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Alternating between plain text and WYSIWYG in SDL Trados Studio


Depending on the content we're working with and our own preferences, we may want to see only plain text or fully-formatted text in Studio's editor view. Thankfully, switching between the two is easy. Consider the example below, where we have a Word file with some formatting.

Which Studio view would be more comfortable while working on the file: the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view on the left or the plain text view on the right? Whichever we prefer, we can get there in a matter of seconds.
To choose how the text will be displayed in the Editor, we go to File - Options - Editor - Formatting display style. These are the default settings:


The default is to "Show formatting but hide recognized formatting tags", so we get this (Adapt Font Sizes is disabled in this example to show variations in text size):


I personally don't like having all the tags hidden, as I find that it's easy to accidentally skip or     delete a tag. So, to add the formatting tags to the above view, we can either change to "Show all formatting and tags" in File - Options - Editor - Formatting display style, as shown here...


...or we can simply click the "Toggle formatting tag display" button in the View tab - Options group. This button is only active when "Show formatting but hide recognized formatting tags" or "Show all formatting and tags" have been chosen in the Editor options.


If we find the colored text hard to read or would rather have plain text for whatever reason, then we have a third option: "Show all tags but do not show formatting".


Here's what we get with this setting: plain text with formatting tags.



Increasing Font Size

So far so good, color contrast is no longer a problem in this last view, but the text is still too small to work comfortably (at least for me!). To adjust the text, we can use the "Adapt Font Sizes" button in the View tab and then increase or decrease text size to a comfortable level.



A Word about Tag View Options

Choosing our tag view options is also a matter of personal preference. In addition to the "No Tag Text" options shown above, we have three more, that we can easily switch among from the View tab, Options group.

Partial Tag Text

This is a view I use very rarely, as I find that most of the time it doesn't give me enough information to be as useful as the other views.


Full Tag Text















This view gives us the most information, but it can also lead to a cluttered segment, so I use it sparingly, and will often activate it only for specific checks rather than keeping it on all the time.

Tag Id










This is my preferred tag view. It allows me to quickly check that the tag pairs are correctly placed in the translation. To learn more about tags, don't miss Paul Filkin's article  Simple guide to working with Tags in Studio.

Once we become familiar with these options, we can quickly switch views while we work, to suit our needs and preferences.










четверг, 16 июля 2015 г.

Studio 2015: AutoSuggest Gets Even Better

Studio 2015 comes with significant updates to the AutoSuggest feature, which will be a welcome productivity enhancement for users.

Translation Memory and Automated Translation Suggestions in Studio 2015

In addition to Termbases, AutoSuggest Dictionaries and AutoText, Studio 2015 includes a new AutoSuggest provider: Translation Memory and Automated Translation.*

* For Automated Translation suggestions to be provided, an automated translation provider, such as Google Translate, must be added to the list of Translation Memories.


Depending on the settings we choose, we can get suggestions that are 100% matches, fuzzy matches and concordance matches that come from our very own TMs.

To access the new settings, we will find a new node under Options - AutoSuggest, where we can set our preferences.


Above, I have chosen a value of 1 under "Minimum number of characters typed before displaying suggestions" to get the most matches. A setting of 1 under "Minimum suggestion length in words" will result in many more matches than a setting of 3, for example, as it's a less restrictive criterion.

The best settings for these thresholds will depend on personal preferences and the extent of our resources. With a well-populated termbase and TM, for example, low thresholds in these settings (1 character typed, 1-word suggestions) may result in many duplicates in our suggestion list, as, for example, one-word terms that already exist in the termbase and in the AutoSuggest dictionary will also be offered as Translation Memory autosuggestions, as shown in the (extreme) example below. As a disclaimer, please note that the AutoText entry would only appear after the first four letters have been typed, so, in fact, after typing the first letter, only the first three suggestions would be offered.


With this new AutoSuggest provider, even a user who has no termbases, no AutoSuggest dictionaries and no Auto Text entries will benefit from AutoSuggest, as suggestions are offered from existing and newly added translation units, and are updated on-the-fly, as translation units are confirmed.

For the examples below, I have disabled Termbases, AutoSuggest Dictionaries and AutoText from the list of AutoSuggest providers to simulate a scenario where the only resource available to the user is the TM.


For segment 1 there are fuzzy matches in the TM, so AutoSuggest offers a fuzzy match in the list of suggestions when I type the letter "v".



