error : several consecutive whitespaces Thread poster: Angel Llacuna
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I get the error : several consecutive whitespaces when saving a segment and I don't know why, since the spaces are also on the source. this is the segment in question (source above and target below): | | |
Several consecutive whitespaces are considered an error, no matter if they are there in the source as well. So if you know that they are there with a purpose (for example because they were there in the source), just ignore the message. Probably you can turn this feature off in the QA settings. | | | Angel Llacuna Spain Local time: 01:27 English to Spanish TOPIC STARTER Perhaps it could be posiible that ... | Jan 26, 2018 |
the whitespaces on the source are in fact tab characters. How can I insert tab characters on the target ? (not directly with the tab key, since this key toggles between the source and target) | | | MemoQ suggestion to avoid that ignored | Jan 26, 2018 |
Francisca van der Veen is right. I wouldn't switch off this QA check, though, as it is generally useful. You can choose to ignore all similar QA alerts in one go on the QA results screen. About a couple of years ago I suggested to the MemoQ team to make this check more intelligent, so that it isn't triggered in situations like this, where the consecutive white spaces are in the source already, although some instances could be errors in the source. With some intelligent logic, it oug... See more Francisca van der Veen is right. I wouldn't switch off this QA check, though, as it is generally useful. You can choose to ignore all similar QA alerts in one go on the QA results screen. About a couple of years ago I suggested to the MemoQ team to make this check more intelligent, so that it isn't triggered in situations like this, where the consecutive white spaces are in the source already, although some instances could be errors in the source. With some intelligent logic, it ought to be possible to reduce the number of irrelevant white space alerts. However, as with every other suggestion submitted to Kilgray, it has been ignored. ▲ Collapse | |
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Angel Llacuna Spain Local time: 01:27 English to Spanish TOPIC STARTER How can I .... | Jan 26, 2018 |
insert tab characters on the target ? (not possible with the tab key) | | | Copying tags from source into target | Jan 26, 2018 |
Usually, if there are tabs in the source text like in your example, you can carry over the tabs (applies to all tags) by pressing F9. If there is no tab in memoQ in the source, I doubt that there is one (correctly set) in the original source file format. However, should you need to insert an additional tab into the target instead of several consecutive whitespaces you can highlight the red tab tag in the source, copy it and paste it into the target. (This way, you'll get... See more Usually, if there are tabs in the source text like in your example, you can carry over the tabs (applies to all tags) by pressing F9. If there is no tab in memoQ in the source, I doubt that there is one (correctly set) in the original source file format. However, should you need to insert an additional tab into the target instead of several consecutive whitespaces you can highlight the red tab tag in the source, copy it and paste it into the target. (This way, you'll get rid of the "consecutive whitespaces" QA message, but instead one reagrding "number of tags is different in source and target" will appear.) ▲ Collapse | | | Angel Llacuna Spain Local time: 01:27 English to Spanish TOPIC STARTER how do you highlight the red tab tag in the source ? | Jan 26, 2018 |
Connect4 wrote: Usually, if there are tabs in the source text like in your example, you can carry over the tabs (applies to all tags) by pressing F9. If there is no tab in memoQ in the source, I doubt that there is one (correctly set) in the original source file format. However, should you need to insert an additional tab into the target instead of several consecutive whitespaces you can highlight the red tab tag in the source, copy it and paste it into the target. (This way, you'll get rid of the "consecutive whitespaces" QA message, but instead one reagrding "number of tags is different in source and target" will appear.) | | | rsch Germany Local time: 01:27 Spanish to German + ... Copying tags | Jan 27, 2018 |
Dear Angel, My apologies, I accidentally commented from the company's account yesterday. Apparently, copying something from source into target manually is only possible in the memoQ Project Manager edition. As a workaround, you could copy the tab tags with F9 into target and highlight and copy a tag in the target. However, my experience is that memoQ's tag recognition is quite good, so I still wonder if the tab is set correctly in the source file in the orig... See more Dear Angel, My apologies, I accidentally commented from the company's account yesterday. Apparently, copying something from source into target manually is only possible in the memoQ Project Manager edition. As a workaround, you could copy the tab tags with F9 into target and highlight and copy a tag in the target. However, my experience is that memoQ's tag recognition is quite good, so I still wonder if the tab is set correctly in the source file in the original format in your example. Hope this helps. ▲ Collapse | |
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Neil Ashby Spain Local time: 01:27 Spanish to English + ... Ctrl + Insert - copy the whole segment and just translate the source text | Jan 27, 2018 |
Hi Angel, An easy solution is just to press Ctrl + Insert and it will copy the whole segment from the source to the target. Then translate over the source text ("Job profile", in your present case). Similarly you can just highlight the "tab" space or a tag, or whatever you want to copy from the source text, and press Ctrl + C to copy it, and then Ctrl + V to paste it into the target segment. By the way, I don't think F9 inserts "tab" spaces as suggested by rsch, i... See more Hi Angel, An easy solution is just to press Ctrl + Insert and it will copy the whole segment from the source to the target. Then translate over the source text ("Job profile", in your present case). Similarly you can just highlight the "tab" space or a tag, or whatever you want to copy from the source text, and press Ctrl + C to copy it, and then Ctrl + V to paste it into the target segment. By the way, I don't think F9 inserts "tab" spaces as suggested by rsch, it only inserts "TAGS"... ;@) ▲ Collapse | | | Angel Llacuna Spain Local time: 01:27 English to Spanish TOPIC STARTER I did that, and the error persists | Jan 28, 2018 |
Neil Ashby wrote: An easy solution is just to press Ctrl + Insert and it will copy the whole segment from the source to the target. Then translate over the source text ("Job profile", in your present case). | | |
Angel Llacuna wrote: ... the error persists As Francisca was saying: "Several consecutive whitespaces are considered an error, no matter if they are there in the source as well." So, for instance, since you seem to have a lot of consecutive white spaces between the "rpr" tags in your source, you'll still be getting the "several consecutive whitespaces" warning. Quoting Thomas, "You can choose to ignore all similar QA alerts in one go on the QA results screen", although that means you would be ignoring both false positives and "real" instances of that issue. Plus, I would advise against replacing simple white spaces with other characters, as that would not only just generate a different type of warning, but, more importantly, because in so doing you would be creating a discrepancy between source and target. | | | Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:27 English to Russian If you consider it worthy | Jan 29, 2018 |
you can convert your spaces into tags. For example, if you have 5 consecutive spaces everywhere, use Regex Tagger to tell memoQ to replace 5 consecutive spaces with one tag. However, memoQ normally shows tabs as tags by default. How come that tabs from original now turned into spaces in memoQ? | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » error : several consecutive whitespaces Wordfast Pro | Translation Memory Software for Any Platform
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