Uncharitable thoughts...
Nov. 15th, 2009 11:41 amPretty much all translation memory programs "chunk" text into segments using various rules (e.g., "stop at a period"). One almost ironclad rule of segmentation is "stop upon encountering a carriage return."
Every once in a while, you run into a Word document where the originator decided to insert carriage returns by hand, for whatever reason. Such documents are a pain to work with, but you have a fighting chance to get rid of them in Word, if not by search-and-replace, then at least manually, by having Word display the carriage returns as paragraph characters.
Not so in PowerPoint (at least, to the best of my knowledge). You can't make paragraph marks appear, nor can you search for them.
This makes working with loads of inserted carriage returns a royal pain, so much so, it's almost not worth using any tools, unless you first "edit" slides by guessing where potential carriage returns might be and then attempt to delete them by hand.
This adds considerably to the time required to process the document, as you might imagine, especially considering the large amount of text there is distributed on some of the slides in the presentation in work right now.
Grrr...
Every once in a while, you run into a Word document where the originator decided to insert carriage returns by hand, for whatever reason. Such documents are a pain to work with, but you have a fighting chance to get rid of them in Word, if not by search-and-replace, then at least manually, by having Word display the carriage returns as paragraph characters.
Not so in PowerPoint (at least, to the best of my knowledge). You can't make paragraph marks appear, nor can you search for them.
This makes working with loads of inserted carriage returns a royal pain, so much so, it's almost not worth using any tools, unless you first "edit" slides by guessing where potential carriage returns might be and then attempt to delete them by hand.
This adds considerably to the time required to process the document, as you might imagine, especially considering the large amount of text there is distributed on some of the slides in the presentation in work right now.
Grrr...