Using Transcheck

The Transcheck option verifies certain elements in the target segments and warns you about missing or incorrect text or variables. For example, if you do not insert a tag or type incorrect text, a warning signal will appear before the target segment. You will be able to view the warning on mouse over.

Find below the procedures for the following tasks:

• Enabling Transcheck

• Viewing Transcheck warning

Enabling Transcheck

To enable Transcheck:

1. Open Wordfast Pro and click .
   The TXML perspective appears.

2. Click Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck.
   The Transcheck dialog box appears.
   
   
    

3. Select Enable Transcheck checkbox.
   The Active transcheck checkbox is activated.

4. Select Active transcheck checkbox, if you want transcheck to be activated before the translation is updated to the TM.

5. To check for specific errors in the target segments, select the different Configuration options.
   The options available are:

• Partial: compares the character count between the source and target segments. Go to Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck > Partial to enter the minimum and maximum % of allowed character count for the target segment

• Empty Target: checks for an empty target segment

• Numerical Check: compares the numerical values between the source and target segments are correct

• Tag: checks if the tags are copied correctly to the target segments

• Forbidden Chars: checks if the target segment includes forbidden characters. Go to Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck > Forbidden Chars to add the forbidden characters that should not be included in the target segment

• Punctuations: checks for consistency in punctuation between source and target segments. Go to Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck > Punctuations to add the punctuation marks that should not be included in the target segment
  Note: The punctuation transcheck only works on end of segmentation punctuation.

• Untranslatable: compares the source and target segments to check if the untranslatable content is consistent. Go to Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck > Untranslatable to add untranslatable text that must be retained in the target segment

• Copied Source Check: checks for untranslated text when copied source option is used

• Terminology Check: checks if all term translations from an active glossary are used in the target of a segment. Go to Edit > Preferences > Translations > Transcheck > Terminology to enable or disable Ignore Case option

• Blacklists: checks if the target segment includes blacklisted terms. Go to Edit > Preferences > Terminology > Blacklist to add blacklisted terms that should not be included in the target segment
  Note: The blacklisted term list must be a tab delimited file.

• First word capitalization check: checks if the first letter of the segment is capitalized.

6. Choose the display option from the drop down list. You can either view transcheck as an error or warning.

7. Click OK.
   The Transcheck option is enabled.

Viewing Transcheck warning

To view Transcheck warning:

1. Follow the steps to open a file from section Opening a file.
   The file appears in the Translation window.

2. Type the target segment.
   A warning message and a warning signal appear before the target segment as shown in the screenshot below.
   
   
    

3. Place the mouse over the warning signal.
   The text in the warning appears as shown in the screenshot below.
   
   
   
   Note: The Transcheck warning appeared because the number 101 was incorrectly typed as 102. The warning signal disappears when the segment is corrected as shown in the screenshot below.