Since segment 5 has no exact or fuzzy matches in the TM, AutoSuggest offers concordance matches* and automated translation suggestions as soon as I type the first letter for the segment.


*The setting that determines this behavior can be found under Options - Editor - Concordance Search Window. If this option is not checked, auto concordance is disabled and therefore AutoSuggest will not offer any concordance suggestions.


AutoSuggest in Action

The 'magic' of AutoSuggest is best appreciated in action, so below you'll find a video showing how it works.



This is definitely one of my favorite features in Studio 2015!



вторник, 30 июня 2015 г.

The New Bilingual Excel File Type in Studio 2015

With the new Bilingual Excel file type in Studio 2015, we can extract text from a specific column for translation and have Studio insert the translated text into a different column in the target file. No more cutting and pasting!

Note: File type and filter are sometimes used interchangeably, so Bilingual Excel file type and Bilingual Excel filter refer to the same thing in this post.

What It Does

Here's a typical use scenario.


The regular Excel file type produces the following Studio file, with all the content extracted for translation.





The resulting target file of the above would be an exact copy of the source file, but with all the text replaced by the translations.

With the new Bilingual Excel file type, however, only the text I need will be extracted for translation.



And the resulting target file will have the translations inserted in Column F, while the rest of the text remains intact, as shown below.



How to Use It

First things first: For any projects created with a pre-2015 version of Studio, the Bilingual Excel file type will need to be added manually by clicking on the "Additional installed File Types exist" link, and checking the new file type checkbox, as shown here.



Are the files in the correct order?
A key thing to keep in mind to make this work is that Studio will process your Excel file with whatever filter it finds first, so if the Bilingual Excel file type comes before the regular Excel file type in the list, the Bilingual Excel file type will be used to process your file, but if it comes after the regular Excel file type, then the regular Excel filter will be used. So, to make sure Studio uses the Bilingual Excel filter, you can either make sure it comes before the regular Excel filter in the list or you can disable the regular Excel file type.

Go to File - Options - File Types





Important note: There are two places where you can make this change.

1. If you make it by going to Options - File Types (as shown in the screenshots above), this change will affect future projects and single-document flows, but not existing projects.

2. If you make it by going to Project Settings - File Types, the change will only affect your active project.

This gives you the ability to enable the Bilingual Excel file type only for a specific project without changing how Studio handles Excel files in general.

Once the file type is enabled, it's time to look at the settings. For my example above, I set the source column to E and the translation column to F and chose to confirm any existing translations that may already be in column F.


After clicking OK, you would process your file as usual. Keep in mind that any changes made to Project Settings or Options will be applied to files that are processed after the changes, not to existing files, so if you've made this change after a file had been added to a project and prepared, you would need to remove the file, add it and prepare it again for the new settings to go into effect.


Limitations
Note: This section has been edited to clarify how cell and text-level formatting are handled.
A limitation of this first version of the Bilingual Excel filter is that text-level formatting (e.g. bold, italics, font, color applied to individual words or phrases) is not recognized. Cell formatting, however, can be preserved by unchecking the "Preserve Target Style" checkbox in the file type settings, as shown below. Note that in this example, column C has been marked as containing comments.


This is the source file to be used in this example. Rows 2 and 5 in Column A have cell formatting applied to them. For the rest of the cells, formatting was applied at text level.



Here's the above file, processed with the bilingual file type and with the settings shown earlier. Note that there are no formatting tags in the source column.

Now let's have a look at the resulting target file.



So, as we can see, formatting that applies to the entire cell is transferred over to the target column, but since we have no tags to help us indicate the formatting of individual words or word groups, text-level formatting cannot be preserved.

Let's compare now how the same text looks when processed through the regular Excel filter.


Here we get full control over text formatting tags, so it's easy to duplicate source formatting.

Another limitation of the bilingual file type is that there are no embedded content settings for this file type. For most regular jobs, however, this may not even be an issue.

In conclusion, choosing the right Excel file type to use will depend on the specific use case at hand. While heavily-formatted files may still call for the regular Excel filter, there will be other files with little or no formatting that will be perfect for the new Bilingual Excel filter. 








Google made it Easier to Add Analytics in Blogger

Hello friends! After a long time I’m again writing a new post here. Actually I was busy in completing my graduation. Today in this post I’ll show you, how to add Google Analytics on Blogger.

how to add google analytis to blogger

We all know that blogger is a free weblog tools by Google. And Google really have a satisfied way to connect blogger blog with Google Analytics.

