Conditional tags and translation (FM and Trados)

[Reng, Winfried Dr.]

Hi,

Text which has a condition applied and is hidden is not
imported into Trados.

However table rows which have a condition applied and are
hidden do get imported.

At least that's what I noticed with our translation agency
half a year ago.

As a work-around you have to assign the condition also to
the text in such table rows.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint.com at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint.com at lists.frameusers.com
> ]On Behalf
> Of mathieu jacquet
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:45 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Conditional tags and translation (FM and Trados)
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> this is not a pure FM problem but here it is: are conditional 
> tags handled 
> by Trados's extension S-Tagger for FrameMaker?
> 
> I'm currently writing procedures to repair hydraullic motors. 
> The client has 
> large powerful motors and smaller ones. Repair procedures are somehow 
> different depending on the size of the motor, but not totally 
> different. My 
> idea was to use conditional tags (1. "big" motor size ; 2. 
> "little" motor 
> size).
> 
> We have to translate these documents into several languages 
> later, but i've 
> been said not to use conditional tags, because Trados do not 
> handle them.
> 
> You must have experienced this in the past... Any help appreciated!
> 
> Mathieu.