Tags and invisible characters go hand-in-hand when dealing with technical translations. All CAT Tools support them – some better than others. In this article I’ll provide some background information, and explain how and why you should take advantage of them.
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Computer-Assisted Translation Tools, or CAT Tools, are specialized computer programs that, as the name implies, aid the translator during translation activities. Nowadays, they’re available in suites rather than separate programs that communicate with each other, so you could think of them as a kind of integrated translation environment.
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In the Translation Industry, the most frequently used method of quantifying the work involved is word counting. You should know, though, that there are also other measurement units such as lines and pages. But if the project allows it, you’ll nearly always see a word count mentioned in the project’s details.
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Translation 101 