A Few Things:

I assume that when you are landing on this page you are a blogger/blogspot user. And I hope you have fair knowledge about it. So I’m not goanna make this post any longer by describing it here. But if you want to read more about blogger click here.

Now what is Google Analytics? Yeah I’m goanna give you a fair knowledge about Google analytics in short. If you already do know about Google Analytics you can skip this point and proceed in the next steps.
We can easily understand the literally meaning of Analytics. But here Google Analytics is used for something different. Now let me describe you. You got a website or blog, and want to see the basic data (visitors, pageviews, currently online, visitor’s source, details about audience and so on) Google Analytics is the complete solution for your problem. Now only website or blog you can also keep your eyes on mobile app too.


Setting Up Google Analytics for Blogger:

Google owned both Blogger & Analytics so it should be easy to add analytics for blogger blog. And yes it is. Now I’ll show you the complete process of adding Google Analytics in Blogger.

Step 1:

First click on “www.google.com/analytics/”. There you will be land on analytic page. Now from right top corner click on “Access Google Analytics”. (You should keep login with a gmail id)

access google analytics


Step 2:

Here another new page will appear click on “Sign up” from right top side again.

google analytics sign up


Step 3:

After clicking Sign up google will take you on a new page, where you have to fill all required form with valid information. And then click on “Get Tracking ID”. See the screenshot below for better understanding.

google analytics new account


Step 4:

Here Google will ask you to accept Google Analytics Terms of Service. Click on “I Accept”.

accept google terms of service


Step 5:

Here in this step you have to copy generated unique tracking ID for your newly created property. Select and copy the ID for next step.

google analytics tracking id


Step 6:

This is the final step of linking analytics account with blogger.
Log in to your blogger account, select your blog (if you have multiple), then click Settings > Others
Now from bottom side of the page in Google Analytics section paste the Tracking ID that you have copied from previous step.
Finally hit the “Save Settings” button in the top corner.

blogger google analytics settings


Final Word:

Friends this was the easiest way to linking analytic property with blogger blog. There’s also a alternative and that can be done by dropping tracking code in your template’s head section. But I don’t see any necessity to go for that, when google giving us the easiest solution.

In this post I have tried my best to make it much understandable. I’ve attached screenshot for every individual step. So it will be much easy for newbies to understand. So guys if you really enjoyed this post and it helped you then please consider few seconds to share this on your social profiles. Thanks in advance.
пятница, 26 июня 2015 г.

How To Add Social Content Locker Widget in Blogger

There are large number of professional Bloggers who mainly use some popular social media sites for boosting their blog traffic. It is extremely difficult to get social exposure quickly. If you also want to increase your blog traffic from these sites then you need some good amount of followers on your fan page, so today we will going to share amazing widgets that help you to increase your blog fans on social media followers. With this method you can hide any part of your content with social buttons.

After using multiple Social sharing widget in your blogger. Well, in that case you have to drive your readers to like your content and share it. This is likely the best means to increase your social media traffic. Well, This Social Content Locker allows you to lock Only a small part of your content until a user clicks one the social buttons (Tweet, G+, Facebook Like). Whenever anyone shares your post then content will be automatically displayed. By using this way you get more tweets, likes and shares. You should give them a reason to share or like your content. This will help in getting huge traffic as well as exposure.


How to Create a Social Content Locker in Blogger Blog.

We will go to share this amazing widget with all of you. method of adding this amazing widget.


Just follow the following instructions.






 I hope you this tutorial will still help you to reach socially and boost your traffic. 
среда, 24 июня 2015 г.

Tracking Microlearning with Tin Can API

This is an interesting article written by Tadej Stanic. According to him,

"Learning analytics is one of the holy grails of today’s eLearning industry. It is a part of the Internet mainstream called big-data and Tin Can API or xAPI, as a relativity new technical standard, is introducing this mainstream to online learning. With this article I’ll share some thoughts on how microlearning and Tin Can API might be the key factors of the future learning."

Website: http://elearningindustry.com/tracking-microlearning-with-tin-can-api



воскресенье, 21 июня 2015 г.

Using WeBWorK questions in Moodle quizzes -- the Moodle/WeBWorK question bridge

This is a copy of a post that I made to the Moodle forum on Quizzes.

