Rediscovering America...

...or the next best thing: recovering original text from a Word file segmented in Wordfast.

Normally, this is done by simply grabbing the original file, but in this case, the client sent a table with two columns, one containing the Russian original and a blank column for the English translation. In the middle of work, I found a significant omission in the original, typed the omission, but forgot to save a "pristine" copy before translating it.

That probably makes no sense, but here's are the keys to the kingdom anyway:

Find what: \{0\>(*)\<*\{\>(*)\<0\}
(Use wildcards)
Replace with: \1
(Not Hidden)

Technically, the wildcarded string within last set of parens is not necessary, but it takes the translation and makes it available as '\2', should it be needed (to, say, quickly "clean" a segmented file without using Wordfast).

Cheers...

State of the plate...

Things were going pretty well, there, during the first half of the month, but during the second half of March, for reasons both good and bad, I'm looking at a fairly significant shortfall in "the making of the nut." What's worse, some of what I've invoiced for March has been done for clients who apparently have difficulty understanding their own payment terms.

As a result, I've completely overcommitted myself for the near term. I mean, I've just gone nuts, letting my bank account do my thinking for me.

To be fair, I did manage to say "no" to a job today, but that was for an proofreading job, which I am not inclined to do even on the best of days.

In other news, there was no update last night regarding the state of the Priority Mail package entrusted to the USPS. Hopefully, there'll be some better news tonight.

Cheers...