Use Alignment to create a Translation Memory for help content translations.

Alchemy CATALYST can create fully aligned Translations Memories from existing HTML documents or compiled CHM files. In most cases alignment can be automatic with little or no operator involvement. However, there are times when documents will need to be aligned by a professional translator.

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To align HTML documents, follows these steps:-

  1.  Insert your source HTML document into a Project TTK.

  2.  Right click the HTML document in the Project Navigator and select Alignment from the popup menu.

  3.  Specify the name of the HTML document that contains the translations you wish to align with.

  4. Each segment will be displayed in a list on the screen. A text icon (image52.gif) will be displayed adjacent to each segment. To align segments lick on image53.gif and drag it to it's corresponding translation segment. A connecting line will display on the screen indicating the alignment of each segment.

  5. Alchemy CATALYST can automatically align most file types based on an analysis of it's structure. Click on Next Match to allow Alchemy CATALYST calculate the alignment of each segment automatically.

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Documents can also be aligned by paragraphs rather than segments. To align your documents based on paragraph boundaries, select Paragraph Alignment on the Segmentation  dialog in Options.