I’m happy to announce a version of WeBWorK that can serve mathematics questions via a Moodle quiz.  This gives a tighter connection between Moodle and WeBWorK, allowing students to work exclusively with the Moodle quiz interface while WeBWorK produces the mathematics questions and processes the student answers in the background.  The result is similar to using STACK to produce and process mathematics questions.

This is a first attempt at realizing the question level WeBWorK-Moodle bridge which I proposed in this forum in my earlier post last January ( https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=277922) and on my blog (http://michaelgage.blogspot.com/2015/01/connecting-webwork-to-moodle-2xs.html )

It makes most of the 25K+ mathematics questions written for WeBWorK’s OpenProblemLibrary (http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Open_Problem_Library) available for use in Moodle quizzes as well.  The OPL began with questions designed for single and multivariable calculus courses (and that is still the majority of the collection) but has expanded in both up and down to include questions for linear algebra and differential equations, complex variables, operations research, and statistics; as well as precalculus and developmental mathematics problems and many other math subjects.

To see this Moodle/WeBWorK connection in action,  view the Moodle course for linear algebra and differential equations at (https://devel3.webwork.rochester.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=21).  You will need to login as “visitor”, using the password “visitor” in order to view the quizzes. (Guests are not allowed to view Moodle quizzes.)

This is  a mockup of the matrix algebra/ODE course which I taught in 2009 using the Moodle/WeBWorK assignment connection (which presents an entire homework assignment using the WeBWorK interface).  In each week  you’ll see the original WeBWorK assignment that I used (the icon is a yellow spider web on blue background) and near it the Moodle Quiz version of the same assignment.  Try each of them to get a comparison between the WeBWorK/Moodle assignment bridge and the new WeBWorK/Moodle question bridge.

I have set the behavior of the Moodle Quiz so that it closely approximates the original WeBWorK assignment.  These assignments are meant primarily for homework/practice not for normative assessment.  The student can retry each question as often as she wishes and if there are several answer blanks then evaluation is given separately for each blank.

The Moodle portion of this bridge is built on the Opaque question type module implemented by Tim Hunt for interfacing with webservice test engines.  I am indebted to Tim for help and advice while I was implementing this Moodle/WeBWorK question interface.

Information for installing and configuring the Moodle Opaque question type is available on github at https://github.com/moodleou.  Specifically you need the opaque qtype module:  https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-qtype_opaque and the opaque behaviour module:  https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-qbehaviour_opaque.  

I’ll provide more detailed suggestions for creating your own Moodle/WeBWorK questions later but for those somewhat familiar with both WeBWorK and Moodle here is the short explanation.
1. You create a new Opaque engine pointing to the url: https://devel3.webwork.rochester.edu/opaqueserver_wsdl and set the question bank URL for the engine to https://devel3.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/spring09mth165 .
2. For each question the questionID should be the same as the path of a WeBWorK problem in the OpenProblemLibrary with the following replacements.
The initial segment should be “library” instead of “Library”, each slash is replaced by two underscores, and each hyphen is replaced by three underscores. (This is required in order to conform to the Opaque client naming scheme.)
For example:
Library/Rochester/setAlgebra01RealNumbers/lhp1_31-34_mo.pg
is obtained using the questionID:
library__Rochester__setAlgebra01RealNumbers__lhp1_31___34_mo.pg

For those who are really impatient the WeBWorK server function is provided by adding the project opaque_server along side a standard WeBWorK course. The Opaque Server can be found at (https://github.com/mgage/opaque_server) along with minimal documentation for installing.   That repo will be moved to the standard WeBWorK github site (https://github.com/openwebwork) after further testing (and after the documentation has been expanded).

This is the first version of the Moodle/WeBWorK question bridge so the behavior may change slightly in the future.  Because STACK and WeBWorK are already very similar I would be interested in creating a question type that was interchangeable between the two background mathematics engines.  Instructors would be able to mix STACK and WeBWorK questions in the same quiz in such a way that it was invisible (or nearly invisible) to students which engine was handling the question.

Your comments are welcome.

-- Mike Gage, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

пятница, 19 июня 2015 г.

Advanced SEO Guide for Blogger/Blogspot Blogs

Take a look at BloggerTipsTricks.net Introducing Beginner' s Guide to Blogging that has amazing tutorials to guide you through Blogger.
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