tables and translation

[Combs, Richard]

Andersen, Verner wrote:
 
> When we translated our manual from English to German via the Trados
> translation workbench it turned out that many of columns in tables
were
> too small. The result was that a letter or two wre placed in line two
of
> the column.
> 
> I fixed this in the files I received from the translator but would
like
> to fix it in my English source so that I won't have to do this again
in
> the next release.
> My plan was to open a copy ofthe English files and manually compare
all
> tables with those in the German files.
> 
> Originally I used tables from the table designer by I  fear that many
of
> them habe been manually modified.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions about how to handle the task?
> I know that a Framescript can solve the issue, I am in doubt whether
it
> will be too costly compared to the one time manual work.

You don't need FrameScript. Get Rick Quatro's TableCleaner plugin: 

http://frameexpert.com/plugins/tablecleaner/index.htm 

Its Resize Table Columns command should make quick work of your problem.
Check it out here: 

http://frameexpert.com/plugins/tablecleaner/resizetablecolumns.htm

That said, it seems to me that a competent localization vendor would
take care of that for you. Ours does. Of course, I'm sure the cost is
built into bid. :-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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