Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: How best to deal with an updated source file once translation is underway? Using Wf Classic.
Poster: neilmac
Post title: TLDR
[quote]Sheila Wilson wrote:
Did you take in all of Samuel's post, Neil? Maybe you'd rather not :). I've always appreciated the fact that there are at least two of us who really do mean "basic user". Some say they are and then go off into jargonese like a pro. It's embarrassing for me as I used to be a programmer back in the punched cards days, buy hey ho!
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No Sheila, I'm afraid I didn't. I tried reading it and swiftly descended into numbed incomprehension. No offence intended to anyone, but Samuel is the type of user I class as pretty expert. By this I mean that what seems elementary to him comes usually comes across as baffling technobabble to the less initiated... A bit like Sheldon in the Big Bang theory. There are other prozers who similarly fit the bill, but I'm naming no names...
Again, it's horses for courses, and anything implying much of a learning curve is usually too time-consuming for me. Even reading the WFC manual seems a bit of a slog, and it always takes me ages to find anything I happen to be looking for. However, I somehow usually manage to get by, albeit on a wing and a prayer, and deliver the goods.
For the case in point, I'd probably feel more comfortable simply translating the newly updated document from scratch, after saving what I'd translated from the previous version and hoping some of it would come up as matches.
PS: Actually, I've just had another look at Samuel's post and in hindsight it is pretty clearly explained and helpful. And now it's there for posterity, so we can come back and have another look at it later if need be… :)
Cheers Samuel ;)
[Edited at 2017-08-11 11:06 GMT]
Topic: How best to deal with an updated source file once translation is underway? Using Wf Classic.
Poster: neilmac
Post title: TLDR
[quote]Sheila Wilson wrote:
Did you take in all of Samuel's post, Neil? Maybe you'd rather not :). I've always appreciated the fact that there are at least two of us who really do mean "basic user". Some say they are and then go off into jargonese like a pro. It's embarrassing for me as I used to be a programmer back in the punched cards days, buy hey ho!
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No Sheila, I'm afraid I didn't. I tried reading it and swiftly descended into numbed incomprehension. No offence intended to anyone, but Samuel is the type of user I class as pretty expert. By this I mean that what seems elementary to him comes usually comes across as baffling technobabble to the less initiated... A bit like Sheldon in the Big Bang theory. There are other prozers who similarly fit the bill, but I'm naming no names...
Again, it's horses for courses, and anything implying much of a learning curve is usually too time-consuming for me. Even reading the WFC manual seems a bit of a slog, and it always takes me ages to find anything I happen to be looking for. However, I somehow usually manage to get by, albeit on a wing and a prayer, and deliver the goods.
For the case in point, I'd probably feel more comfortable simply translating the newly updated document from scratch, after saving what I'd translated from the previous version and hoping some of it would come up as matches.
PS: Actually, I've just had another look at Samuel's post and in hindsight it is pretty clearly explained and helpful. And now it's there for posterity, so we can come back and have another look at it later if need be… :)
Cheers Samuel ;)
[Edited at 2017-08-11 11:06 GMT]