Markup tags example

An example that shows how Trados Studio handles markup tags.

The following source asset is translated against an empty TM in Studio, using the tags in the translation:
<html><body>
<p>Today is a <b>sunny<\b> day.</p>
</body></html>
Then, the following source asset is translated against the TM produced by the previous step:
<html><body>
<p>Today is a <b>sunny<\b> day.</p>
<p>Today is a sunny day.</p>
<p>Today is a <b>sunny day<\b>.</p>
<p>Today is a <em>sunny day<\em>.</p>
<p><b>Today<\b> is a <b>sunny<\b> day.</p>
</body></html>
In Studio, this leads to the following translated asset: An image that shows a document with markup tags translated in Trados Studio.
  1. The first segment is a copy of the originally translated segment.
  2. The second segment has all memory tags deleted, triggering the missing formatting penalty.
  3. In the third segment, the closing tag was moved, resulting in a 96% match.
  4. In the fourth segment, the original boldface formatting was changed to emphasis, which still leads to a 100% match, because the actual tag contents are taken from the asset and auto-substituted into the translation.
  5. In the fifth segment, an additional tag was introduced and the different formatting penalty was applied once.