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Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | Mac

CafeTran Trainer — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:13:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Mac

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

But writing an AHK script like the one Michael suggests is simpler.[/quote]

To make this complete: Mac users can use the solution posted here. Of course, keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to the quotation marks.

Just tested this solution for Trados 2022 in Fusion: since Windows intercepts the keyboard shortcuts, the nice palette cannot be used there.

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | Holdkey etc.

Samuel Murray — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:16:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Holdkey etc.

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
I generally recommend using a special tool like HoldKey to insert spatial characters, which works in any program on your computer. [/quote]
Yes, so according to [url= [url removed] ]this character map[/url], to insert German quotes using Holdkey would require you to press-and-hold Q, then type 8 for the opening quote, or press-and-hold Q, then type 7 for the closing quote. Or with the Pro version (which costs $7), you can press Win+Shift+" for the opening quote and Win+Shift+} for the closing quote.

I use [url= [url removed] ]an AutoIt script[/url] to insert smart quotes. I've also added the German quote to my script. But writing an AHK script like the one Michael suggests is simpler.

[Edited at 2022-10-02 09:17 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | My approach

CafeTran Trainer — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:05:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: My approach

I tried many ways to insert/adjust quotation marks during the translation phase, but finally settled on using a regular expression during quality control to get all the quotation marks right.

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | Eventually found the QuickInsert menu, too

Sebastian Witte — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 08:05:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Sebastian Witte
Post title: Eventually found the QuickInsert menu, too

Thanks to Darius' post, here is a screenshot of where you can find it. It is quite prominently placed, actually.

[Edited at 2022-10-02 08:06 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | @Sebastian

Matthias Brombach — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 07:52:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Matthias Brombach
Post title: @Sebastian

The solution could be „Carlinga“, a hotkey tool for Windows (still running in W10). Have a look at an earlier post on proz:

[url removed] #1904854

I don't know where to download that tool today, but you may contact me by PM and I'm happy to send it to you.

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | Keyboard codes

Darius Sciuka — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:53:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Darius Sciuka
Post title: Keyboard codes

My mistake, forgot to add leading zeros, it should be Alt+0132 and Alt 0147. It is fixed now in my above post.

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | Try Ctrl+Shift+4

Stepan Konev — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 18:33:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Stepan Konev
Post title: Try Ctrl+Shift+4

Select a word and press Ctrl+Shift+4.

Oh, sorry... It was already mentioned above.

[Edited at 2022-10-01 18:37 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | I received some additional help from the RWS Community

Sebastian Witte — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 18:26:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Sebastian Witte
Post title: I received some additional help from the RWS Community

You are to switch on SmartQuotes under AutoCorrect in Options. However, I think for editing this might not work. You can also use the QuickInsert menu to put the German quotes in, they say.

By the way, those keyboard shortcuts (see above) did not work on my computer. Ctrl + Shift + 4 did work in the end though, when I highlighted the whole word.

[Edited at 2022-10-01 18:36 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | What I need is to be able to write, for example, „dog”.

Sebastian Witte — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:20:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Sebastian Witte
Post title: What I need is to be able to write, for example, „dog”.

Extra Keys can do it using Copy and Paste.

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | There is a button for that

Darius Sciuka — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:12:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Darius Sciuka
Post title: There is a button for that

You can find the Apply German Quotes icon on the Home - QuickInsert ribbon. The default shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+4. It puts a pair of German quotation marks around your selection or around the cursor if nothing is selected.

Windows character codes are Alt+0132 and Alt+0147.

[Edited at 2022-10-01 23:51 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | 99 66

Sebastian Witte — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:03:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Sebastian Witte
Post title: 99 66

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

So, these two?
„“ [/quote]

No, actually, I mean 99 66. I can't even reproduce them using the Windows character map.

[Edited at 2022-10-01 16:14 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | So

Samuel Murray — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:58:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: So

So, these two?
„“

If you already have quotes, can't you just use find/replace? (Or did you use straight quotes?).

[Edited at 2022-10-01 15:00 GMT]

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio | HoldKey or AutoHotkey script

Michael Beijer — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:54:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: HoldKey or AutoHotkey script

I generally recommend using a special tool like HoldKey to insert spatial characters, which works in any program on your computer.

see: [url removed]

Or an AutoKey script, which is how I currently do it.

Michael

Inserting German quotation marks in Studio

Sebastian Witte — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 14:38:00 +0000

Forum: Trados support
Topic: Inserting German quotation marks in Studio
Poster: Sebastian Witte

Hi,

To meet my customer's QA requirements for the return package, I would like to know how to insert German quotation marks in Trados Studio 2022.

Not simple ones - double ones, i.e. „dog". Even here, I'm having problems with it, as you can see.

Best regards,

Sebastian Witte

[Edited at 2022-10-01 14:40 GMT]