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WFC greek letters (symbol font) as placeables?
Thread poster: peterhans
peterhans
peterhans
Germany
Local time: 07:17
English to German
+ ...
Oct 20, 2014

In technical texts (patents) I often meet variables in form of greek letters. If they are combined with numbers (indexed), WF will recognize this combination as placables. But als single characters I have to copy and paste them, losing the German spelling correction for the rest of segment. Is ther a possibility to declare single characters as placeables?

peterhans
 
Dominique Pivard
Dominique Pivard  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:17
Finnish to French
Use Alt+F12 Oct 20, 2014

You should be able to copy these characters from source to target with Alt+F12, in which case the source language won't be transferred to the target segment.
 
peterhans
peterhans
Germany
Local time: 07:17
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER
corrupt copy Oct 20, 2014

With Alt+F12, the Symbol letter ist represented only as a (.
 
Dominique Pivard
Dominique Pivard  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:17
Finnish to French
Font Oct 20, 2014

OK, Alt+F12 only works if the font is the same. What font does your document use? Many common fonts include Greek letters.

Still, defining your Greek letters as placeables sounds like a complicated workaround if all you want to do is spell-check the target segment in the correct language. Just select the entire segment with Ctrl+A and re-assign the correct language.
 
peterhans
peterhans
Germany
Local time: 07:17
English to German
+ ...
TOPIC STARTER
Font Oct 20, 2014

What do you mean by "font is the same"?
As shown in FIG. 12, possible combinations of two angle values constituting an angle value pair include a combination of s1 and s2,
In the above sentence, the two cryptic characters are originally thetas.
I tried Alt+F12 in the original Century, in Times New Roman, in Arial, and in Courier New. In none of these fonts, the theta was copied.
The transferring of the source language when copying and pasting was only an unpleasant... See more
What do you mean by "font is the same"?
As shown in FIG. 12, possible combinations of two angle values constituting an angle value pair include a combination of s1 and s2,
In the above sentence, the two cryptic characters are originally thetas.
I tried Alt+F12 in the original Century, in Times New Roman, in Arial, and in Courier New. In none of these fonts, the theta was copied.
The transferring of the source language when copying and pasting was only an unpleasant side-effect. I just prefer the short procedure of placeables. ▲ Collapse
 
Dominique Pivard
Dominique Pivard  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:17
Finnish to French
Use Wordfast Pro Oct 20, 2014

peterhans wrote:
I just prefer the short procedure of placeables.

OK, then use Wordfast Pro (or any other non-Word-based tool) and you will have all the placeables you want.
 
Terry Richards
Terry Richards
France
Local time: 07:17
French to English
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Or you can use this macro... Oct 20, 2014

Sub PasteWithoutLanguage()
'
' PasteWithoutLanguage Macro
' Macro written 20/10/2014 by Terry Richards
' unless it doesn't work. In which case I don't
' know who wrote it.
'
CurrentLanguage = Selection.LanguageID
CurrentPos = Selection.Range.Start
Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
NewPos = Selection.Range.Start
CharsPasted = NewPos - CurrentPos
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=Char... See more
Sub PasteWithoutLanguage()
'
' PasteWithoutLanguage Macro
' Macro written 20/10/2014 by Terry Richards
' unless it doesn't work. In which case I don't
' know who wrote it.
'
CurrentLanguage = Selection.LanguageID
CurrentPos = Selection.Range.Start
Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
NewPos = Selection.Range.Start
CharsPasted = NewPos - CurrentPos
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=CharsPasted, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.Range.LanguageID = CurrentLanguage
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

End Sub ▲ Collapse
 


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