could well be that you have somehow failed to select a TM. To check and modify your...