Trados: globally replace all soft spaces with hard spaces Thread poster: I_CH
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I_CH 
Local time: 01:22
German to Italian
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Hi,
does anybody if it possible to globally replace all soft spaces with hard spaces, e.g. all the "n. " with "n.^s", where ^s is the hard space, that you can set in Word for a replace, but apparently not in Trados 2022.
Many thanks in advance
| | | | Roy Oestensen
Denmark
Local time: 01:22
Member (2010)
English to Norwegian (Bokmal)
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| Replace ALL soft spaces with hard spaces? | Jun 20, 2023 |
I don't think you want to replace all soft spaces in a document with hard spaces. That will create trouble for you in the export. Take.for.instance.a.sentence.like.this. I don't know how to search for a character combination like n. plus space and replace it with hard space automatically, but you can search for n. and manually replace a soft space with a hard space by hitting CTR+Shift+space.
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:22
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| CleanUp Tasks | Jun 20, 2023 |
Replace spaces with non-breaking spaces, is that what you want?
CleanUp Tasks should be able to do this.
https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/23
More details here:
http://jessegood.github.io/translation/cleanuptool.html
Basically, install plug... See more Replace spaces with non-breaking spaces, is that what you want?
CleanUp Tasks should be able to do this.
https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/23
More details here:
http://jessegood.github.io/translation/cleanuptool.html
Basically, install plug-in, click on Cleanup Source from Batch Tasks menu, create new conversion file, click on "+" in top right, then in Search box put a space " " and the Replace box put [\u00A0] and click on the Regex checkbox, then click Save or Save As, then click Next until the wizard is complete.
Obviously you should try this on a test file first.
Dan
PS Here is an example, which simply replaces a double-width (two-byte) Japanese space with a single space:
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| | | | Jaime Oriard
Mexico
Local time: 17:22
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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| Normal Find & Replace | Jun 20, 2023 |
1. Enter a regular space in the "Find what:" field
2. Enter a non-breaking space in the "Replace with:" field
Note: To enter a non-breaking space, you can copy one from another application, if in Windows, you can Alt+0160, or you can use a character map app.
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Roy Oestensen
Denmark
Local time: 01:22
Member (2010)
English to Norwegian (Bokmal)
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| Sure about that? | Jun 20, 2023 |
Jaime Oriard wrote:
1. Enter a regular space in the "Find what:" field
2. Enter a non-breaking space in the "Replace with:" field
Note: To enter a non-breaking space, you can copy one from another application, if in Windows, you can Alt+0160, or you can use a character map app.
I copied a non-breaking space from Word into the Replace with: box to test this out, but even though I had invisible characters show, it seemed the spaces still were soft spaces. But perhaps I did something wrong, I don't know.
| | | | I_CH
Local time: 01:22
German to Italian
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TOPIC STARTER
Jaime Oriard wrote:
1. Enter a regular space in the "Find what:" field
2. Enter a non-breaking space in the "Replace with:" field
Note: To enter a non-breaking space, you can copy one from another application, if in Windows, you can Alt+0160, or you can use a character map app.
Hi Jaime, thanks a lot for your suggestion, which is in fact the simpliest and most straightforward. I have created a hard space in Trados and copy in the Replace box of Trados.
(Note to Roy: copying the hard space from Word does not work)
Thanks again
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