Configure Segment Actions

You can configure segment action behaviors in TXLF Editor.

To configure segment actions:

  1. Select Preferences from the Wordfast drop-down menu.
  2. On the Preferences dialog, click Segment under General Preferences.
  3. Select a segment option.

    Option

    Action

    Next/Previous Segment action leverages next/previous segment

    Enables or disables the writing and leveraging action of the command.

    Open last edited segment when opening a file

    Goes to the last segment edited when a file is opened.

    Leverage the first opened segment on click

    Provides TM leverage for the first open segment when you open a TXLF file for translation.

    Capitalize the first letter of the target segment (Except Asian Languages)

    Converts translated segments to sentence case, but not for Asian languages.

    Enable Smart Quotes

    Activates both smart quote and smart punctuation features.

    • Smart quotes — Changes the quotation marks to smart quotes, depending on the target language.

    • Smart punctuation — Changes white space and punctuation mark elements to those appropriate for the target language, with the exception of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages and those that read from right-to-left (RTL), such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu.

    Note:   

    The white space group includes spaces, non-breaking spaces, and white space representations: the mid-dot and donut. The white space group also includes cases where the exclamation point or question mark exists in isolation at the beginning of the segment, sentence, or paragraph.

    Skip Unedited 100% Matches

    Enables or disables skipping over 100% matched segments.

    Skip Unedited Context Matches

    Enables or disables skipping over those segments with context matching.