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To answer my own question, Lingo does not include a function for this, so I've put together a piece of SQL code that solves this problem. The script looks for translations the source segments of which are the same - in other words for different translations of the same thing. If more than one transl...

I have a large TM developed over the course of many years. We have recently done a revision of the translation of one of our larger projects, so some existing segment translations were edited. As a result, we now have many cases when the TM includes two variants of how to translate the same thing. I...

Good replies for me Since all of the usages of the style are within a <span> tag, I edited the style so that it is not generic (making .mystyle span.mystyle) and now, mc-hidden: hidden is working. Many thanks!

I have several styles that I would like to hide from the Styles sidebar in Flare. My understanding is that the way to go is adding mc-hidden: hidden; to the corresponding selector. Say I have this: .note { color: red; mc-hidden: hidden; } Nothing happens, the style is still present in the sidebar. W...

That sounds like a great advice, techwriter31! Just one thing - how do you apply conditions to what CSS files are used?

Thanks for the advice. Actually, I wanted to stick with system fonts since I've had trouble embedding fonts that are not bundled with windows in the PDF (is it possible, by the way?). After some trying, it seems the simplest option is the right one:

When we translate a Flare project from English to Japanese, the used font (Calibri) becomes unusable, since Calibri does not support Japanese characters, which means that it falls down to the system default for Japanese characters, which looks ugly. Is there any way to specify which font to use for ...

We have a project that we started translating in Lingo V9. Over the course of time, we decided to start using V10. Sadly, this also brought about some problems that we're unsure how to solve now. We are currently in the evaluation phase of V10, so I would like to find out if these are possible to so...

I have a Lingo V9 project with quite an extensive hierarchy and as a result, long file paths. I frequently encounter the "path too long" error when exporting the translated project to Flare. I know I could get rid of the problem by shortening my structure, but that's not really an option f...

Sometimes when I click into an empty cell for a segment translation, that is, I get TM suggestion that is relevant for the segment translation below the one I am currently translating. This happens irregularly and I have not been able to find any relation to the files I'm translating, the languages,...

For the record, I resolved the issue by updating to the most recent version of Windows 10. I confirm that a project that fails to build on previous Windows versions (even non-updated W10) because of the path length gets built on updated Windows 10, which does extend the restriction regarding the pat...

Hi, I have a Flare project with a somewhat extensive folder structure - however, it builds/publishes just fine. Several weeks back, I ceated a Lingo project based on this Flare project and translated it. Now, when I hit the "Export" button to export the content into a translated Flare proj...

That is an excellet advice, thank you!

Hi, I have a Flare A project which imports another Flare project B (flare project B acts as a repo of topics and mini TOCs shared across multiple projects). Project B is kind of big and it is not fully translated yet. I imported project B into project A because of just a few topics (let's say 20), h...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I really need both languages present in the output. There are several use-cases for this, I'll describe one of them. Imagine you can speak English and you customer, who is, let's say Japanese, cannot. So far, all the communication had to be translated or interpreted - emai...

I have a project in English in Flare, which I would like to translate in Lingo so that the translation does NOT replace the original text as usual, but so that it is added below the translation on a per-paragraph level, as in this example: Hello, world. This is a sample paragraph. Hallo Welt. Dies i...

Hi, I have a very, very large topic (html file), almost 13 MB of text. I found out that if the file has more than 114985 lines (not kidding), the topic will simply be skipped without any message when building the target. Does anybody know if there's a way how to get pass this? Obviously, besides the...

I'm using Lingo for translation.

George, were you able to resolve this somehow? I'm also interested in learning how to do this.

Hi, we have a large documentation project with hundreds of files. About 95% of the content is translated already, but every now and then, there's a segment or two in a file that are not translated at all. Question: Is it possible to view only the untranslated segments (either in all files or just fi...

Hi, I have a product-specific documentation project, which is importing some topics from a Common project (a project including some general, not product-specific chapters used across our documentation projects). It's a simple import of few selected HTM topics. If I change the content of a topic in t...

Also, on a related note: if the HTMs/Topics you're importing are using images, you might have a problem importing only the ones related to the imported topics. I have found that the easiest way to import only the images used in the imported topics is to: 1. select the Topic HTMs to import 2. Select ...

Also, on a related note: if the HTMs/Topics you're importing are using images, you might have a problem importing only the images used in the imported topics. I have found that the easiest way to import only the images used in the imported topics is to: 1. select the Topic HTMs to import 2. Select t...

Thanks This is what I feared I will have to do

Yeah, thanks too. I'm curious to see how this will turn up in a month or two.

Hi all, what I'm trying to accomplish is simple really. I want screenshots in our manuals be a div with centered image and a centered caption right below it. To do that, I have created a snippet with a placeholder image which I wanted to insert into the topic in Contributor and then to convert it to...