Configuring Text Tools

The Text Tools preferences offer the following configuration options for the text editor:

The Auto-Suggest option populates suggestions based on source content, such as numbers, URLs, and proper names. It can also suggest terms for the glossary, Translation Memory (TM) matches, and Sub-segment TM matches.
The Smart Quote option automatically changes the quotation marks to smart quotes when the user presses the quotation mark keys on the keyboard, depending on the target language.

To configure the text editor options navigate to Preferences then Text Tools as described below.

Open Wordfast Pro and click Preferences under Options.
The overall preferences setup panel appears.
Click Text Tools.
The options for the text editor appear.

Figure 1. Preferences—Text Tools
Check Enable Auto-Suggest, to enable Auto-Suggest.

With Auto-Suggest enabled, there are four options under Enable suggestions for:
1. Click Source to enable suggestions for sources of the segment: numbers and capitalized words only.
2. Click Terminology to enable suggestions for terms from the glossary.
3. Click TM to enable suggestions for translations from the TM.
4. TM Sub-Segment to enable suggestions for parts of segments from the TM. For example, if the following segment was in the TM: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water."
Select Enable Smart Quotes to enable automatic conversion of standard quotes to smart quotes (quotation marks).

Depending on the target language, Wordfast Pro automatically changes the quotation marks used when the user presses the quotation mark keys on the keyboard.