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Where/what is the WYSIWYG interface in WF Pro 4?
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Anne Brackenborough (X)
Anne Brackenborough (X)  Identity Verified
Germany
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May 3, 2016

Hi, maybe I have got the wrong end of the stick here, but I thought you could edit translations in WF Pro 4 as a proper text, not as a series of boxes. Have I misunderstood the meaning of "WYSIWYG interface", or just not worked out where it is?

(Using Windows 10.)



[Edited at 2016-05-03 13:28 GMT]
 
Lori Cirefice
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I think it means... May 3, 2016

You don't have to handle tags as much as before... you can directly bold/italicize etc. It will look bold etc in the target text instead of being surrounded by formatting tags.
 
Samuel Murray
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What WYSIWIG means in CAT tools May 3, 2016

Anne Koth wrote:
I thought you could edit translations in WF Pro 4 as a proper text, not as a series of boxes. Have I misunderstood the meaning of "WYSIWYG interface"?


The only current CAT tools that offer WYSIWYG in the true, original sense of the word, are Wordfast Classic, Metatexis and Felix. Very old versions of Trados also offered it.

All other tools that claim to offer "WYSIWYG" actually mean that you can see the character formatting instead of tags, and that you can apply character formatting directly, i.e. bold text as bold, underlined text as underlined, etc... but it's still just boxes, and you can't see layout.


[Edited at 2016-05-03 14:35 GMT]
 
Anne Brackenborough (X)
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Germany
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Ah, I see, thanks... May 3, 2016

I was hoping for a bit too much there
 
CafeTran Training (X)
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Fluency and Transit May 3, 2016

Samuel Murray wrote:

The only current CAT tools that offer WYSIWYG in the true, original sense of the word, are Wordfast Classic, Metatexis and Felix. Very old versions of Trados also offered it.


I think this applies to Fluency and Transit (in its wysiwyg view) too. Transit can show tables, character formatting etc. And it can have a synced PDF of the source.

[Edited at 2016-05-03 15:47 GMT]

[Edited at 2016-05-03 15:49 GMT]
 


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