Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Where/what is the WYSIWYG interface in WF Pro 4?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: What WYSIWIG means in CAT tools
[quote]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"? [/quote]
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]
Topic: Where/what is the WYSIWYG interface in WF Pro 4?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: What WYSIWIG means in CAT tools
[quote]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"? [/quote]
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]