Conditional tags and translation (FM and Trados)

[Martinek, Carla]

I send docs with up to 50 conditional tags to my translation companies.
Any conditions that are set to 'show' within the Frame file when it is
prepared as .mif are made available for translation through S-Tagger.  

If you have a translation vendor who is telling you that you cannot use
conditional tags, then you need to find another vendor who understands
the abilities of Trados.

Regards,
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Carla Martinek, Translation Coordinator/Editor
Zebra Technologies Corporation
333 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
tel: 847.793.5616   fax: 847.821.1795
cmartinek|zebra|com 

  

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+cmartinek=zebra.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+cmartinek=zebra.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of mathieu jacquet
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:45 AM
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.
 
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