Characters Counting in Segment Persoa que publicou o fío: Sarah Forget
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Sarah Forget 
Australia
Local time: 21:38
English to French
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Hi there,
I am working on a subtitling project where the translations cannot exceed 40 characters. I am trying to set up some regex in the QA settings Regex tab to define some rules that would give me an error if the number of character is higher than the limit allowed.
The other thing to mention is that each segment may be divided using \N. I am allowed 40 characters before this tag and 40 characters after this tag, i.e. up to 80 characters per segment, but never more ... See more Hi there,
I am working on a subtitling project where the translations cannot exceed 40 characters. I am trying to set up some regex in the QA settings Regex tab to define some rules that would give me an error if the number of character is higher than the limit allowed.
The other thing to mention is that each segment may be divided using \N. I am allowed 40 characters before this tag and 40 characters after this tag, i.e. up to 80 characters per segment, but never more than 40 for each part of the segment.
I have set up my QA settings as follows but it doesn't seem to be working.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6fyujbafbzx7bab/AACvgh08ppmHyXzOFMhTNAata?dl=0
The Regex I wrote are:
\N[aA-zZ,\.-/d/s?!]{40,100}$
^[aA-zZ,\.-/d/s?!]{40,100}\N
Does anyone have experience with this regex tab and could tell me what i am doing wrong?
Thank you,
Sarah ▲ Collapse
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:38
English to Russian
| \N = new line | Apr 29, 2017 |
Hi Sarah,
Unfortunately, I cannot help with a magic regex combination, but I would like to propose a workaround.
memoQ shows the total number of characters in its downmost panel, last section.
It may look like this: 131+1/157+1
where
131 stands for the total number of chars in source,
157 stands for the total number of chars in target,
+1 stands for the total number of tags (if any) in source or target.
So you can see the chars count on the ... See more Hi Sarah,
Unfortunately, I cannot help with a magic regex combination, but I would like to propose a workaround.
memoQ shows the total number of characters in its downmost panel, last section.
It may look like this: 131+1/157+1
where
131 stands for the total number of chars in source,
157 stands for the total number of chars in target,
+1 stands for the total number of tags (if any) in source or target.
So you can see the chars count on the go, witout using QA.
On the other hand, \N indicates "new line".
I would split the \N segment for translation, keeping in mind that the newly splitted segment with \N may have 42 chars as a maximum (40+"\N"), and then (once translated) merge these two segments back again.
Definitely, not that comfortable as it might be with regex or other solution, but still you can see the number of characters on the go.
[Edited at 2017-04-29 23:08 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | QA setting for this purpose | Apr 29, 2017 |
Hello,
I think the following setting will meet your needs:
Resource console > QA Settings > Segments and terms > Segment length > Warn if translation is longer than (characters).
And if you confirm a "non-compliant" translation, you will see the lightening mark just below the match score (on the right side of the source/target segment).
Cheers,
[Edited at 2017-04-29 19:02 GMT]
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:38
English to Russian
| Re: QA setting for this purpose | Apr 30, 2017 |
MaxOO, did you read the original post?
If yes, how do I make memoQ recognize when characters "may not exceed 40" and when they "may not exceed 80" as need may be? I experience the same problem and would appreciate any such idea either.
P.S. Well, ok. You may suggest that I treat such 80-character segments as exclusions. Then next question is: how do I know it is 40+40, but not 70+10? Count characters one by one from the beginning of a segment to \N?
[Edited at 2017-05-0... See more MaxOO, did you read the original post?
If yes, how do I make memoQ recognize when characters "may not exceed 40" and when they "may not exceed 80" as need may be? I experience the same problem and would appreciate any such idea either.
P.S. Well, ok. You may suggest that I treat such 80-character segments as exclusions. Then next question is: how do I know it is 40+40, but not 70+10? Count characters one by one from the beginning of a segment to \N?
[Edited at 2017-05-01 01:52 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Sarah Forget
Australia
Local time: 21:38
English to French
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INICIO DE TEMA | Not accurate enough | May 2, 2017 |
Thank you Stepan for your answer. This is the solution that I am using at the moment but it is not accurate enough for my liking. I really want to quickly see if I am exceeding the number of characters allowed for each line (not overall).
Although splitting at the \N would be ideal for checking the characters, I cannot split the segments that way as it would restrict the translation in a way that will not take into account the full subtitle.
I am pretty sure that a rege... See more Thank you Stepan for your answer. This is the solution that I am using at the moment but it is not accurate enough for my liking. I really want to quickly see if I am exceeding the number of characters allowed for each line (not overall).
Although splitting at the \N would be ideal for checking the characters, I cannot split the segments that way as it would restrict the translation in a way that will not take into account the full subtitle.
I am pretty sure that a regex can do the job, my only problem is that I am just starting with MemoQ and am not familiar enough with how to customise it. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Sarah Forget
Australia
Local time: 21:38
English to French
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INICIO DE TEMA | QA setting doesn't work for this specific case | May 2, 2017 |
Hi MaxOO,
I already have that QA setting set up for anything longer than 80 characters however, as per Stepan's comment above, it doesn't tell me if a line is over 40 characters.
Sarah
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