Prepare documents for translation into dual-language format (i.e. containing source side by side with its translation).
This tool is part of TransTools+
Note: Dual Language Document Assistant is included in TransTools+ version 2. Upgrade by downloading the latest version.
Dual-Language Document Assistant helps you prepare source documents for translation in dual-language (source+target language) format. It provides tools that duplicate the source text in two formats:
(1) two-column table,
(2) text separated with a special separator, e.g. slash ( / ) or line break.
Dual-Language Document Assistant provides tools to prepare a single-language document for translation in dual-language format
Note: a tool by the same name is also included in TransTools (see Dual-Language Document Assistant [TransTools]). The TransTools+ tool covered in this post is an enhanced version of the tool included in TransTools, offering better user interface, keyboard shortcut support, ability to skip non-translatable paragraphs with the text tool, and other productivity improvements. It is recommended to use this tool instead of the TransTools version.
Features
- The Table Tool converts source text into a two-column table with identical text in both columns, with one column highlighted in a selected highlight color in order to hide it from the CAT tool using Hide / Unhide Text tool. By hiding one of these columns before importing the document into your CAT tool, you will be able to translate the document in a CAT tool and then produce a dual-language document. A two-column table is the most common format for dual-language documents.
- The Text Tool duplicates source text in selected paragraphs by inserting a delimiter (slash /, line break, paragraph break) and a copy of the source text at the end of each paragraph. One side is automatically highlighted in a selected highlight color in order to hide it from the CAT tool using Hide / Unhide Text tool. Text separated with a delimiter will allow you to produce dual-language structure in section headings, tables, headers/footers, etc., even when you use a two-column table for most of the document text.
- Numerous options that allow you to tweak table column widths and border thickness, indentation, highlight color, whether a separate table row is created for each paragraph or for all selected text, etc.
- You can assign keyboard shortcuts to the Table Tool and the Text Tool in order to prepare documents faster.
- The Text Tool has flexible settings for skipping paragraphs that should not be duplicated, e.g. numeric paragraphs.
- You can now mark the source text as hidden text automatically as you convert text to dual-language format.
Dual-Language Document Assistant in action: screenshots
Tools for dual-language translation
TransTools
- Dual-Language Document Assistant – prepare documents for translation into dual-language format
Tools for partial (selective) translation
TransTools+
- Hide / Unhide Text – mark text as non-translatable in order to hide it from your CAT tool or convert it into tags
TransTools
- Hide / Unhide Text – mark text as non-translatable in order to hide it from your CAT tool