CafeTran

I'm translating a Word document containing several tables, where each segment (corresponding to a new table cell) starts with tag 1. But, in some cases CTE places this tag to the end of the segment instead, like this:

When running the QA tag check, no error is detected, but upon exporting the file I get this:

That is, the wrongly placed  tag 1 appends "Beni patrimoniali" to the previous cell (together with "Importi") instead in the correct position which is marked by the red arrow in the picture above.

This means that the QA Tag check function is not working properly, right?

Can this be fixed, please?

I can see only two tag-related checks under QA: one is "Tags check", which I've used, and the other one is "At Tags spaces check", which doesn't seem related to my issue because there are no spaces at the beginning or the end of those sentences.

What am i missing, please?

The second one should find these tag errors. Perhaps the name should be adapted to Tags at word boundary check?

I tried, and only "Trailing space check" seems to work, although (at least by its name) this is supposed to look for spaces only, not tags. Actually, this check would find both issues, although it's not always clear which one is which.

You are right about changing the name to "Tags at word boundary check", that is cloning the "Trailing space check" and name it "Tags at word boundary check" (to be run first).

Will Igor agree?

>I tried, and only "Trailing space check" seems to work

Ah, now I remember: in certain Trados projects (e.g. the ones created from Schema ST4 projects), you have to run both leading and trailing space checks. This is because, by default, CafeTran Espresso hides tags at the start and end of segments.

Actually, I have macro that adjusts leading and trailing spaces when moving to the next segment.

Long story short: it is good advice to always run all checks (except for the length checks, I guess).

Hans: This is because, by default, CafeTran Espresso hides tags at the start and end of segments

Me: In the present case, I have many source segments with one tag only placed at the beginning, and both "Hide segment boundary tags" and "Merge adjacent tags" are unchecked.

This should mean that this only tag is marking the beginning of a table cell, and if misplaced it causes a cell to be merged with the previous one. You figure what mess it can create on a financial report if the tag position check is not implemented properly to cater for this kind of error too.

Thank you for the explanation, which I hope to remember for the next project.

Since there is no official operating manual, it would be nice if a sort of pop-up explanation were given for each menu setting, especially when they are likely to cause problems.