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Editing the Ordinal Followers list

When identifying untranslatable content and segmenting text, Trados Studio uses a list of ordinal followers for each language This list ensures that ordinal followers are treated as placeables and that they do not incorrectly trigger a segment break after the full stop. Ordinal followers are not relevant for all languages, but are is particularly useful for the German language.

About this task

Considering the date expressed in German as 15. Oktober, if Oktober were not in the list of ordinal followers, "15." would denote the end of a segment and Oktober would start another segment.

The Ordinal Followers list is stored in the language resources of your translation memory (TM). To add your own ordinal followers to the list, edit the default language resource of your TM.

You can edit the language resource for an existing TM in the Translation Memories view. Alternatively, you can also create a language resource template with a custom Ordinal Followers list that you can then apply to all future project TMs.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Translation Memories view.
  2. Identify the TM or the language resource template for which you want to customize the Ordinal Followers list.
    • to make changes to a TM, expand Translation Memories, right-click the TM and select Settings > Language Resources.
    • to make changes to a language resource template, expand the Language Resource Template, right-click the TM and select Settings.
  3. In the table, identify the language for which you want to customize the ordinal followers. Identify the Ordinal Follower List column and click in the appropriate language cell.
  4. In the Ordinal Followers dialog, double click-an existing item to edit it, or add your own ordinal followers:
    • to add items one-by-one, type the text for the ordinal follower and click . Add as many items as needed and click OK.
    • to bulk transfer an existing list of ordinal followers, click Import. Make sure your import file is a .TXT file, with one ordinal follower per line. Trados Studio removes any duplicate entries in the import file. Items that already exist in the language resource list will be removed.
  5. Select OK to close the Ordinal Followers dialog.
    Trados Studio saves your new ordinal followers and arranges the list alphabetically.